It is currently only available to users of its luxury Uber Black services, costing the passenger extra.
Leave it to venture capital to try to make profits off people wanting their driver to shut up.
Uber has been rising their prices enough that now they are nearly at price parity with taxi cabs which, at least around where I live, are notorious for price gouging. At this point there is little reason pick Uber or Lyft.
Currently passengers can use the app to rate conversational skills, so a driver wishing to increase his score may deliberately try to make small talk.
That sounds bloody awful.
We take a cab home from the airport every time. It’s never more than $8-10 USD more and they have an App called: Curb. So, seeing pricing and paying via the app is just as easy as any ride share.
Gee, it’s almost like they deliberately set their prices too low at the start to bankrupt the competition, then they jack up the prices. Tale as old as time.
That’s usually how it goes for me. I greet them, they confirm where I’m going, and then complete silence as it should be. I love it.
Fuck Uber. Use local taxis.
Local taxis need to step up their game.
You need to go 4 miles? That’ll be $38. Rush hour traffic fee an extra $1.50 per minute. Oops, I turned down a road with construction and just one lane; too bad the wet tarmac on either side traps you in here. Your total is $68.30. Cash only. ATM stops an extra $25 for up to a sixty-second stop, then $5 each 30 second wait.
(there’s a reason why nobody uses taxis anymore)
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“honey some random just got into the backseat and wants to go to the sports bar”
“just don’t acknowledge his presence and he will get out at the nearest stop”
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So defensive over a joke. Calm down a bit, mmkay? I can see you’re about to pop a blood vessel from all the way over here…
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