Posted on 10/19/2014 5:08:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
I suggest always going about in full body armor, then.
The taxi service from the airport to downtown in New Orleans is quite good, based on a recent experience. Nice new clean Toyota minivans are the norm, based on our ride and the other cabs at the airport cab stand.
Great point, Pappy, and it is a concern. There was a case out of Atlanta, I believe, where an Uber driver was picking up women and then groping them. He was eventually caught, but it's been raised as a concern by several entities, not the least of which was the cab unions.
If I live or die, all that is up to God. He is the one that put me here.
The PUC here in Pittsburgh bashed Uber hard. Guess Uber didn’t pay the cronies enough.
Pfl
There probably are sex offender uber operators. Do you think there are no sex offender cab drivers? If the prospect worries you stay out of both. But the way it isn’t hard to become a sex offender today.
We have used airbnb all over the US and Europe. As you might expect, the accomodations vary from great to adequate. We saved a lot of money and met interesting local people. I could bore you with lots of interesting stories.
Just remember your are a paying guest in somebody’s home and in some cases you have to work with them regarding scheduling, and things going on in their lives too.
Well worth it.
What is your preference in sex offenders? Are you looking for a certain bent?
Just curious. Can you get along with Social Security and Medicare?
“Great point, Pappy, and it is a concern. There was a case out of Atlanta, I believe, where an Uber driver was picking up women and then groping them. He was eventually caught, but it’s been raised as a concern by several entities, not the least of which was the cab unions.”
The thing is, every Uber transaction goes trough Uber’s web site. Every driver and every car is matched to ever customer. They are not just driving around looking for fares. A customer has to create an Uber account (like an Amazon account). There is no anonymous cash option. Drivers are dispatched by Uber, based on proximity to the ride request. If a driver gropes a customer, all the customer has to do is notify Uber, and Uber has the driver’s info. Uber can also cut the driver off for further business. Uber also knows the driver’s location (via smartphone), if they are working.
Mob bosses and their installed politicians HATE independent business!
Glad you had a good experience with them, but I’ve not heard a lot that’s positive.
Here in Albuquerque someone that was an Uber drive had the outside mirror broken off his car door and the same passenger puked all over the back seat. He gets nothing for the damage unless he takes the passenger to court. For what, a $40 fare?
In Denver, I read that a concert goer took an Uber car to a concert at Red Rocks and found out upon arrival that it was over $200! Uber said when there’s a big event on and vehicles are in short supply, there’s a multiplication factor that gets entered into the cost. The passenger said they knew nothing about it.
Reviews on Yelp for the Denver area are pretty bad. http://www.yelp.com/biz/uber-denver-3
The PUC here in Pittsburgh bashed Uber hard. Guess Uber didn’t pay the cronies enough.
“In Denver, I read that a concert goer took an Uber car to a concert at Red Rocks and found out upon arrival that it was over $200! Uber said when there’s a big event on and vehicles are in short supply, there’s a multiplication factor that gets entered into the cost. The passenger said they knew nothing about it.”
You do have to play by the rules. I took a cab once in NYC because they were at 4x, but only because I bothered reading the terms. The price you pay is what they tell you...they could not last very long if they were multiplying promised prices. It really isn’t the driver’s fault that Colorado legalized weed.
Here's the story to which I was referring, it was in Orlando:
A caution to potential drivers and hosts are in order as well. The Uber and Airbnb business model is actually akin to that of a casino — “the law of large numbers”, and you as the driver are like one of the gamblers.
They have no stake whatsoever in making sure that any individual driver or host makes a lot of money, makes a good living at it, or even covers his own expenses. They make it up on volume. And, like a casino, Uber (especially) makes a lot of noise about the three or four “winners” who have done very well, while offering very little, in fact, refusing to offer, objective numbers on how the “average” driver can expect to do.
The matter of many Uber drivers pocketing less than minimum wage is for another post.
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If you’re an Uber driver, you have an “app” from Uber on your smartphone that tells the big Uber computer in the sky where you are. That puts a dot on a map that potential passengers can see. They click on the dot and you get a notice to go to where they are.
You can turn your app on and off as you wish, so you can be a driver all day long if you like or just in the evenings and so on.
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