Re:Uber ordered to pay $1.1M to blind woman refused rides
by eloff on Monday April 05, 2021 @04:50PM
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I've nearly missed flights twice because of uber drivers canceling on me - 10-15 min after accepting the ride In Columbus, Ohio and Panama. If you've ever tried to get taxis in Panama you know they're worse though.
If I'm going to take uber to the airport, I'm careful now to leave an extra 30 min over the two hours I would normally plan for.
Re:Uber ordered to pay $1.1M to blind woman refused rides
by ALittleLight on Monday April 05, 2021 @04:29PM
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I got off a bus once, at night, by mistake, in what seemed like a very bad part of town. I was waiting for the next bus to carry me away but became uncomfortable with my surroundings and so tried to get an Uber to come first. I had four or five cancel on me immediately after getting assigned and wound up having to wait for the bus anyway. I've never experienced that before or since with Uber.
Re:Uber ordered to pay $1.1M to blind woman refused rides
by saddlerustle on Monday April 05, 2021 @05:19PM
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Uber doesn't punish drivers for cancelling anymore because it kept being used as an argument that drivers are employees, not contractors.
Re:Uber ordered to pay $1.1M to blind woman refused rides
by darrylb42 on Monday April 05, 2021 @05:08PM
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Taxi's do the same thing. Wouldn't come to the location I was in, hung up, told us we were in a bad neighborhood and shouldn't be there. Eventually the bus came, we didn't want to wait 60 minutes with luggage.
Re:Uber ordered to pay $1.1M to blind woman refused rides
by sn_master on Saturday April 10, 2021 @08:09PM
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back few years ago, entering the destination was optional, and I had people cancel on me after knowing the destination.
now it doesn't make sense because they know where you're going before they accept.
some have told me that if they reject too many rides the algorithm punishes them.
I see this complaint all the time and I truly can't wrap my mind around it based on my own experience. The difference between yellow cabs and Ubers is night and day. I've had countless cabs drive away and refuse to pick me up because they didn't like where I was going, and that's never once happened with Uber (I'm sure it happens some behind the scenes but once I get matched with a driver it's very reliable).
There's even an entire industry in NYC of "gypsy cabs" in some of the outer boroughs, because the limited number of medallioned yellow cabs never go out there since it's not profitable enough.