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Well this morning was supposed to begin with me waking up early and heading into Seattle but I was up late with the wife so I woke up at my regular 6:30AM.

Decided to turn the app on during my regular drive to work to see if anything popped up.

By the time I hit exit 18 on 405, I got pinged.

1. Kirkland to Downtown Bellevue.
2. Immediately after dropping off in Downtown Bellevue I get a pick up 2 blocks away to Factoria.
3. Factoria person dropped off, I just park my car and I get a ping 3 min away to deep Redmond.
4. Drop off in deep Redmond to get an immediate ping to go from deep Redmond to Microsoft.

By this time it was 8:30 and I was close to my work office so I turned off the app. Made $34.21 in approximately 1.5 hours of work or $22.80 per hour. Not bad. We'll see how the evening treats me.


Are you able to see start/stop point of the customers before accepting? Are you able to accept trips that are only on your way to where you're going anyway?

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Wed Aug 24, 2016 8:55 am
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It shows the pick up location and how far away they are but it does not show destination. Could be close could be far, you never know. You could of course cancel if you REALLY aren't happy with where the customer wants to go.

There is a destination filter setting. You're allowed to use it 2x per day. Say you're done ubering for the day and are headed back home to the East Side from Seattle. You can turn on the filter with your destination address and Uber will only give you a pick up if the persons destination matches appx. Where you're headed.

I haven't had great luck with it yet personally but I live in Lynnwood.


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RusoArmo wrote:
It shows the pick up location and how far away they are but it does not show destination. Could be close could be far, you never know. You could of course cancel if you REALLY aren't happy with where the customer wants to go.

There is a destination filter setting. You're allowed to use it 2x per day. Say you're done ubering for the day and are headed back home to the East Side from Seattle. You can turn on the filter with your destination address and Uber will only give you a pick up if the persons destination matches appx. Where you're headed.

I haven't had great luck with it yet personally but I live in Lynnwood.


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IMO, showing destination, or at least direction, would be very helpful. The filter might work if I just want to pick up one or two rides.

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RusoArmo wrote:
It shows the pick up location and how far away they are but it does not show destination. Could be close could be far, you never know. You could of course cancel if you REALLY aren't happy with where the customer wants to go.

There is a destination filter setting. You're allowed to use it 2x per day. Say you're done ubering for the day and are headed back home to the East Side from Seattle. You can turn on the filter with your destination address and Uber will only give you a pick up if the persons destination matches appx. Where you're headed.

I haven't had great luck with it yet personally but I live in Lynnwood.


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IMO, showing destination, or at least direction, would be very helpful. The filter might work if I just want to pick up one or two rides.


Uber is designed with the customer in mind, not the driver. We're not Uber employees, we're "independent contractors".

If I see the destination of a rider is out to Kent or somewhere else far, I would easily reject it. I don't know if I will be so lucky to find another rider in Kent back to Seattle or the East Side so all those miles and time spent driving back would be "dead". This of course is good for me, however the rider is left standing on the street waiting to find the one driver desperate enough (or on their way home) to drive them to Kent.

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RusoArmo wrote:
It shows the pick up location and how far away they are but it does not show destination. Could be close could be far, you never know. You could of course cancel if you REALLY aren't happy with where the customer wants to go.

There is a destination filter setting. You're allowed to use it 2x per day. Say you're done ubering for the day and are headed back home to the East Side from Seattle. You can turn on the filter with your destination address and Uber will only give you a pick up if the persons destination matches appx. Where you're headed.

I haven't had great luck with it yet personally but I live in Lynnwood.


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IMO, showing destination, or at least direction, would be very helpful. The filter might work if I just want to pick up one or two rides.


Uber is designed with the customer in mind, not the driver. We're not Uber employees, we're "independent contractors".

If I see the destination of a rider is out to Kent or somewhere else far, I would easily reject it. I don't know if I will be so lucky to find another rider in Kent back to Seattle or the East Side so all those miles and time spent driving back would be "dead". This of course is good for me, however the rider is left standing on the street waiting to find the one driver desperate enough (or on their way home) to drive them to Kent.


Fair point.

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Well yesterday was quite the busy day. I was online from 4:30PM to 9:00PM with practically requests coming in non-stop. Not all were ideal, but because we must maintain a 90% acceptance rate, I didn't have a choice but to take them.

Some highlights of yesterday:
17 trips completed
Total time spent online including morning and evening was 6 hours.
Payout from application was $140
I got my first cash tips from 2 gentlemen, $5 each so total for the day earned was $150.

$150/6 hours online = $25 per hour, not too shabby.

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Thanks for updating. This is really fascinating to me. It's one thing to hear news reports but quite another to hear how everything works out on the floor.

I still think your not making enough. Being self employed you should just figure that a third of what you make is going away. Add to that the use of your car.

All that being said I think it's great that you are giving it a go. You might be able to figure out the system to where you can optimize time and place to make more money.

Keep in mind that uber is manipulating drivers to gain market share:

https://www.google.com/amp/gizmodo.com/why-uber-is-losing-money-faster-than-any-tech-company-e-1785736918/amp?client=safari

Hard to tell what will happen if competition goes away or driverless cars take off, literally. I was promised flying cars.

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I'm thinking about trying this out, myself.

Just bought a slick new black Ford Exploder.


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I wouldn't be able to do it for $25 an hour.

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I'm thinking about trying this out, myself.

Just bought a slick new black Ford Exploder.

Do Uber Black.

You can register for both Black and Black XL and get double exposure.

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Just read that Uber lost $1.7 Billion in the FIRST HALF of 2016. If they match that in the second half, how much longer will Uber be around?

Hard to see how a company that's loosing that kind of cheddar can survive.

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I'm not recommending this as someone's career / true full time job.

I already have a pretty decent job where my salary is greater than the average household income in Seattle. My wife is just below that. I'm doing this just as a way to pay down my small student loan even faster and buy more gun stuff.

Yes I am certain that if I timed things better, worked Friday and Saturday nights I would make more money, but I have a very simple goal that so far I'm going to be able to hit. I want to make $125 per day, 3x a week. Or roughly $1,500 per month.

I'm paying for my car either way as means to get to my real job so driving it for Uber part time really isn't depreciating it more than it was.

$25/HR is not making it rich money, but that's more than I would be making sitting on the couch watching TV or jerking off to Hillary.

Explorer should definitely go for Black if it's illegible. Uber has weird list of cars that qualify or not. If you have 7 seat belts you can totally do XL.


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Do it now and collect while you can - driverless Uber cars are already being tested in Pittsburgh. It's only a matter of time before drivers will be phased out.


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That will be entirely based on user acceptance.

Driving around slow streets, sure. Taking a driverless car onto the freeway, I'd like to see a couple years of less incidents than with human drivers before jumping on


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Benja455 wrote:
Do it now and collect while you can - driverless Uber cars are already being tested in Pittsburgh. It's only a matter of time before drivers will be phased out.



And our cities will have a bunch of these running around

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I wonder if they'll call them "Johny Cabs" or will they be renamed with some cutsie name to fit in with Uber, Lyft, etc.

Maybe they'll even have drivers like this to make riders more comfortable:

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