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No, I will not accept shared rides. Period! And if they stop captioning the shared rides so we can't see the nature of the ride in advance of acceptance, I'll just drive for Lyft.
After completing 10K trips in 6yrs, ubershare or pool is the worst experience. 90% of the shared riders are giving false low rating, complaing, demands the 5 star service with no tip and if possible free ride.
I think shared is not good because Uber sends you to the next stop without your consent. I turned off sharing and in 1 week the only thing they gave me was 2 pickups. I went with Lyft.
I NEVER take shared rides. If I accept one, by accident, I cancel it. I've done one shared ride. It was horrible. The riders were from opposite ends, of the SES spectrum, and they did not get along.
I would think this would be a bigger issue for the passengers than the drivers. Who would pay the rates Uber is charging, then get stuck sitting next to some drunk fool all the way home. That service already exists. It’s called the “bus”. And it doesn’t cost what Uber is charging. People call n Uber specifically to avoid public transportation, which is what this becomes with a shared ride. It also feels like an invasion of personal space, given the dimensions of the back seat. Honestly, I don’t know how this company is still in business with the kind of “idea” people they have working there.
If Shared rides are calculated the same way extra stops are...that's a No Can Do for me. Passengers will add a stop, get charged $5 and keep 90% or more of that $5 while the driver gets to waste more time and gas.
Never will take a shared ride by choice. Frankly I'm not keen on the whole market I'm in and I honestly the way Uber keeps combining/eliminating options for drivers is making me question whether I will even bother much in future. But hey, more passengers for other drivers if/when I dip.
I picked up a person who said she had chosen Uber share but in my screen it came up as Uber x notice her phone did say Uber share . Uber is very shady and they won’t do anything until we all stop driving for a week as a protest but it has to be done by everyone .
Had a $3.50 sticky surge. Kind of out in the country side. Shared ride came over. 1 Milie ride on directing in heading. Extreme low chance getting an add .... so .... easy $7.00 But yes. These aren't great.
I noticed this last night in Atlanta I was doing a Braves pickup and kept getting Uber X share I was steaming bc there is no extra pay. I dont want my PAX rating to fall and you cannot turn it off I tried. I guess the only good thing is Uber X share accept button is bigger than it typically would be but this sucks I had to turn down 3 Uber Share to get 1 Uber Comfort
I also work the Atlanta market and I suppose you have found this out by now but currently at the time of this posting our acceptance rating is not affected by refusing to take shared rides. Just ignore them as I do. However, since they have become so popular and so many drivers are not taking them I fully expect in the future Uber will begin penalizing drivers for not accepting them.
Shared rides are in the nyc suburbs however when I open preferences there isn’t an option to turn it on/off. There is no opt out in the notification of shared rides in inbox either.
Hi my name is Brian Campbell I am part time Uber and Lyft driver in atlanta Georgia I don’t understand why they bring back Uber pool it is not making us no money. We are not making nothing extra from Uber pool. Lyft discontinued Lyft pool
The cheaper the ride (shared), the cheaper the rider (no tip) and the more likely your rating goes down and/or a false report is filed Uber where *you* get de-platformed and *their* already cheap ride becomes free. That’s my experience with 1 of the 4 Uber pool rides I gave out compared to the multiple thousands I’ve given overall. Like someone has already said, I will *never* voluntarily provide a shared ride.
Yeah I am fed up with Uber. Took a 15 mile trip that took 25 minutes and only made 10.74 Took another trip 1/2 the distance and made 10.00 standard UberX Ride. Ridiculous
I am a Uber driver 95% of the time, so, if this happens to be what they are doing, I will use Lyft 100% of time, even if I make a (few bucks less). It’s not going to kill me or make me as this is not my main source of income.
Chris your posting alerted me in the fact that currently I don’t take share rides but because in San Francisco having a Diamond rating with the priority queue at the airport is a must and last month I took a couple weeks off (my first month of the quarter accruing points to reach Diamond tier), so I’m way behind in my goal of 800 points per month, I’m turning my share rides on today to speed up the point count. That’s the main advantage of Uber share as long the destinations stay within the geographical radius of the first ride.
@@JC-mn2ll We have to continuously make it on our terms dodging every obstacle that comes our way...We should not have to put up with Uber rules as independent contractors.. I am building my own clientele soon enough I will be free from these chains.
Other factors you didn't mention, are A. You don't have the option to pick up a shared ride, but then log off in advanced so that you don't get an additional shared ride... it will give you one anyways if one is requested.... and B. Shared rides don't equate to multiple rides. If you picked a shared ride with 3 riders getting picked up separately (which happened to me today!), it will not count as 3 rides.. only 1. So the entire hour I was giving a this triple shared ride, I thought it was going to count as 3 rides towards my bonus... but it didn't. Just 1. I will never do shared rides again for that reason alone.
I've done Uber share rides, -not cost effective to drivers.And the pax I picked up.Did not like it!!!Reaction!!being people don't want someone else knowing where they live and how they live , it makes them very uncomfortable,- it brings the stranger danger sense up, !Quoted from a pax when I drove in Atlanta especially coming from the airport or a day of shopping.
I was wondering how this worked. I was Soo pissed yesterday. I showed up at the mall not realizing that four people...FOUR Just came to my car..and just hopped in👀😳. Now, my car is only comfortable with two, in the back, not 3 and a possible....in the front seat...😤. It happened twice.🤦🏽♂️ My car went from comfortable party of one to a club UberX in minutes. It didn't say shared y'all. Not one time. I'm thinking I'm picking up one person.🤔 😖... What do you do when you show up and there's a village trying to catch a ride. Drive off? Then when you say why, they can still give a bad rating and that impacts. What do ya do🤷🏾♂️
Hmmm, your post confuses me because a shared ride request is for 1 seat only per requester. If four people got in on a shared ride you were supposed to cancel and that is a canned option "too many riders".
In typical Uber fashion they included the combined checkbox in the last software update I did, 4:14 so this morning I picked a girl up and was taking her to work and there was a pick up for another person and I said oh we’re picking someone else up. She says I don’t know, I picked a shared ride, which was a complete surprise to me. The two girls actually were telling stories about getting into a shared ride with guys that were coming from the bars and were trying to pick them up the whole time they were driving, so it’s a nightmare, waiting to happen, I don’t want any part of it and I guess I have to pay closer attention to what rides I pick in the future
I am glad I saw this video. As.a frequent UberX rider, i was curious as to how that all works for drivers if they have preferences as to the type of rides they pick up.
@MileHighCatMom, my fear is picking up two different riders who get into an argument in my car. Share my work for airport shuttles but uber. I don't know. More people in your car. Is it more pay or you get paid once?
@@Poppinoffchannel i cant speak on more pay. I never thought that. Faster rides for bonuses yes. But shared in my experience is where your rating takes a major hit. From cheap people wanting more cheap free stuff. At the drivers expense. But yea ive also had people not get along and that can really be scary. Here they dont allow shared to, or from the airport thankfully. We already have pax catfishing cars using diff tiers thinking they get more luggage space.🙄 Comfort on Uber and Preferred on Lyft.
When they did it before some riders were pissed. I would pick up one rider then pick up two more and then drop off one rider while the first rider was still in the car going to work. I got one yesterday and it automatically came in and I cancelled it
They are forcing in Spain. They have it mixed but you can close your session with your first rider on board and reopen session when she gets out. That's how I get around it
I'm going to start doing this..I heard that they were giving out warnings not to do this but I HATE not knowing where I'm going. Theyll just add on 45 minutes to my trip thinking I want an 1 hour trip back home. Total bs
It's weird because earlier this year, and only very briefly (about a day or two), there was a standalone selection/checkbox for Share in the trip preferences. They relatively quickly removed it. They obviously botched a code deployment.
In the Las Vegas market they just recently combined UberX and Share within the same preference check box in the app. They are obviously pushing "shared rides" again for some reason? I guess I will now need to pay extra attention to what type of ride I choose at any given time. I'm not too keen on "shared" rides for a variety of reasons. I think most passengers would rather experience a "private ride" without any additional passengers even if it did cost a little more. All this just complicates things a bit more.
I considered doing shared rides when first it was ok after pandemic restrictions eased up. Almost nobody was requesting or they were too far away to be worth the effort, so I stopped altogether. Now I am no shared rides and these days I'm less inclined to do multiple stop rides as well.
Yep. Can confirm. uber just launched shared in my market (Tampa Bay). uberx & ubershare are bound together in a single option. I'm sure the reason is simple, in markets where it's two separate options, not enough drivers are turning it on.
In Washington DC we have the X and shared. I did notice more uber green request by passengers because I own a hybrid however I don't know if it's a coincidence. I was looking to see how to opt-out but no luck on youtube.
I think share is a tremendous liability for the driver and will never accept them. What if late night I get a young woman who is drunk and a guy joins the share whose also drink. Now he starts bullying her or hassling her in some other manner. Am I supposed to be the cop who breaks up the fight? This is another of Uber money makers that abuses the driver. I’ve expressed this to Uber telling them if I’m an Independent Business Owner than I should be able to manage my business. They instructed me that the “workaround” is to shut off additional requests as soon as I get the first shared rider! That means I have to log on again after I drop that rider and won’t have a trip waiting at the drop off. More lost money!
You don’t even know the ramifications for that lol I wish I could tell you what happens afterwards when you do this, but not gonna feed people free information. I’m not here to help others not with you but at least it’s everybody for themselves.
Uber is screwing both drivers and passanger and it's very dangerous and you know these people Not going to Tip you. You, can except Uber Share and before the ride get started go hit Stop New Request. It will not effect your rating!
I hate shared rides sometimes. In Dallas area UberX and Shared is a combined. So we are forced to take them. You're driving and the app says rider has been added and then a few minutes later another rider is add without you being able to deny. I had 3 riders and as soon as I dropped off one rider a fourth person was added. I was force to take that person outside a desired driving distance. I was pissed.
I'll take it but once I accept the ride I hit stop requests until I'm close to the drop off and it works I don't get another shared ride. So basically turning it into an uber X.
Really a disappointing turn of events. I drove shared rides a few years ago with Lyft, and it's like driving a school bus. A pain in the butt, without any real benefit to the driver. I don't want strangers getting to know each other in my car, and also don't want to always have someone in the front passenger seat. And riders that are so concerned about cost as to want to share their ride are likely to be lousy tippers. Hopefully, it will be so unpopular in my city that they dump it. I've been trying to get support to add Uber Comfort to my preferences (I have Comfort Electric and Uber Green), but no one in support can seem to figure out why I can't see Comfort, which will be even more important to have as an option now. I've spent about five hours on the phone with support about it so far.
I don’t want to do the shared rides. And I won’t. I am loosing a lot of money lately because of this as it is all that Uber is issuing in my area. But I am standing my ground and hope others quit taking them too. But they I am guessing they are still doing them. I refuse to let Uber rip me off any longer. If doesn’t get better this month I will have to leave Uber all together. Tired of not making money.
Share ride is new in my area, and So far, i have declined all shared ride requests, only because I think my current passengers would not want to share their ride space with other people - so far so good with no negative consequences from Uber - but I wonder how long will Uber allow us to decline share ride requests? If it is profitable for Uber, then most likely it would be for the drivers too, since we are only picking up share ride that are already on our way to the final destination.
now in Chicago ...what a horrible thing is a sharing rides ...as night driver , taking sharing rides is nightmare ...taking drunk/drug person from the bar , and then pick up person going to work ! Hell NO!
Currently in my market in Atlanta we are not forced to accept Shared rides as we can ignore them without penalty to our acceptance rating but we cannot turn them off from appearing because they have been connected to UberX in the preferences. I also just received a message that yet another change has been made to shared rides allowing shared ride requests to now take "two" seats. I suppose enough people complained about being cancelled on because they did not read the "terms" of 1 seat only on shared rides. Of course only one of the riders can reserve two seats so that info may even have to be manually entered on the app so the app does not pair the driver with another two seat request. I myself have stopped taking shared rides since I do not like not knowing where I am going to end up since with co-riders added we have no idea where they are going. I had an add on end up going 75 miles away from town and decided to stop taking that risks anymore.
I kinda do shared rides right now. Two people get into the vehicle, there's one stop where someone gets out, and I go to the final destination. Normally, they're not strangers and I don't have to do more than one pickup. Do drivers get paid what we want for longer drive times? Going into two different apartment complexes with speeds bumps then dropping off at two different locations is a lot wear and tear for the same price.
Drove alittle last night one after the other shared rides cancelled every one of them. They can lower my acceptance rate all they want, unless shared rides are paying a considerable amount more, will continue declining. Even if these rides do pay more there is this: About a year ago, a driver took a shared ride. One of the riders was schizophrenic had a gun, shot and killed other rider and the driver. The driver was from Queens, NY.
I got a bonus offer for like $120 for 40 rides - the next few offers only got like $30 for 40 rides. It’s like daylight savings time, cutting off one end of a rug and sewing it on the other side.
First off , Uber takes 1/2 of the Fare they charge the Riders. The Uber driver should quit under those circumstances as they are being treated unfair . It's a rip off. You would be better off working at $15. Per hour saving you vehicle from depreciating with the miles you put on it. Uber expenses is minimal in comparison to what the drivers have. That is why Uber is a billion dollar industry. I know some drivers claim they earn 2-3 hundred a day. But they work long hours and of course expenses such as fuel need to come out of it. Which I belive to be $25 -30 I quit since they tried to send me on trips 10 miles away to earn $5.00 and consistently doing so threw out the day. As well want me to drive in what I consider dangerous areas such as B.more, Then long trips that paid very little with not return fares.
I'm glad I live in an area that doesn't have pool share. I live about 70 mi from LA. I know it's down there but I have it disabled in my app when I end up in the area though. Most of the time I turn off my app when I end up in LA cuz I don't like driving in that area. I usually try to go towards Orange county or Riverside county or try to go back to my home county in San Bernardino county. I prefer to stay in San Bernardino county cuz it keeps me close to where I live and it's still quite busy and I don't have to deal with the traffic like it is in LA. I do hate LA traffic so much that I tend to just screw it and just head back to San Bernardino, Riverside or even Orange county
Not here yet but got notice of it coming. sorry, I have zero interest in this. sounds like it will be super stressful and I don't want to have to babysit grown adults and make sure they are playing nice. I dont get paid enough as it is!!!
Hi Chris, I recently started doing Uber Black and does a lower acceptance rate really matter and gets you deactivated on the Uber black account? Please reply back if you know the answer. Thank you!
Is it really so busy you have to decline work? I've never heard of this. The Uber Black drivers I have spoken to are grateful to get anything some days because depending on the day and what's going on in a market, you might find it is super slow
This happened to me. My Uber x preference was missing and a new box appeared that said Uber X and Share. I called in and they fixed it. I now have the choice.
They always had that when it was Uber Pool. Nothing is new with that. The moment I switched vehicles to an XL option it NEVER gave me the pool option. But the share option did appear, but if u don't get a second passenger that ride is the equivalence to an Uber X
After picking up a shared ride, I turn off new requests. It's worked for me up until now, I've never did a shared ride. I really wouldn't know how to do it
It may or may not pop up for you to pick up another rider as you have a rider in the car already. That person already knows there's a possibility you will get another request while you're taking them. You have the option to take or not take it. Either way, it's more time waiting on other people and I don't know that it's all that more profitable because you're doing maybe two instead of one ride. It's only good if you have trip number based quests.
@Brent how long have u been a driver? As u know any car qualifies for X. Comfort is larger newer cars. Not necessarily more expensive. My van qualifies for Comfort. Having them combined isn't good or bad. It will just keep him busy. Nothing wrong with that.
@@j-rschmoove 6 long years. Newer means more expensive. A three year old car will always cost more to acquire and depreciate more per year/mile than a 12 year old car.
Here in Australia we always had uberX/share together and we call the uber share as uber pool here. People by mistake book uber pool thinking its uberX and we have to confirm before the rider hops into the car.
heres the question.. are the share rides .. going to be counted as its onw ride not apart if the same trip.. like for quest if i do uber share will both those only be counted as 1 trip towards the quest or 2 trips cuz thts how uber gets u ..
GUYS!!!!! You have people getting in Uber shares thinking it’s just them then they get home 30-40 mins later than expected and only saved $2 lolllllll IF YOU USE IT PERSONALLY NEVERRR USE SHARE
I hate driving for uber. The last few years they have gotten to be jerks that want to pay drivers less and less and control the drivers. Drivers will have to come together stick to their guns go on strike or boycott uber. If not uber will get much worse for drivers.
They will increase the wait time on shared . In Las Vegas riders take their time going to the pick up place . In Las Vegas we pick up at rideshare pick up areas . On Uberx they have 7 minutes . One share rider said I will be down in ten minutes . Like that would happen . If the customer calls and say they are somewhere else then by the time the call is over the red cancel comes up . After 2 minutes there is no penalty . This is bad for riders in Las Vegas .
It’s always your choice to accept UberX Share trip requests. If you do reject primary UberX Share requests or cancel requests along your route, you will not be penalized and it will not affect your Uber Pro status.
It will count. all unaccepted request are considered a decline. In a human sense no, however the Ai in the algorithm goes by numbers. Therefore it counts.
You need to pay close attention that Uber specify that you can decline share rides without negative impact on your Uber account and that is meant that you can decline all of share rides without any problems.
Guys IF YOU CANCEL AN UBER X RIDE YOU WILL HAVE A PENALTY. They don’t even classify it when it’s on the screen as a share so you have no idea until you accept it. I’ve had 3-4 passengers being added and these dumb passengers don’t know how to add the proper amount of people entering the car. Especially the ghetto people who live on food stamps. I’m tired of doing dangerous areas but my rating is 4.99 4000 rides. The ghetto has been lowering my rating to 4.95 and I’ve worked hard to keep it back up to 4.99. Every lyft driver is a 5 star driver 😂😂😂 My tips are at 23%
Kinda off topic but the heat map here in western Massachusetts has been terribly broken. Im an experienced driver and very familiar with where I need to be and surge trends in my area. The heat map has sometimes been nonexistent some days. Now I’m seeing the grey purple unknown surges. AND the app has TOLD me I’m in a surge at the bottom but yet there IS NO SURGE COLOR. UUUGHGHG sorry. Support has not been helpful so now I’m here spreading the word to y’all that up here in western Massachusetts it has been very very frustrating. ✌🏼
I’m in the Boston area and found it so aggravating, I turned off the app and went home. My Lyft privileges are wanting for a new TNC inspection and I’m renting a Tesla from Uber in the meantime. Never again!
Share is called 'pool' here in London UK where I drive and it's always been connected to x since its introduction a few years ago. Luckily passengers after trying that in the first year seem to hate it. I haven't received pool offer for years now🤗. If they try to send me that, I'll decline/cancel straight away. It should be separated preference from x for sure.
Today out the blue I received a shared ride and the rider was so pissed at the fact he had to share the ride with someone else. He said he didn’t realize he selected a shared ride.
I worked last night ( Sat) and the entire night we had multiplier that covered 100% of our area due to two vary large city events. I did not receive any of the multipliers nor the surges for the ENTIRE time that I worked. EVERY trip should have had a multiplier with it but not one of them did. I know what the customers were charged for their rides and for whatever reason I was not paid the correct amount. Most of my rides last night were in the 1.5x range and this needs to be fixed. This was my first time as a new Uber Driver doing the surge and multipliers and it has left a very bad taste in my mouth. Please tell me that this is not the norm and you pay people correctly and what they are worth.
How do you know there were multiplayers or surge? Yes this is normal. Wish I could share as to why and how we get the surge. But I’m waiting on these experts to tell you guys and they haven’t. I know how the entire app works and what the algos are and when they change. I predict my night before I walk out the door and I’m off buy$2-3
I think its nothing but trouble.. say you are at walmart and have to pick up two riders with all their 500 bags of groceries.. its not going to go well.. I dont want to do this, fortunately its not in my area yet
They used to do this with UberPool. They had it with X at the same time before the pandemic. So far X share is still separate in Los Angeles. Lyft was smart enough to abolish shared rides. Thankfully, there’s some California markets that most likely will never get it at all.
Some riders don't even understand that they're sharing a ride with another Uber passenger. They picked Uber Share because it was the cheapest option. If I accidentally choose a shared ride by mistake, I turn off notifications. I had a young woman and her two small children in the back seat for a shared ride. She was clueless, so I simply turned off notifications and told her to pick Uber X if she didn't want passengers. Personally, I think it's a pain in the ass to be redirected in the middle of a trip to pick up another person.
Also, if you accept a shared ride, they can keep adding more stops without you having to accept them. It’s like you have to turn off accepting rides completely.
if they really wanted to push it they should make sweet weekdays and weekend share ride promotions for us; pay us decently and we turn up, and give us the option to opt out if we don't want it, let us decide if we want the extra $
Exactly. When they first rolled it out, it was a choice to opt-in, then it disappeared, and came back combined because Uber knows that drivers will uncheck the box
Drivers are afraid of the stigma UberPOOL had, they fear Uber X share is going to have the same headaches that many suffered in the past such as extremely low payout, endless matching, & picking up up to two riders per location. Uber X Share guarantees only two riders are matched, they ride in the back seats & rider's pick up location are 8 minutes apart going the same direction no more back tracking to pick up a rider according to Uber.
I have separate UberX and Share and UberX by itself. I feel that because I only have UberX checked, I am being denied requests. Last weekend I made less than $10/hr and still need to put gas and I am on a rental.
They control everything when the driver is busy in the surge hours, I always have the 4.9 ⭐ rating on riders to stay away from drama and trouble makers, when I go to drop off in a high crime area, the rider rating option disappear
Hello. Is there a way i can email you? I have a few questions and an issue I'd like to discuss if possible. Thanks in advance. I am on several gig platforms. Good day to all the drivers/deliverers out there.
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No, I will not accept shared rides. Period! And if they stop captioning the shared rides so we can't see the nature of the ride in advance of acceptance, I'll just drive for Lyft.
I only drove Lyft briefly a few years ago, but it was set up this way ... no way to separate shared from single rides. Is it different now?
Uber Share rides are money makers for the company. Uber gets a booking fee off each rider. Drivers don't get anything for the extra headache.
Start a crowdfund for free lube.
Uber already takes 60% of rides 😮
After completing 10K trips in 6yrs, ubershare or pool is the worst experience. 90% of the shared riders are giving false low rating, complaing, demands the 5 star service with no tip and if possible free ride.
I think shared is not good because Uber sends you to the next stop without your consent. I turned off sharing and in 1 week the only thing they gave me was 2 pickups. I went with Lyft.
I NEVER take shared rides. If I accept one, by accident, I cancel it. I've done one shared ride. It was horrible. The riders were from opposite ends, of the SES spectrum, and they did not get along.
I would think this would be a bigger issue for the passengers than the drivers.
Who would pay the rates Uber is charging, then get stuck sitting next to some drunk fool all the way home.
That service already exists. It’s called the “bus”. And it doesn’t cost what Uber is charging.
People call n Uber specifically to avoid public transportation, which is what this becomes with a shared ride.
It also feels like an invasion of personal space, given the dimensions of the back seat.
Honestly, I don’t know how this company is still in business with the kind of “idea” people they have working there.
The memo clearly indicated that it will not affect your acceptance rate if you decline a shared ride but we'll see how true that really is.
If Shared rides are calculated the same way extra stops are...that's a No Can Do for me.
Passengers will add a stop, get charged $5 and keep 90% or more of that $5 while the driver gets to waste more time and gas.
Never will take a shared ride by choice. Frankly I'm not keen on the whole market I'm in and I honestly the way Uber keeps combining/eliminating options for drivers is making me question whether I will even bother much in future. But hey, more passengers for other drivers if/when I dip.
I picked up a person who said she had chosen Uber share but in my screen it came up as Uber x notice her phone did say Uber share . Uber is very shady and they won’t do anything until we all stop driving for a week as a protest but it has to be done by everyone .
I will never take Uber shared rides. Over my dead body !
Had a $3.50 sticky surge. Kind of out in the country side. Shared ride came over. 1 Milie ride on directing in heading. Extreme low chance getting an add .... so .... easy $7.00
But yes. These aren't great.
I noticed this last night in Atlanta I was doing a Braves pickup and kept getting Uber X share I was steaming bc there is no extra pay. I dont want my PAX rating to fall and you cannot turn it off I tried. I guess the only good thing is Uber X share accept button is bigger than it typically would be but this sucks I had to turn down 3 Uber Share to get 1 Uber Comfort
I also work the Atlanta market and I suppose you have found this out by now but currently at the time of this posting our acceptance rating is not affected by refusing to take shared rides. Just ignore them as I do. However, since they have become so popular and so many drivers are not taking them I fully expect in the future Uber will begin penalizing drivers for not accepting them.
Shared rides are in the nyc suburbs however when I open preferences there isn’t an option to turn it on/off. There is no opt out in the notification of shared rides in inbox either.
Hi my name is Brian Campbell I am part time Uber and Lyft driver in atlanta Georgia I don’t understand why they bring back Uber pool it is not making us no money. We are not making nothing extra from Uber pool. Lyft discontinued Lyft pool
We got this in New Jersey a few days ago. On Day 1....share and X were separated. The next day they were combined.
Same in Georgia
I don’t take them eaither. I’m in New Jersey lol. Most of my tips comes from uberx comfort and airports
If it’s two guys going to the airport, I might accept. If it’s two drunks coming back from the bar, no way.
The cheaper the ride (shared), the cheaper the rider (no tip) and the more likely your rating goes down and/or a false report is filed Uber where *you* get de-platformed and *their* already cheap ride becomes free. That’s my experience with 1 of the 4 Uber pool rides I gave out compared to the multiple thousands I’ve given overall.
Like someone has already said, I will *never* voluntarily provide a shared ride.
_Every 1-star rating I ever received was from a shared Uber trip. And you’re spot on re: tipping… or lack thereof._
I usually get tips 5/10 times from Uber share even if small amounts
Yeah I am fed up with Uber. Took a 15 mile trip that took 25 minutes and only made 10.74
Took another trip 1/2 the distance and made 10.00 standard UberX Ride. Ridiculous
Why would you accept that you dont have too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That why you needs 🍒🍒🍒🍒🍒
@@DLDL288 i need what?
@@jonah426 yep 👍🏻
They can't even get drivers to take multiple stop rides in the Hampton Roads market. Good luck rolling out shared rides here.
I am a Uber driver 95% of the time, so, if this happens to be what they are doing, I will use Lyft 100% of time, even if I make a (few bucks less). It’s not going to kill me or make me as this is not my main source of income.
I won't take shared rides, ever, period!
Chris your posting alerted me in the fact that currently I don’t take share rides but because in San Francisco having a Diamond rating with the priority queue at the airport is a must and last month I took a couple weeks off (my first month of the quarter accruing points to reach Diamond tier), so I’m way behind in my goal of 800 points per month, I’m turning my share rides on today to speed up the point count. That’s the main advantage of Uber share as long the destinations stay within the geographical radius of the first ride.
You said 800 points I thought it was 1800
@@robinthomas0954 it’s 2.400 points per quarter so my goal is 800 points per month
This is horrible, this going create more problems. It's already terrible having a single rider. Why all these changes without our promission
If you don’t like driving passengers why don’t you find a different job?
More creepy, smelly riders 😢
@@JC-mn2ll Because we like to work when we want to..
On our terms.🎉
@@joeballzee2767 then start your own business or do doordash. If it was on your terms you wouldn’t be doing something you don’t like doing
@@JC-mn2ll We have to continuously make it on our terms dodging every obstacle that comes our way...We should not have to put up with Uber rules as independent contractors..
I am building my own clientele soon enough I will be free from these chains.
I hate shares. The hardest thing to do is pickup in big cities, so this makes it twice as tough.
Other factors you didn't mention, are A. You don't have the option to pick up a shared ride, but then log off in advanced so that you don't get an additional shared ride... it will give you one anyways if one is requested.... and B. Shared rides don't equate to multiple rides. If you picked a shared ride with 3 riders getting picked up separately (which happened to me today!), it will not count as 3 rides.. only 1. So the entire hour I was giving a this triple shared ride, I thought it was going to count as 3 rides towards my bonus... but it didn't. Just 1. I will never do shared rides again for that reason alone.
Same, thumbs up!
I thought declining and canceling shared rides would result in no penalty. I had read that in the terms
I've done Uber share rides, -not cost effective to drivers.And the pax I picked up.Did not like it!!!Reaction!!being people don't want someone else knowing where they live and how they live , it makes them very uncomfortable,- it brings the stranger danger sense up, !Quoted from a pax when I drove in Atlanta especially coming from the airport or a day of shopping.
I was wondering how this worked. I was Soo pissed yesterday. I showed up at the mall not realizing that four people...FOUR Just came to my car..and just hopped in👀😳. Now, my car is only comfortable with two, in the back, not 3 and a possible....in the front seat...😤. It happened twice.🤦🏽♂️ My car went from comfortable party of one to a club UberX in minutes. It didn't say shared y'all. Not one time. I'm thinking I'm picking up one person.🤔 😖...
What do you do when you show up and there's a village trying to catch a ride. Drive off? Then when you say why, they can still give a bad rating and that impacts. What do ya do🤷🏾♂️
Hmmm, your post confuses me because a shared ride request is for 1 seat only per requester. If four people got in on a shared ride you were supposed to cancel and that is a canned option "too many riders".
I have lyft xl
Now lyft is forcing me to drive lyft standard
I txt them they say i could change my preferences from my app I tried but it doesn’t work
In my market, failure to accept shared rides doesn't affect ones uber pro status as stated in the program introduction info.
Where is your market?
In typical Uber fashion they included the combined checkbox in the last software update I did, 4:14 so this morning I picked a girl up and was taking her to work and there was a pick up for another person and I said oh we’re picking someone else up. She says I don’t know, I picked a shared ride, which was a complete surprise to me. The two girls actually were telling stories about getting into a shared ride with guys that were coming from the bars and were trying to pick them up the whole time they were driving, so it’s a nightmare, waiting to happen, I don’t want any part of it and I guess I have to pay closer attention to what rides I pick in the future
I am glad I saw this video. As.a frequent UberX rider, i was curious as to how that all works for drivers if they have preferences as to the type of rides they pick up.
This channel is very helpful for riders. I would recommend checking in frequently 😎
Shared are the creme de la trash rides. Most drivers will decline them entirely myself included.
@MileHighCatMom, my fear is picking up two different riders who get into an argument in my car. Share my work for airport shuttles but uber. I don't know. More people in your car. Is it more pay or you get paid once?
@@Poppinoffchannel i cant speak on more pay. I never thought that. Faster rides for bonuses yes. But shared in my experience is where your rating takes a major hit. From cheap people wanting more cheap free stuff. At the drivers expense. But yea ive also had people not get along and that can really be scary. Here they dont allow shared to, or from the airport thankfully. We already have pax catfishing cars using diff tiers thinking they get more luggage space.🙄 Comfort on Uber and Preferred on Lyft.
I don’t accept Uber share !!! Uber makes money but drivers don’t ! Plus Uber share clients don’t tip😢😢😢
When they did it before some riders were pissed. I would pick up one rider then pick up two more and then drop off one rider while the first rider was still in the car going to work. I got one yesterday and it automatically came in and I cancelled it
Nah they are not forcing you to take shared rides, they are forcing you to the lyft platform
They are forcing in Spain. They have it mixed but you can close your session with your first rider on board and reopen session when she gets out. That's how I get around it
I'm going to start doing this..I heard that they were giving out warnings not to do this but I HATE not knowing where I'm going. Theyll just add on 45 minutes to my trip thinking I want an 1 hour trip back home. Total bs
NJ we don't c duration n direction of ride if acceptance rate is less than 85%. But still I'm not doing share ride, Total loss for driver.
It's weird because earlier this year, and only very briefly (about a day or two), there was a standalone selection/checkbox for Share in the trip preferences. They relatively quickly removed it. They obviously botched a code deployment.
In the Las Vegas market they just recently combined UberX and Share within the same preference check box in the app. They are obviously pushing "shared rides" again for some reason? I guess I will now need to pay extra attention to what type of ride I choose at any given time. I'm not too keen on "shared" rides for a variety of reasons. I think most passengers would rather experience a "private ride" without any additional passengers even if it did cost a little more. All this just complicates things a bit more.
I agree, combining X and Shared rides does make it more complicated.
I considered doing shared rides when first it was ok after pandemic restrictions eased up. Almost nobody was requesting or they were too far away to be worth the effort, so I stopped altogether. Now I am no shared rides and these days I'm less inclined to do multiple stop rides as well.
if uber show the amount and the drop off location B4 rides .. like they do with uber food delivery then ppl will do uberrides
Yep. Can confirm. uber just launched shared in my market (Tampa Bay). uberx & ubershare are bound together in a single option. I'm sure the reason is simple, in markets where it's two separate options, not enough drivers are turning it on.
Lyft got rid of shared rides
In Washington DC we have the X and shared. I did notice more uber green request by passengers because I own a hybrid however I don't know if it's a coincidence. I was looking to see how to opt-out but no luck on youtube.
Seems to me Uber has plenty of drivers and riders don't need to share
I think share is a tremendous liability for the driver and will never accept them. What if late night I get a young woman who is drunk and a guy joins the share whose also drink. Now he starts bullying her or hassling her in some other manner. Am I supposed to be the cop who breaks up the fight? This is another of Uber money makers that abuses the driver. I’ve expressed this to Uber telling them if I’m an Independent Business Owner than I should be able to manage my business. They instructed me that the “workaround” is to shut off additional requests as soon as I get the first shared rider! That means I have to log on again after I drop that rider and won’t have a trip waiting at the drop off. More lost money!
My market has Lyft Shared. Because of that, I do only XL and Lux.
Just hit stop request after accepting the first pickup simple won’t effect rating.
You don’t even know the ramifications for that lol I wish I could tell you what happens afterwards when you do this, but not gonna feed people free information. I’m not here to help others not with you but at least it’s everybody for themselves.
When I was in orange county it combined. But when I went to la county it seperated 🤷🏻♀️
Today they combine in LA I heard.
Uber is screwing both drivers and passanger and it's very dangerous and you know these people Not going to Tip you. You, can except Uber Share and before the ride get started go hit Stop New Request. It will not effect your rating!
I hate shared rides sometimes. In Dallas area UberX and Shared is a combined. So we are forced to take them. You're driving and the app says rider has been added and then a few minutes later another rider is add without you being able to deny. I had 3 riders and as soon as I dropped off one rider a fourth person was added. I was force to take that person outside a desired driving distance. I was pissed.
I'll take it but once I accept the ride I hit stop requests until I'm close to the drop off and it works I don't get another shared ride. So basically turning it into an uber X.
Really a disappointing turn of events. I drove shared rides a few years ago with Lyft, and it's like driving a school bus. A pain in the butt, without any real benefit to the driver. I don't want strangers getting to know each other in my car, and also don't want to always have someone in the front passenger seat. And riders that are so concerned about cost as to want to share their ride are likely to be lousy tippers. Hopefully, it will be so unpopular in my city that they dump it. I've been trying to get support to add Uber Comfort to my preferences (I have Comfort Electric and Uber Green), but no one in support can seem to figure out why I can't see Comfort, which will be even more important to have as an option now. I've spent about five hours on the phone with support about it so far.
I don’t want to do the shared rides. And I won’t. I am loosing a lot of money lately because of this as it is all that Uber is issuing in my area. But I am standing my ground and hope others quit taking them too. But they I am guessing they are still doing them. I refuse to let Uber rip me off any longer. If doesn’t get better this month I will have to leave Uber all together. Tired of not making money.
Share ride is new in my area, and So far, i have declined all shared ride requests, only because I think my current passengers would not want to share their ride space with other people - so far so good with no negative consequences from Uber - but I wonder how long will Uber allow us to decline share ride requests? If it is profitable for Uber, then most likely it would be for the drivers too, since we are only picking up share ride that are already on our way to the final destination.
now in Chicago ...what a horrible thing is a sharing rides ...as night driver , taking sharing rides is nightmare ...taking drunk/drug person from the bar , and then pick up person going to work ! Hell NO!
Currently in my market in Atlanta we are not forced to accept Shared rides as we can ignore them without penalty to our acceptance rating but we cannot turn them off from appearing because they have been connected to UberX in the preferences. I also just received a message that yet another change has been made to shared rides allowing shared ride requests to now take "two" seats. I suppose enough people complained about being cancelled on because they did not read the "terms" of 1 seat only on shared rides. Of course only one of the riders can reserve two seats so that info may even have to be manually entered on the app so the app does not pair the driver with another two seat request. I myself have stopped taking shared rides since I do not like not knowing where I am going to end up since with co-riders added we have no idea where they are going. I had an add on end up going 75 miles away from town and decided to stop taking that risks anymore.
I kinda do shared rides right now. Two people get into the vehicle, there's one stop where someone gets out, and I go to the final destination. Normally, they're not strangers and I don't have to do more than one pickup.
Do drivers get paid what we want for longer drive times? Going into two different apartment complexes with speeds bumps then dropping off at two different locations is a lot wear and tear for the same price.
Drove alittle last night one after the other shared rides cancelled every one of them. They can lower my acceptance rate all they want, unless shared rides are paying a considerable amount more, will continue declining. Even if these rides do pay more there is this: About a year ago, a driver took a shared ride. One of the riders was schizophrenic had a gun, shot and killed other rider and the driver. The driver was from Queens, NY.
That can happen with an Uber x. Few years ago someone pulled a machete and stabbed the driver from the back…. Soooo yeahhhhh
I got a bonus offer for like $120 for 40 rides - the next few offers only got like $30 for 40 rides. It’s like daylight savings time, cutting off one end of a rug and sewing it on the other side.
First off , Uber takes 1/2 of the Fare they charge the Riders. The Uber driver should quit under those circumstances as they are being treated unfair . It's a rip off. You would be better off working at $15. Per hour saving you vehicle from depreciating with the miles you put on it. Uber expenses is minimal in comparison to what the drivers have. That is why Uber is a billion dollar industry. I know some drivers claim they earn 2-3 hundred a day. But they work long hours and of course expenses such as fuel need to come out of it. Which I belive to be $25 -30
I quit since they tried to send me on trips 10 miles away to earn $5.00 and consistently doing so threw out the day. As well want me to drive in what I consider dangerous areas such as B.more, Then long trips that paid very little with not return fares.
I'm glad I live in an area that doesn't have pool share. I live about 70 mi from LA. I know it's down there but I have it disabled in my app when I end up in the area though. Most of the time I turn off my app when I end up in LA cuz I don't like driving in that area. I usually try to go towards Orange county or Riverside county or try to go back to my home county in San Bernardino county. I prefer to stay in San Bernardino county cuz it keeps me close to where I live and it's still quite busy and I don't have to deal with the traffic like it is in LA. I do hate LA traffic so much that I tend to just screw it and just head back to San Bernardino, Riverside or even Orange county
Not here yet but got notice of it coming. sorry, I have zero interest in this. sounds like it will be super stressful and I don't want to have to babysit grown adults and make sure they are playing nice. I dont get paid enough as it is!!!
Hi Chris, I recently started doing Uber Black and does a lower acceptance rate really matter and gets you deactivated on the Uber black account? Please reply back if you know the answer. Thank you!
Is it really so busy you have to decline work? I've never heard of this. The Uber Black drivers I have spoken to are grateful to get anything some days because depending on the day and what's going on in a market, you might find it is super slow
Here in Colorado Springs, we do not get those kinds of offers.
This happened to me. My Uber x preference was missing and a new box appeared that said Uber X and Share. I called in and they fixed it. I now have the choice.
They always had that when it was Uber Pool. Nothing is new with that. The moment I switched vehicles to an XL option it NEVER gave me the pool option. But the share option did appear, but if u don't get a second passenger that ride is the equivalence to an Uber X
After picking up a shared ride, I turn off new requests. It's worked for me up until now, I've never did a shared ride. I really wouldn't know how to do it
It may or may not pop up for you to pick up another rider as you have a rider in the car already. That person already knows there's a possibility you will get another request while you're taking them. You have the option to take or not take it. Either way, it's more time waiting on other people and I don't know that it's all that more profitable because you're doing maybe two instead of one ride. It's only good if you have trip number based quests.
My Uber Comfort has been combined into UberX for months.
That's actually a good thing
That's both weird and stupid because Comfort cars cost more to buy than X cars. Taking X with a Comfort car is a loser.
@Brent how long have u been a driver? As u know any car qualifies for X. Comfort is larger newer cars. Not necessarily more expensive. My van qualifies for Comfort. Having them combined isn't good or bad. It will just keep him busy. Nothing wrong with that.
@@bossbrent I think u are confusing comfort with Select or something.
@@j-rschmoove 6 long years. Newer means more expensive. A three year old car will always cost more to acquire and depreciate more per year/mile than a 12 year old car.
Here in Australia we always had uberX/share together and we call the uber share as uber pool here. People by mistake book uber pool thinking its uberX and we have to confirm before the rider hops into the car.
Honestly im not keen on shared rides. Ive seen it kill a good conversation and unless they are drunk it seems to put some stress on everyone.
heres the question.. are the share rides .. going to be counted as its onw ride not apart if the same trip.. like for quest if i do uber share will both those only be counted as 1 trip towards the quest or 2 trips cuz thts how uber gets u ..
GUYS!!!!! You have people getting in Uber shares thinking it’s just them then they get home 30-40 mins later than expected and only saved $2 lolllllll IF YOU USE IT PERSONALLY NEVERRR USE SHARE
I hate driving for uber. The last few years they have gotten to be jerks that want to pay drivers less and less and control the drivers. Drivers will have to come together stick to their guns go on strike or boycott uber. If not uber will get much worse for drivers.
I think it's time to switch over..
In Australia x and pool together but never had a pool even offered, would decline it if ever happens.
They will increase the wait time on shared . In Las Vegas riders take their time going to the pick up place . In Las Vegas we pick up at rideshare pick up areas . On Uberx they have 7 minutes . One share rider said I will be down in ten minutes . Like that would happen . If the customer calls and say they are somewhere else then by the time the call is over the red cancel comes up . After 2 minutes there is no penalty . This is bad for riders in Las Vegas .
I’m in San Jose, and my app still shows them as separate options.
They were very clear in stating that if we decline to take shared rides it would not count against our acceptance rate
False
It’s always your choice to accept UberX Share trip requests. If you do reject primary UberX Share requests or cancel requests along your route, you will not be penalized and it will not affect your Uber Pro status.
It will count. all unaccepted request are considered a decline. In a human sense no, however the Ai in the algorithm goes by numbers. Therefore it counts.
@@Joelmelvinthevoice Exactly why I don’t share or correct 95% of these guys lol They truly don’t know, but we do! 🔥
they say that.. but my rate still went down
You need to pay close attention that Uber specify that you can decline share rides without negative impact on your Uber account and that is meant that you can decline all of share rides without any problems.
Too much ware and tear on the veichle with all that weight
Just decline share rides and you be fine. It's not going affect your rating.
Go ahead and decline I PROMISE IT EFFECTS You. Especially when they don’t even categorize it as a share
Guys IF YOU CANCEL AN UBER X RIDE YOU WILL HAVE A PENALTY. They don’t even classify it when it’s on the screen as a share so you have no idea until you accept it. I’ve had 3-4 passengers being added and these dumb passengers don’t know how to add the proper amount of people entering the car. Especially the ghetto people who live on food stamps. I’m tired of doing dangerous areas but my rating is 4.99 4000 rides. The ghetto has been lowering my rating to 4.95 and I’ve worked hard to keep it back up to 4.99. Every lyft driver is a 5 star driver 😂😂😂 My tips are at 23%
Kinda off topic but the heat map here in western Massachusetts has been terribly broken. Im an experienced driver and very familiar with where I need to be and surge trends in my area. The heat map has sometimes been nonexistent some days. Now I’m seeing the grey purple unknown surges. AND the app has TOLD me I’m in a surge at the bottom but yet there IS NO SURGE COLOR. UUUGHGHG sorry. Support has not been helpful so now I’m here spreading the word to y’all that up here in western Massachusetts it has been very very frustrating. ✌🏼
I do have screenshots if want them
I’m in the Boston area and found it so aggravating, I turned off the app and went home. My Lyft privileges are wanting for a new TNC inspection and I’m renting a Tesla from Uber in the meantime. Never again!
Share is called 'pool' here in London UK where I drive and it's always been connected to x since its introduction a few years ago. Luckily passengers after trying that in the first year seem to hate it. I haven't received pool offer for years now🤗. If they try to send me that, I'll decline/cancel straight away. It should be separated preference from x for sure.
Uber share is a lot cheaper and drive doesn’t make enough to cove the gas specially here in the Phoenix area were reg gas is 5.19 per gallon 😮😮😮😮
Today out the blue I received a shared ride and the rider was so pissed at the fact he had to share the ride with someone else. He said he didn’t realize he selected a shared ride.
I worked last night ( Sat) and the entire night we had multiplier that covered 100% of our area due to two vary large city events. I did not receive any of the multipliers nor the surges for the ENTIRE time that I worked. EVERY trip should have had a multiplier with it but not one of them did. I know what the customers were charged for their rides and for whatever reason I was not paid the correct amount. Most of my rides last night were in the 1.5x range and this needs to be fixed. This was my first time as a new Uber Driver doing the surge and multipliers and it has left a very bad taste in my mouth. Please tell me that this is not the norm and you pay people correctly and what they are worth.
How do you know there were multiplayers or surge? Yes this is normal. Wish I could share as to why and how we get the surge. But I’m waiting on these experts to tell you guys and they haven’t. I know how the entire app works and what the algos are and when they change. I predict my night before I walk out the door and I’m off buy$2-3
I will stop request after every ride from this point forward. We getting screwed every chance uber changes something to benefit them and the riders.
I think its nothing but trouble.. say you are at walmart and have to pick up two riders with all their 500 bags of groceries.. its not going to go well.. I dont want to do this, fortunately its not in my area yet
I may start driving for Lyft. I will decline every share request if I see it. I will turn off the app until I drop off
Same here. Lyft sound good right now.
They used to do this with UberPool. They had it with X at the same time before the pandemic. So far X share is still separate in Los Angeles. Lyft was smart enough to abolish shared rides. Thankfully, there’s some California markets that most likely will never get it at all.
Today, Uber Share was just added in Los Angeles.
Is Uber Share now a new name for Guest Rides? I had a couple Rides yesterday that involved only a single rider that were classified as SHARE.
Some riders don't even understand that they're sharing a ride with another Uber passenger. They picked Uber Share because it was the cheapest option. If I accidentally choose a shared ride by mistake, I turn off notifications. I had a young woman and her two small children in the back seat for a shared ride. She was clueless, so I simply turned off notifications and told her to pick Uber X if she didn't want passengers. Personally, I think it's a pain in the ass to be redirected in the middle of a trip to pick up another person.
Also, if you accept a shared ride, they can keep adding more stops without you having to accept them. It’s like you have to turn off accepting rides completely.
Hell to the no I am not taking shared ride's.
It came to Atlanta this past Wednesday.
Doing lyft.
if they really wanted to push it they should make sweet weekdays and weekend share ride promotions for us; pay us decently and we turn up, and give us the option to opt out if we don't want it, let us decide if we want the extra $
Exactly. When they first rolled it out, it was a choice to opt-in, then it disappeared, and came back combined because Uber knows that drivers will uncheck the box
Drivers are afraid of the stigma UberPOOL had, they fear Uber X share is going to have the same headaches that many suffered in the past such as extremely low payout, endless matching, & picking up up to two riders per location. Uber X Share guarantees only two riders are matched, they ride in the back seats & rider's pick up location are 8 minutes apart going the same direction no more back tracking to pick up a rider according to Uber.
I have separate UberX and Share and UberX by itself. I feel that because I only have UberX checked, I am being denied requests. Last weekend I made less than $10/hr and still need to put gas and I am on a rental.
They control everything when the driver is busy in the surge hours, I always have the 4.9 ⭐ rating on riders to stay away from drama and trouble makers, when I go to drop off in a high crime area, the rider rating option disappear
Hello. Is there a way i can email you? I have a few questions and an issue I'd like to discuss if possible. Thanks in advance. I am on several gig platforms. Good day to all the drivers/deliverers out there.
Thank god in tulsa ok share rides are not an option still bc we are a small market
Phoenix driver and no to shared rides. Not a choice in my market. UberX & shared combined in preferences.