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Nonsense.
This is like asking, "which do you prefer, dogshit or horseshit?". Any experienced driver knows that there are subtle diffences between the two, but overall each is as bad as the other.
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This is like asking, "which do you prefer, dogshit or horseshit?". Any experienced driver knows that there are subtle diffences between the two, but overall each is as bad as the other.
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When I was bored earlier last week I quizzed Lyft on why they had taken away the ETA from their pings. Their response was, obviously, ridiculous.
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I agree.
If I had to pick one, I'd have to say I like Uber better, for the simple reason that they don't sound like the whiny, nagging, biotching spouse you should have divorced 10 years ago. Uber doesn't send you this, for example:
@@@@ off, Lyft! Who do you think you are, lol.
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Yeah, they just don't get it.
Of all the children who attempt to get rides with me, 90% of them come through on the Lyft app. That is another reason why Lyft is garbage... obviously when you get a minor you can't just cancel the ride otherwise it counts as a driver cancellation which leads to you getting a threatening message or email that you'll be fired if "there are further incidents of this behaviour". @@@@ off, Lyft; I'm not 8 years old. And now, waiting 5:00 to no show the pax often doesn't work - when I press the "Call" button in the app nothing happens and when the "No Show" button finally appears, the cancellation is not treated as a no show but a driver cancellation which again leads to the passive aggressive threat from Lyft against my account.
So now what I do is call Lyft support at each underage pax pickup attempt and have them remove the ride from my screen and pay me the $5 cancellation. This is again a pain in the arse because it takes 15 - 20 minutes on hold, then you may get a moron who doesn not know how to remove an active ride, claiming that they cannot do that, so you have to repeat the process.
You can't easily cancel rides from minors, you can't phone or text ahead to have them verify their age etc etc. All these constraints and restrictions, all this very tight control yet Lyft claims we are not their employees.... they really do suck balls. Much worse than Uber now.
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There are only two times that the Lyft DF might be effective.
1) You are parked at the North Pole and want to head south.
2) You are parked at the South Pole and want to head north.
I say might because Lyft would send you in the right direction to begin with, but after that you could obviously be sent anywhere.
The worst DF I have had from Lyft was when they diverted me 2 miles off the freeway to some dweeb who requested a multistop wait-and-return shopping trip to the local 7-Eleven. @@@ off.
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Yep. The last one I got like that, I was headed due west on my way home. The pickup was only a block from my position, so I took it. But Lyft was trying to get me to head due east, on a Prime Time-free trip back into the epicentre of downwtown traffic gridlock. Nope. The pax was shouting and swearing at me for refusing his ride but there was nothing I could do except leave him curbside F'ing and blinding.
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