MIT study that found low pay for Uber drivers to be revisited

Re:MIT study that found low pay for Uber drivers to be revis... by rdlecler1 on Sunday March 04, 2018 @11:01AM (#16515131)

Here’s the thing. (1) Uber is not a full time job for a lot of people. They have a couple of hours here or there that fits within their existing schedule. I don’t doubt that it’s helped put food on the table for a lot of families. Unfortunately In a few years driverless cars will take this opportunity away (2) Uber drovers are rational market participants. If they were really averaging less than $4/hour then this wouldn’t be attractive to driver given our current low unemployment rate.

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Re:MIT study that found low pay for Uber drivers to be revis... by poulsbohemian on Sunday March 04, 2018 @11:47AM (#16515323)

>"Uber is not a full time job for a lot of people"

I don't know this to be true without seeing a citation. In Seattle and Maui (two places I've used a car service recently), it has seemed to me at least the Lyft drivers I've encountered were all full-time drivers.

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Re:MIT study that found low pay for Uber drivers to be revis... by Someone on Sunday March 04, 2018 @04:31PM (#16516888)

Could be because, when you use the service, you aren’t sampling drivers uniformly. For example, only 10% of drivers could do it full time, but 90% of all rides could have a full time driver.

(Numbers for illustration only; they aren’t likely to reflect Uber’s population of drivers)

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Re:MIT study that found low pay for Uber drivers to be revis... by closeparen on Sunday March 04, 2018 @09:31PM (#16518282)

I've heard (not verified) that Lyft's incentive schemes contain cliffs that encourage/select for driving full-time to a much greater degree than Uber.

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Re:MIT study that found low pay for Uber drivers to be revis... by davecraige on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @12:00AM (#16526967)

48% of all Uber driving is done by full time drivers accorinding to their own company data

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Re:MIT study that found low pay for Uber drivers to be revis... by nicholas73 on Sunday March 04, 2018 @11:38AM (#16515289)

I talked to one guy who drives for Uber just for his hour long commute. If he was going to drive anyway, why not have someone else pay for it?

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Re:MIT study that found low pay for Uber drivers to be revis... by strangegecko on Sunday March 04, 2018 @11:42AM (#16515305)

How does this work? He can't choose the passenger's destination.

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Re:MIT study that found low pay for Uber drivers to be revis... by nicholas73 on Monday March 05, 2018 @03:37PM (#16524154)

You can tell Uber where you want to end up, and they will route you customers going that location.

Also, I'm astounded at least two people bothered to downvote my factual reporting.

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Re:MIT study that found low pay for Uber drivers to be revis... by eropple on Sunday March 04, 2018 @05:47PM (#16517274)

I believe you can, twice a day.

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