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This is what goes through the mind of a pool pax:
Pax #1 Melissa: let's get an Uber x for the price of Uber pool. I am just beside the highway entrance and my destination is beside a highway exit. I am in a hurry but I know, there won't be any pickups as usual. Going from Queen/Carlaw to Bloor and Islington.
Pax #2 John: Let's order an Uber pool to save some money, taps on the pool option. What? My Uber is on the highway with another pax in it and it will take 9 minutes to pick me up? Screw him, I'm cancelling and trying another pool.
Pax #3 Matthew: Let's take a pool, orders it, get's the car with first pax in it allready, gets dropped off 4 blocks away. Gives 3 stars because he had to wait 10 minutes for the pickup.
Meanwhile, Melissa is pissed off...we had to get out of the highway to give Matthew a ride for 4 blocks? Now we are at Yonge/Bloor, will need to continue our way on Bloor which will take way longer than the Gardner.
At Bloor and Bathurst, another pickup: Jessica, pax #4 is going to Davenport and Dufferin. She had to wait 10 minutes for the pick up and is pissed off as well. After dropping off Jessica, we make 2 other pickups and dropoffs.
Finally, Melissa gets to her destination in 50 minutes instead of the usual 15 minutes taking the Gardner. She is pissed off as she is late at work and her boss gives her shit and tells her next time she is late, she is fired. When she finishes work and calls her Uber pool to take her home, the app reminds her to rate her ride from the previous trip. Without hesitating, she hits the one star option remembering it took her almost an hour to get to work. A few minutes later, spotting his Uber Partner app seating in the washroom, the driver asks himself what he did wrong for his rating dropping from 4.84 to 4.82 in a few minutes.
This is a fictionnal story but explains why Uber pool passengers shouldn't be able to rate their driver on pool.
Pax #1 Melissa: let's get an Uber x for the price of Uber pool. I am just beside the highway entrance and my destination is beside a highway exit. I am in a hurry but I know, there won't be any pickups as usual. Going from Queen/Carlaw to Bloor and Islington.
Pax #2 John: Let's order an Uber pool to save some money, taps on the pool option. What? My Uber is on the highway with another pax in it and it will take 9 minutes to pick me up? Screw him, I'm cancelling and trying another pool.
Pax #3 Matthew: Let's take a pool, orders it, get's the car with first pax in it allready, gets dropped off 4 blocks away. Gives 3 stars because he had to wait 10 minutes for the pickup.
Meanwhile, Melissa is pissed off...we had to get out of the highway to give Matthew a ride for 4 blocks? Now we are at Yonge/Bloor, will need to continue our way on Bloor which will take way longer than the Gardner.
At Bloor and Bathurst, another pickup: Jessica, pax #4 is going to Davenport and Dufferin. She had to wait 10 minutes for the pick up and is pissed off as well. After dropping off Jessica, we make 2 other pickups and dropoffs.
Finally, Melissa gets to her destination in 50 minutes instead of the usual 15 minutes taking the Gardner. She is pissed off as she is late at work and her boss gives her shit and tells her next time she is late, she is fired. When she finishes work and calls her Uber pool to take her home, the app reminds her to rate her ride from the previous trip. Without hesitating, she hits the one star option remembering it took her almost an hour to get to work. A few minutes later, spotting his Uber Partner app seating in the washroom, the driver asks himself what he did wrong for his rating dropping from 4.84 to 4.82 in a few minutes.
This is a fictionnal story but explains why Uber pool passengers shouldn't be able to rate their driver on pool.
