re: How much was Uber this past Saturday night?

Just got back from SF and the Uber App there has a button at the bottom that allows ride sharing. The car drives around and picks up multiple riders with closely located destinations. The riders all split the care evenly. Would be great for game days and I hope they add it here soon. Using the Share feature was totally optional. Driver did NOT like it though. In their view, more individual riders equals more fares. I can see their point.

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Were you ok with this under the circumstances?

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Honestly, I walked like a mile from Fred's in order to make myself easier to get to and to make the ride shorter.

I think $21 to go less than 2 miles when the game has been over for hours is insane.

I understand the inflation, and I went in knowing it would occur. But that's a bit much.

Thing is, Jones and I don't have YellowCab problems for the most part. We have been calling cabs for years, and they always treat us right. We've had a couple weirdo/dickhead drivers, and like 1 instance where we waited forever for a cab, but generally they come right to us. We purposely leave busy areas if we can.. and purposely call before 2am. Never have issues.

A cab from that intersection to his house would have been MAYBE $6.
$6 vs. $21 pushes the question of whether it's worth it.

Like I said, I adored Uber in Houston. And I am sure I'll love it in BR at times. But gameday? Nah. We will just stay at my place on gameday so we can walk home.

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Our driver told us that she got calls all night long from people in Tigerland, and then they'd cancel the rides right as she showed up.

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I thought the drivers can rate riders? Wouldn't doing that end up with people not getting selected for rides?

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I thought the drivers can rate riders? Wouldn't doing that end up with people not getting selected for rides?

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Uber just got to BR. These people probably don't have the profiles yet.

I'm sure (or I hope) she rated them poorly.

Either way, people do this shite to regular cab drivers too and it infuriates me because it factors into making rides harder for those who will actually use it.

Problem is, a cab driver can just snag someone else if they show up and the caller is gone. An Uber driver can't pick up someone without an account (and who is too drunk to make an account).

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So it just goes up according to an event or something?

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No, it goes up in response to there being fewer drivers than riders with no regard to when or why the shortage occurs. It really is simple supply and demand and it attempts to ensure that the number of drivers available matches the number of people willing to ride at the current price. When a shortage of drivers begins to happen, Uber raises the price for a ride. This encourages more drivers to hop into their cars and reduces the number of riders by eliminating those who don't want to pay the surge pricing. After all, if a ride is going for $300, drivers are going to want to get in in that, and anyone who really wants a ride and is willing to pay is guaranteed a ride. That you should always be able to get a ride, though it might cost you, is one of the great ideas with Uber. Once the number of drivers and number of riders balances back out, the system automatically scales back the surge pricing and returns to normal.

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In DC all my uber drivers were also Lyft drivers. I thought it was kind of unethical.

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Not unethical because they're technically independent contractors, if this were to be argued by either Lyft or Uber then they'd have all kinds of hell on their hands

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Uber takes a %. It doesn't matter if they're split or together. It's still X percent.

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3 individual riders at $10 ride each makes $30 for drivers.

3 people riding together and splitting the fare equally equals $3.33 each and a total $10 ride.

Uber is pushing the ride share as being "Green". Drivers just see it as less revenue.

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BS. You couldn't get anything outside Reliant. It was an absolute ghost town for cabs. You must have paid through the roof.

NVM. You said to Reliant.

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Both.

Uber to Reliant was free.

Lyft from Reliant was free. I tailgated for like 40 minutes after the game, but there were still plenty people trying to get rides when we jut waited 5 minutes for our Lyft.

That's how we found Berg. He was begging people for rides

I'm sorry but that's just BS. We had to wait 1.5 hours and still paid $150 for 5 people from Reliant to Galleria.

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I'm sorry but that's just BS. We had to wait 1.5 hours and still paid $150 for 5 people from Reliant to Galleria.

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It's not at all. I'll show you my receipt.

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Thanks for riding with Ken!

Ride ending August 31 at 1:39 AM
Pickup: 7929 Kirby Drive, Houston, TX 77054, USA
Dropoff: 1701-1799 Smith Street, Houston, TX 77002, USA
Ride 6.7 mi & 14 min: $13
Prime Time*: $9
Lyft Credits: -$22
Total charged to Visa ***3061: $0

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EDIT: It's not 17-minutes. It was 14 minutes.

Like I said, we tailgated for 40ish minutes. But we were picked up with 5 minutes when we decided to call a ride.

We just walked across the street to the little Walgreens thing.


This was Lyft though.