I agree 100%. The tortured development process of Toyota’s last several sports cars (LF-A, FR-S, now Supra) is really shocking for such a major automaker. And for what? Cars that win some sort of sports car moral argument, but miss the mark in many other ways and end up being overpriced compared to the competition.…

Did this driver have the child locks engaged to prevent her from opening the rear doors? A real Uber driver wouldn’t do that - too much work to have to get out and open the door for every passenger. If the child locks weren’t engaged, she wasn’t trapped in the car at all. My car locks the doors automatically when the…

They spent 3 generations creating the V brand, and now they go ahead and devalue it in one quick presentation. Now they expect us to wait for some future unknown performance models, with a new nomenclature to learn. Every recent Cadillac introduction has come with a “but, but we might have more coming for this (sad…

This is a huge unnecessary expense. Virtually every automaker is already working on it, as well as Google, Apple, etc. Uber could easily sit back and buy an off the shelf system, only needing to customize the software for commercial use. Then again, every automaker thinks they will be a ride share company in a few…

Is it even worth bothering to worry about the rollover safety on the roof of a 20 year old Jeep? Obviously it’s NOT GOOD. It never was, even when now. So fix it so it looks good, and if you’re nervous, throw a roll cage on the inside.

With and extra $2000 a month coming in, the correct answer is to keep the current car for a year, and bank that $24,000 and pay cash for the next car, not to finance it and waste money with a double digit interest rate. Should anyone really waste $7-10,000 just in interest expense for a high interest rate auto loan??…

You’d like to be able to think that uber isn’t actively trying to mislead drivers and passengers. But that is what they are doing. 

Yeah, the surge adjustment is just Uber feeling guilty for such a large gap between the fare and your earnings. That doesn’t happen every time, though.

You only get that surge amount on that one trip. Any trip after that you may or may not get any surge. To make sure you are getting surge, set the app to log you off after the surge trip you are doing. That way you can check the map before you accept your next trip and make sure you are getting surge. 

Few drivers actually do that. It’s pointless really, when drivers can just get another trip anyway. My point is is that drivers used to set the final price just by virtue of doing the driving, which is what makes them independent contractors. Now with upfront pricing, the driver does not set the price, making them…

Some context about flat surge:

It seems like it would be fairly simple for Uber and Lyft to check all the VINs for open recalls, and notify drivers. They choose not to. Drivers themselves may not be aware of the recalls.

Prior to the advent of Upfront Pricing, drivers agreed to charge Uber’s per mile and per minute rates, but by virtue of controlling the route to the destination, ended up determining the final price of the trip. Drivers then remitted a fixed percentage of the total fare to Uber as a service fee. Now, however, Uber…

Partly because of changing regulations, and changing IIHS whims on which aspect of safety they want to push next.

People always talk about the ride share industry as if the fares need to stay the same or go lower, and then try to contort everything around that. It’s not going to happen. When you try to put more people in the car, then soon enough you’ll need them to meet an a common location for efficiency’s sake, and then you…

Where will autonomous cars park that they won’t be in the way or on someone’s property when not in use? Autonomy doesn’t solve this issue. These cars will end up driving around aimlessly just like Uber drivers do now

I call BS on #1. Consumers are not ready and willing to embrace autonomous cars. Some lazy shits who can’t bear to put down Instagram - sure. But most people don’t have confidence in the tech yet. That, plus many many people are still too ignorant to pair their phones to the bluetooth, so how are we expecting that…

That’s the “don’t taste my food” button. It adds $1 to the delivery fee.

As an UberX driver, I pray for a “quiet mode” that I can select. Other than to say hello and confirm the destination, then to say goodbye and thank you, I typically don’t speak to my passengers. If they are quiet, I sometimes forget they are back there until they sneeze. HOWEVER, some passengers insist on talking to…

That’s fine for you. But what is happening is that Uber and Lyft are overcharging you for that convenience.