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This is why we need public transportation
Google… What if we detected a person was drunk and then alerted the authorities! And then push notifications for Uber in case the drunk wants to pay us a cut for detecting them drunk and giving him a ride… Or an attorney in case they accidentally drive home or do other things while drunk. Or for telehealth therapy! Or for more drinks! Or maybe they wanna chase it with a good burger nearby! Hey! This drink worked! Do you want to buy the bottle online from Amazon? What other activities are others having while drunk! How about a hotel room nearby and or a person to wakeup with tomorrow? Maybe you might want to marry tonight and divorce tomorrow morning?
The possibilities are endless!
Perhaps if drunks were less likely to assault uber drivers, it probably wouldn’t need to be a thing.
Don’t worry, they can just drive home! Oh wait…
They will just charge drunk fee. Uber not the driver.
I see self censorship, I downvote it
What? Uber had algorithms to determine whether the person is drunk or not and surge the price for them back when I was working for them in 2019
TBF the OP is not dated. Nevertheless, how does it work? Once they surge the price, one drunk guy will probably just accept it, mindlessly, while a more sober foe will probably tap FUCK NO, and try again. Maybe that’s the algorithm, the good old capitalist pig algorithm.
Recovering Uber driver here.
I drove back in 2017-2018, and at that time Uber was starting to get difficult about reimbursing cleaning fees when some drunk puked in the car, which made fewer drivers want to pick up drunks. I can’t imagine the situation has improved since then.
So wait.
You get charged a cleaning fee if you puke in someones car… but uber wont give the cleaning fee to the driver, you know…the person who has to have their car cleaned?
That’s right! Isn’t that fun?
This and the fact that I started to make almost no money is why I don’t drive for Uber anymore.
I unfortunately drove Uber for a bit back in the late 2010s until I got tired of being sexually harassed. Drivers do get paid the cleaning fee, but the rideshare services were becoming increasingly stringent about their requirements for paying it. The issue was threefold.
People would soil vehicles then dispute the cleaning charges with their credit card, so Uber would be out whatever was paid to the driver. Last I knew, this was a maximum of $225, but capped at $80 if the driver did the cleaning. Good luck finding a professional cleaner that charges less than $225 for cleaning seats smeared with vomit or feces.
Next, drivers would fake vomit or feces and file a report, causing their prior passengers to be charged a cleaning fee.
Ultimately, the ride share services tightened up their methods for both charging and refunding these fees to the detriment of both drivers and riders because they’re soulless, capitalist pig fuckers that only care about profit.
These people make no money and i demand to be drunk and annoying, possibly puke in their car
I know you’re being sarcastic, but to be fair there is a difference between “I shouldn’t drive” and “vomit comet” levels of drunk. As a taxi service it’s part of the work that you get people like that, but they wanted to take over the industry, so they have to deal with the ups and downs of it.
Dude I am so sick of all these weird half assed randomly censored posts. You can say drunk on the internet. You can say onlyfans on the internet. You can say fuck these goddamn piece of shit cuntsicles on the internet. Jesus fucking christ.
they got you, mission accomplished
Oh shut the fuck up, Lemmy doesn’t have algorithms that deal with content bait bullshit like this. Take your karma farming comments to reddit.
I mean, I did find this post because it got pushed to the top of my Active feed…
Lemmy does in fact have algorithms. Just transparent ones
I think when they do it with words like this is for engagement.
Free comments.
Damn it I walked right in to it
Exactly. I don’t come to the fediverse for this weirdly censored, unsubstantiated bullshit. I’m downvoting and moving on, but I’m also as disappointed as the cricket guy meme.
Seek repentance, now!
Whew, I sure am glad that somebody haphazardly crossed out that ‘u’. I might have had to read the word “drunk” otherwise.
I don’t understand. Why would anybody censor drunk? Like I see the train of thought for the fucks and shits etc. but drunk? DRUNK?? IS THIS WHAT OUR SOCIETY HAS BECOME? WE TALK ABOUT ethanol excess oopsies WHILE SOMEONE VEHICULARLY MANSLAUGHTERS THE NEXT GENERATION???
Thats a lie if they know you are drunk they will hit you with surge pricing. They are doing something similar with phone battery, if the battery is low they hit you with surge pricing!
downvoted for using shitty censorship to fuel engagement
Fueling engagement seemed to have worked on you
This is Fediverse, dipshit, not tik tok.
Why do you call strangers dipshit over nothing? That’s really rude.
My comment has nothing to do with the platform we’re on. Every comment section everywhere is full of the same comments whenever a word is not fully visible.
Why were you makeing such a snarky comment to someone on how “somehow engagement must have worked on you”?
Not everything is about engagement and algorithms. We’re on a message board. We leave messages. It’s not about bait or lawl you fell for the algorithm. It’s a message board where people comment their thoughts and opinions on things.
by this point most people in america probably don’t remember taxi cabs. they would often be dirty and driven by a disheveled wildman. these drivers answered to no one other than their dispatcher who gave just as little of a fuck.
do you have a problem with the driver? did he smell bad, did he talk too much, did he blast a master P song at full volume for the entire ride despite your objections?
tough shit.
uber was built in response to this. it was not only based on these occasional bad experiences, but to ensure that every working class person was on their best behavior when in the presence of their betters. it was never about a service or bettering anything, other than sparing the better-off from mild inconvenience.
Hell I remember trying to get a cab home from a bar pre-ride share and them telling me itd be two hours. I slept in my car in the parking lot instead.
Far more likely scenario
Uber can now tell when you’re drunk, and don’t have a car and will charge you more because you’re desperate.
And not pay the driver any extra
like going to a strip club
At least you get free breakfast buffet at strip clubs. (Or you did the last time I went to one more than 20 years ago.)
Is there an actual source for this? I tried searching news for “Uber will know you’re drunk” and found nothing, I reverse look-upped the meme and saw it nowhere, there is no indication of a source in the meme.
I want to know how they will know that you’re drunk, and I want to know why they want to cut off what I assume is a decent chunk of their clientele, but I’m not seeing anything.
I found articles from 6 years ago that says that uber drives have the choice to turn you down if they think you’re too drunk or obnoxious
I would have thought that was always the case, but maybe not.
So it reads to me that it’s not that Uber will be like, “he’s legally drunk, he can’t use our service”, it’s, “I went to pick this guy up and he was vomiting and his pants were falling down so I decided to turn him down”
It should be noted I did not actually click these links and read the articles or anything, that’s just how it appeared. So, take it with a grain of salt. I might have read the articles except I don’t drink so I don’t really care