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Saturday, June 20, 2015

Stop Driving For Uber

Monday, June 15, 2015

Uber Service Sucks Compared to Lyft

Uber, the ridesharing service, sucks. They portray themselves as a fiesty little start-up shaking the foundations of modern business - always an heroic narrative - but there's really no difference between the creeping corporate evil of, say, Google or Monsanto and that perpetrated by Uber.

So what is Uber? For those not yet in the loop, Uber is a 'ridesharing' service, started in San Francisco and branching out all over the world. The business's central conceit is that, unlike regular taxi drivers, Uber drivers are not pros, they're just schmoes like you and me who happen to be going somewhere and are willing to take others along. For a price.

This is the lie. Uber drivers do not go anywhere, they sit behind the wheel and drive others places they themselves are not visiting. Which, if you look it up, is what taxi drivers do.

A 'rideshare' would be if I were going to an outlet mall and agreed to take others along. I'd get out of the car, do my shopping, gather everyone up at the end of the day and go home. Sharing a ride to a common destination. If I pile people in my car, drop them off at the outlet mall for a fee, then go find others to take somewhere else, I'd be a taxi driver. Which is what Uber drivers are.

Why does that mean Uber sucks?

Because Uber knows it's a taxi service, it's calling itself a 'rideshare' service to skirt the laws and ordinances where it operates. The owners think that as long as they don't call themselves a taxi service they don't have to comply with any taxi service regulations. But the name does not make the business, the practice does.

If I call myself a 'curandero' and start performing surgery, no amount of protesting on my part will keep me from being prosecuted for impersonating a physician. If I were to call myself an 'alchemist' instead of a meth dealer, the title would make me no less a criminal. By the same token, if an Uber driver takes you from one point in the city to another and you have to pay him for the privilege, then that driver is a taxi driver. No matter how loudly Uber insists otherwise.

The worst part of this juvenile misdirection is that Uber contends its drivers do not have to have commercial licenses, or commercial insurance, or criminal background checks, etc. etc. etc. They're putting their drivers and their customers at a very real risk of injury and death. Because it's a 'rideshare' and not a taxi.

Uber sucks

How is this emblematic of larger corporate evil?

Uber is lying, they know they're lying, and they're challenging local governments to catch them at it and stop them. Which is what giant evil corporations do. In the past corporations have tried to keep their evil secret, like tobacco companies making more addictive cigarettes, or corporate agriculture companies patenting seeds so they can charge farmers in perpetuity, even when farmers only bought seeds once (a lifetime seed subscription fee, as it were).

The big game changer for corporate evil, though, was Google. Those guys were the ones who made brazen audacity a marketing tactic. For instance, Google took it upon themselves to digitize entire libraries to make the contents available online. The problem with that effort was Google did not own the rights to those books, and didn't notify the authors of their intentions. They just did it, legality, ethics, and morality be damned. Same thing with Google street view, Google glass, and on and on. Their business model is to ask forgiveness rather than permission. After the damage is already done, of course.

The case can be made that Google does its thing in legal gray areas (not really), where the technology is new and the rules are not set (still, not really). Just a bunch of nerds trying to change the world and stepping on stodgy old men's toes along the way.

The problem is Google infected others with its 'laws be damned' attitude. People like the owners and backers of Uber, who are not operating in any new tech areas, they're putting butts in seats and taking them from point A to point B. They'll say it's different because they have an app for it, but that's not even a weak argument, it's an excuse for flouting laws.

Uber sucks

Most of all though, Uber sucks because it's clearly the vanguard for more of its kind. Assholes who think that they can do whatever they want, as long as they get away with it for long enough to make money. Uber will go out of business, that's an inevitability and a very short-term reality, but the damage it's done will inspire others to imitate it, and make their malfeasance everyone else's problem.

Seriously, Uber Sucks
Seriously, Uber Sucks
Seriously, Uber Sucks

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Uber Cancels Lyft

Uber and Lyft are battling for customers looking for rides via smartphones, but maybe not everyone is fighting fairly.

Lyft reports that Uber employees have ordered and canceled more than 5,000 Lyft rides since October, according to Lyft's data.

"And it's not just a rogue employee or two,". "Lyft claims 177 Uber employees around the country have booked and canceled rides in that time frame."

With both services, users have to create a profile to order rides on demand with the company's app. Canceled rides can tie up drivers, causing them to lose time and money driving to fake customers.

Lyft "there was nothing to suggest" that the scam was commissioned by Uber's corporate office or that it was even aware of the canceled ride requests.

A statement from Uber, posted by The New York Times, called Lyft's claims "baseless and simply untrue." It goes on to suggest that Uber has been a victim of nearly 13,000 fraudulent trip requests by Lyft drivers and employees:

"But instead of providing the long list of questionable tactics that Lyft has used over the years, we are focusing on building and maintaining the best platform for both consumers and drivers."

This isn't the first time Uber has been accused of using such tactics. Gawker reported in January that Uber employees were scheduling and canceling rides with New York competitor Gett. (Gawker cites screenshots "showing multiple instances of Uber staffers using dummy Gett accounts for the sole purpose of canceling rides as diversions.")

Both Uber and Lyft continue to seek out new markets (they were approved to operate in Virginia this month), though not every city or country is welcoming.

This startup battle "is lopsided," the Wall Street Journal reports: Uber "operates in nearly three times as many markets as Lyft" and has "four times as many employees and five times the amount of funding from investors."

Sunday, May 31, 2015

District Attorneys Call Uber, Lyft, And Sidecar A Continuing Threat To Consumers

Bad news hit the desks of ride-share company execs this week: The district attorneys of S.F. and L.A. have teamed up to investigate Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar for a handful of practices that they assert are in violation of state law. It's the latest in a series of hurdles the companies have faced in gaining legal recognition for providing the service of taxis while insisting that they are not really taxis.

As the Chronicle and others are reporting, the two DAs' offices sent the letters on September 24th promising injunctive relief and civil penalties if the companies did not change certain policies and practices "quickly." At issue are several problems with safety and fairness that have mostly been talked about before, and the DAs call these four issues in particular "a continuing threat to consumers and the public."

The case of UberX driver Daveea Whitmire — the 28-year-old driver with a criminal record (including prison time) who's been charged in an assault on a passenger last November — plays a starring role in this current kerfuffle. S.F. DA George Gascon says he wants all three companies to "remove all statements from their mobile apps, websites and other publications that imply their background checks reveal drivers’ complete criminal history," calling such claims "patently untrue." (You may recall that Uber contracted with a company called Hireaseto do their background checks, and that company either failed to check on Whitmire or somehow missed his previous felonies.)
There's the much discussed issue of Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar's lacking the proper licenses to pick up and drop off passengers at airports.
Recently launched carpool options, including UberPool, are illegal as we heard a few weeks ago, and the DAs are saying these have to cease immediately. Under state law, the cost of all taxi fares must be split evenly between passengers sharing a single ride unless the company is a "passenger stage corporation" like SuperShuttle. UberPool allows users to share rides for cheaper fares, however the fares are not divvied up to add up to an equivalent single fare.
Also, like normal taxis, ride-share companies have to be "regulated by the state’s Department of Food and Agriculture’s weights and measures division, which regulates everything from groceries to gas stations to taxis to ensure that customers are getting the amount of food or gas or number of taxi miles they’re paying for."

There's nothing in this latest round of letters relating to the ongoing issue of ride-share drivers' and their insurance, but that seems to be getting worked out at the state level.

Sidecar CEO Sunil Paul shared the letter he received with the Wall Street Journal, saying, "We're frankly disappointed and a little baffled that there would be all of this pushback."

In a statement, Gascon says, "We value innovation and new modes of providing service to the public. However, we need to make sure the safety and well-being of consumers are adequately protected in the process.”

Have fun at that meeting with the Weights and Measures Division, kids. I hear they're a blast.

Friday, May 15, 2015

Why Uber Drivers Say It Sucks to Be Them

Uber drives organized their first protest this week in Los Angeles over what sound like some pretty raw working conditions. A new union of Uber drivers (California App-Based Drivers Association) has just joined a Teamsters chapter and is speaking out against new fare reductions (which now make Uber cheaper than LA's buses), a huge increase in the commissions taken out by Uber, a "misleading tipping policy," and the company's rating system, which gives all the weight to reviews from riders, regardless of how horrible they may be, reports Neon Tommy. Here's a list of working conditions the Uber drivers want to change:

· "Uber used to take only a 5 percent commission from drivers' total fares. That number has now risen to 25 percent," says Joseph De Wolf, an Uber Black driver who is also also cofounder and executive committee member of the new union. (Uber also takes a dollar off the top of every ride as a "safe ride fee.")

· That is pretty nuts on its own, but it's also been coupled with a hefty fare cut. According to DeWolf, in December 2013, UberX (the least expensive Uber service) charged $2.40 a mile, with a base rate of $4; now the rate's just $1.10 a mile, with a base rate of eight cents.

That's especially painful considering that, as independent contractors, drivers have to pay for their own gas and car-related expenses. Eighty cents of gas is not going to get anyone anywhere.
· The company's rating system, which has riders rate drivers, uses one- to five-star grading. Drivers whose average dips below 4.7 stars get a warning email and are deactivated until they take a class about improving their rating; if their rating goes below a 4.4 after the class, they're permanently deactivated, which amounts to being fired.

· This is probably a well-intentioned attempt to hold drivers to high standards, but the effect is often that drivers who are asked to do potentially unsafe things (like, say, fit eight people into a car) are worried that if they don't do what their fare wants, it could result in them being fired.

· Drivers also take serious issue with the impression that Uber gives users about tipping. As one Uber driver put it, the company "brainwashes the public, saying the tip is included. It's never been included."

Uber, for its part, says it's reducing fares for a really good reason. "We just want to be the biggest company in the world, whatever we need to do to find more clients," a general manager with Uber said.

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

How to Delete Uber Account

It's been a rough week for Uber. First, private comments were made public. Then"God View" was revealed. Finally, Ashton Kutcher, an Uber investor, took to Twitter to throw-in his two and a half cents.

The combination of recent events have forced many to proclaim they'll never use the service again. Simply deleting the app from your phone will eliminate it as an option the next time you're in need of a ride, but your account will remain active. To complete your boycott, you'll also want to delete your Uber account.

Deleting your account isn't an automated process. Here's what you need to do:

Visit Uber's support site.
Fill in the required fields with your Uber account info. Be sure to put "Cancel my Uber account" or a variation of it in the subject line.
In the body of the message, provide the rest of your account information (name, phone number).
Select your Uber city.
Send.

After a few days, you'll receive a reply indicating your account has been canceled. You can delete the app from your phone at any time, or wait until you receive a response from support confirming your account has been closed.

Keep in mind, however, just because your account is canceled doesn't mean Uber has deleted your personal information. In fact, section 8 of its privacy policy clearly states it will keep your info (including payment information) until it determines it's no longer needed for business purposes. Whenever that is.

Friday, May 1, 2015

Why Uber Sucks

I hate driving for Uber.

Not so much because of the lies they tell before you sign up about how much money you will make. Not even because of their douchebag logic that you will somehow make more money by earning less per ride after their fare cuts. I hate Uber because of the minority of a**hole/bitch riders.

One bitch said "Umm, is there any water in this vehicle?"

Yes, I believe that there is some in the car's radiator. It is mixed with the refrigerant ethylene glycol, which is highly toxic and may cause instant death if swallowed. Shall I try to get some out for you?"

Yeah, I really am a free mobile 7-Eleven. Free water, snacks and treats, my ass. Do I go into a 7-Eleven and say to the clerk that

I want a free bottle of water and gum and, oh yeah, when you've done that you can drive me downtown in exchange for $2.40?

No, I do not. I'm not like other Uber drivers out there who gives out water for 5 stars rating.

Uber Sucks.

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