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90% of my pings are trash radar now. It’s so bad and distracting. I’ve switched to Lyft completely because of it

$2.60 for a ride?! My acceptance rate went from 98% to about 6% and I’ve driven many times 50 miles refusing every single ride because they are all trash, problem with going with Lyft is they are no different best practice tells me to stop driving all together if we all stop then there is no Uber or Lyft

They always offer a trip radar first, and if no driver accepts it, they keep requesting a regular trip. If drivers decline the regular trip, they repeatedly offer it again and again using the trip radar. This process is very frustrating and annoying. As a result, my acceptance rate is always between 1 to 5 percent.

I'll see an offer come up, if I don't take it, I'll see it pop up on trip radar. Usually when I see it come up on radar the price drops about $0.50 to a $1.00 then it's happened where it'll come off of radar and come right back to me at the lower offer. Causing me to not accept the ride twice and affecting my rate 2x as much. It's so bad

20% here. I cannot be bothered with thrash

Trip radar is also kinda dangerous especially when driving as you’re taking your eyes off the road because you’re having to see and select or decline within a second or two.

It's way too common for a trip radar trip to get declined by a driver only to have the same trip show up next as "exclusive" to the driver who just declined it. Take the hint, Uber!

uber stole my tips so i don't drive for them any more.

I used to be 90% …I’m at 48% today and it will continue to decline

They are auctioning trips which is unethical, amoral, and illegal.

Connect your phone to car with bluetooth. I listen to my XM radio and the beeping noise is gone and i just see the upfront info.

What I think with regards to improvements is this: Each driver should be able to choose their list of options that they will or will not do. (1) They should be able to manually choose pickup/drop off destinations they are willing to go to (perhaps have a circular radius you can drag for each spot they will go to and will not go to. (2) Drivers should be able to manually choose the hourly rate they are willing to accept (3) Drivers should be manually able to choose the $ per mile rate they are willing to accept. (4) Drivers should be able to choose specialty fee rates (such as extra wait time fees, for customers who decide to piss your time away while you're waiting to pick them up). (5) Drivers should be able to choose cancellation fees, especially fees for such things as underaged minors who book rides and do not have an accompanying adult. (6) Drivers should be able to refuse multiple stops or be able to choose fees and/or charge for multiple stops if they are added. (7) Uber needs to block multiple stops from being added when a 2nd ride has been confirmed. I've had this happen, where a 2nd ride was booked, then the asshat 1st rider decides to add another stop, which effectively screws over the 2nd rider who is waiting for you to get to them. (8) Uber needs to make a much easier way to quickly view incoming ride requests. As it is, they make driving unsafe when they pop up, especially when they pop up during heavy traffic times when you are on the freeway. I do pray for those of you who have gotten into accidents from this very thing, that you file a lawsuit against uber. Because this app puts drivers in immediate danger when these pop-ups come up and you're busy on the road. Your forced to take your attention off the road and look over the ride. Especially if you're concerned over acceptance rating, you're forced to make a decision to take such rides. (9) Uber needs to alter cancellation fees. $5 for travelling several miles to pick up someone and having to wait, in addition to this travel time and gas, 7 minutes...for $5 is unacceptable. They have this very thing for unaccompanied minors because they want drivers to take the rides and therefore be liable for if anything goes wrong, while they still make money (just another way Uber doesn't give a shit about riders, but treats them like dirt). (10) Uber needs to show pickup and dropoff locations on both trip radar rides, as well as personally offered rides (the blue bar ones). To not show this info is to deceive the rider, intentionally done by Uber so that they can't see these things because they know the drivers won't take the ride if they know where on the map they are. Uber, stop being douches. (11) Uber needs to stop punishing drivers for not taking shit jobs. I will never take a job that pays $3,4,5,6,7. That is pocket change and half the time it isn't even worth me starting up my car. Stop giving me shit jobs uber. I'm worth more than that. Idiots. Remove your acceptance rating hit. In fact, remove acceptance rating altogether. Your perks for gold, diamond, etc are just a scam anyway. All those perks you can get from those you can get for free online. (12) Just close your company down. You people are immoral, disgusting degenerates that are pretty much hated by every driver who has been with you more than a few months and is intelligent enough to see all your pathetic, immoral tactics you use to screw over and manipulate your riders so you can make a buck. You disgust us and I can't wait for the day you are forced to file chapter 11. I will find great joy when this day finally comes to pass.

I used to be a platinum driver. Now I am blue da bah dee da bah daa. My a/r is at 8% and dropping.

The other thing with trip radar. In a split second after getting it. Before I could even reach to the phone to except it’s already gone. and my acceptance rate is 85%. Yet somehow other drivers beat me to it. And if I’m moving down the freeway I’m now further from the consumer not closer to them. It comes back. And now I can read it. And I realize wow I was right there. Way back there. And that’s when I don’t bother excepting it. Because now I’ve added a mile possibly 2 miles from where the original hit came in from. It’s ridiculous

Trip radar isn't the issue. Upfront fares are the issue. Best option would be more filters on destination. Example: Ride to my destination and only ride > 10 miles for example. After big events I'm looking for a ride back to my home area that is 30 miles from downtown. I want a nice surge ride back home. I'll decline 20-30+ rides until I find that one. Just give me the damn ride I can filter for in the first place.

Trip radar is distracting. Why should I have to look for exclusive on a ride when there is other information I need to check when a ride comes up. I think trip radar is a disguise that Uber uses to get the ride to the driver that they can pay the least amount for the ride. I have been driving more and more Lyft recently. Also the 7 minutes a driver has to wait to be able to get paid to cancel is complete crap. The rider requested the ride and should be ready when the ride gets to them. I cancel a lot after 2 minutes when it is busy. It pays just to loss the time and move on to the next ride.

Uber Reps admit that destination does not work properly!

i agree with you. i completely hate trip radar! i drive for uber and lyft in south texas and we primarily get the trip radar at the only airport from the 3 in the area that actually has a first in/first out queue and the trip radar circumvents by skipping drivers who've been waiting longest in the queue. i no longer push myself to reach diamond level again because of this. sadly, we don't get to see how much the fare is on any ride until it's completed. for gold and higher, we only see the duration of the trip and the long trips are where we make the most money obviously. for lyft, we don't have a FIFO queue at the airport so i could be sitting and waiting for a trip to come in from the terminal and lyft will throw a bullshit trip at me with a pick up 8 miles away and a dropoff 2 miles from the pickup. my acceptance rate on lyft is 9% because i refuse to take nickel and dime trips that don't pay well.

Uber let’s celebrate together. No distractions month by banning trip radar.

I stopped driving for Uber & UbeEats more than 2 months ago due to this kind of stuff. Share rides returning, low pay, etc are a deal breaker for me. If they change to treating drives better, I would 'consider' returning but I don't see a reason to subject myself to working with them any longer.

No trip radar here in Augusta, and Lyft is dirt cheap unless there’s a bonus area, hour or challenge

Trip radar is very annoying. Most of the time the trips be at least 20 mi away and it feels like a lot of trash on your phone. The app is doing too much

I just turned Uber off all day and went with Lyft, which is better. Uber, 95%, is making less than Lyft. When you cancel Uber rides for bad pickup or not worth your time, it counts against the driver. So they make sure you don't want to cancel the ride even if the pickup locations are too far and dangerous. Uber will punish drivers for cancellation. SAD.

My AR and CR are both high and I don't even care if they deactivate me anymore. I'm tired of working for scam artists (the entire gig economy).

I’m fine with up front fares. I’m not ok with the fare having no discernible basis.

Why do you want to get rid of upfront fare. I dont even have access to upfront fare in westchester county new york. I wish i have that. I would be able to see where these passengers is going. Vs pulling up and have to cancel when they going some crazy places with too much traffic.

Trip radar has some serious issues. I have excepted many trip radar rides only to not get them. Now five minutes goes by. Sometimes 10 minutes goes by. I get the same request on trip radar. I’ll ignore it. Then it comes in as a regular call. I accept it. I pick up the consumer. And ask them. How hard was it to get a car. They will literally explain to me. It searched for a car for five minutes. A driver took it and canceled it. Another five minutes goes by. A driver took it and canceled it. Then I took it and showed up. What is the purpose of wasting a consumers time. Wasting a drivers time. And consumers are even saying it takes longer to get a driver. So what’s the purpose of it. It’s not working all that well.

In Vegas, trip radar will send 40-50 requests per minute during prak hours on Friday and Saturday night. 99% of them are crap but have to be declined or it will keep beeping. This causes us to drive one handed and take our eyes off the road far more than we should.

I don't understand why the app will send me a request for a ride that is 3 miles away, but show a trip in radar that's less than 0.5 miles away.

I'm also in MSP. I noticed Uber is trying to hide the real address. For example the drop city will be listed as Saint Paul the actual destination is the other side of Eagan. I agree it's annoying!

People getting accident because of Radar, we should report to government because of safety

My biggest problem with trip radar is that it gives me a never ending stream of ping for modes that I have turned off. And for trips going in another direction when I set a destination filter.

I agree Trip Rader sucks. But I had to loosen what I would take because my market is over Saturated with drivers. I can sit in my car, making nothing or keep the car moving making something.

Cutting the quest, promos, etc has made me much more selective. Couple weeks ago i drove 12 hours on a Wednesday and made $316. I never made that much before. The thing i don't like is them kicking us off if we decline 2 rides in a row. Then when you're dropping off a passenger it just constantly sends you request. It makes look Uber desperate.

Uber doesn't realize that in the long run it isn't winning against drivers.

DF no longer works in Chicago as Uber kicks you offline after you reject 3-4 pings.

7% here. F them, I turn it off or they make me accidentally accept as I try to log out, then I have to cancel. Bad experience for drivers and riders.

In my market, Lyft is offering even worse. $7 for 20 minutes? Give me a break! At least Uber typically offers something around $7 for 14-16 minutes! But yes, trip radar needs to burn.

I tried to use destination mode and couldn't because of trip radar. it will also kick you off line really quick if you dont respond

How do you determine the dollar per mile you are willing to take?

I just started with Uber. Where is trip radar on the app? I looked, but didn't see it?

How about “time sensitive trips request” without time sensitive rates…,

Who else has trouble with Lyft, on when people leave things in your car, cell phone, etc, . customer wants it back, I am supposed to get $20 to return it to them on my own time, Lyft never pays the $20, why should I return? except I am just a nice person?

Why would you accept $1/mile during rush hour? Makes no sense. Time is what matters.

Mile & minute rate cards are the ONLY way to go ... Upfront pricing is a SCAM!

What’s annoying is that you ignore the trip radar offer then Uber still directly send it to you, then again you ignore it to which it affects your acceptance rate. Riders are suffering too. Pick up to airport 22 minutes, drop the off $22 minutes for $12, early in the morning. If I didn’t make up my mind and go in one such request, the passenger would have missed their flight. Comfort rides fare are sometimes lower than regular as well. Uber and Lyft are exploiting drivers and riders, what a shame no one is doing anything about it.

I agree completely! The constant pinging drives me crazy...would love to be able to turn it off!! I was a Diamond driver but I've been turning down so many of these trash rides that over the past few months, I've dwindled back down to regular (blue) status. I haven't done Lyft so I can't speak for it, but Uber is trash and I've stopped doing rideshare.

I dislike trip radar for its small print. I'm in traffic and have to read destination and total elapsed time details again in small print.

What's a rate card? And given that you get fare & destination info, why do people seem to hate upf? If I didn't get fare & destination info, I doubt I would continue to drive

28% AR is very high considering all the garbage trip pings and radars. If you were in Chicago it would be under 15% if youre a smart driver.

I can never see the dollar amount just the minutes. What am I doing wrong?

Lyft does the same, they send u a request and send it to several drivers at the same time, thats why some disapear after 1 second and others take 6 seconds

If you dont click on the trip radar to see if you get matched. The app needs to stop sending it as a request to you later.

Sometimes, at least in SD in Cali, during in rush hour you can get good ones because drivers one a different one. Also trip radar works in the airport. Sometimes I get good ones

Yes the rides pop up in trip radar 90% not what I am looking for in the Phoenix market. I like up front prices and like knowing the destination. The big issue I am having is that most of pickups are a city away 10-15miles away to just pick passengers up. When I am sitting in area a lot of requests should be closer. Like casinos and downtown of cities, other spots with normal high demand. The app wants me go 13 miles away to pick someone up. There should be requests within a mile normally. I just turn off app for few minutes and turn it back on.

If I go online and first thing I see is trip radar, I immediately go offline and take a few minutes break.

I don’t understand why we can only use our preferred destination no more than 2 hrs a day

I do U.E. full time. I’ve done over 8,000 deliveries. The Trip Radar ruins my day, every day. My acceptance rate is 23%. Rarely do I ever take a trip radar order. It’s the sounds that distract and frustrate me to the point of having to log out. This happens every day. I do Instacart instead. It’s the only thing I dislike about Uber. I just wish there was an option or mute. No kidding, sometimes I feel assaulted, like it has a serious negative effect on me emotionally, and psychologically. To hear those noises for a full shift every day is a lot to deal with. I have to log out. Only because of the Trip Radar. If it makes drivers want to log out and drive for other platforms, that must be the worst idea they’ve ever come up with.

Trip Radar needs to have an off/on toggle option like they do for rider rating filter and auto except.

Trip radar is a holding point. For trips that are waiting to be assigned. Uber can’t pay drivers but they also can’t let the money go back to the rider. They would rather make the rider wait so long before a request is accepted by placing it in the trip radar. I think this is why I’m some areas riders complain about the length wait time before their request are accepted. I get this all the time. I have always told riders that Uber is the barrier here. Drivers are always around but the money offered on these request is garbage which means not being accepted and lengthening your wait time before your request is accepted.

And I worry about my acceptance rate going below 94% I have been concentrating on Diamond status. What is your suggestion please

Here, Trip radar is also for when there are not a lot of requests and are a bidding platform for us. The market is over saturated. I do know that when a trip radar comes in, if I dont want it, dont accept, it often times will slap into being an ride request where my acceptance rate goes down. I go on "break" till it passes to avoid that crap. I do notice that if they want me to take a ride that is outside the boundaries of where I am going to drive. I have selected to stay in a small area when surge is popping to make the most $, I will get those radar requests for outside the area. Lyft is not lifting much lately! They ripped me off for the last time a month ago. I cant do lyft anymore, it makes me sick!

Does it count against us if we decline the trips in trip radar? I thought this was optional.

I hate when they come up and is outside your destination, you don't get extra time added if you accept SMH

I hate trip rader matching and then have my trip taken from me just pissed me off plus not knowing exactly where my drop off going to be smh get rid of trip radar.

It's unbelievable. Lyft sent me a ride 25 minutes away for just a 3-minute ride request. What were they thinking? I didn't take it. It looks like drivers are tired of scams or abuse from companies.

Uber really don’t care, only way to battle uber is to come up with some sort of union that can hit uber financially, then uber would listen.

Uber is becoming annoying for the customer too. It is taking longer for a trip to be accepted by driver, so the rider waits and waits. And wait times after the ride has been accepted is a joke. I have waited 15 minutes for a driver who was supposed to arrive in just 2 minutes.

Must be where you all live. I saw trip radar for the first time yesterday since before Christmas. And the only time I’ve ever had it pop up was while I was in the airport queue.

My acceptance is down to 31% its all garbage then kick me off after denying two rides. I do not get anything but trip radar requests period. 25 minute pickups?

What I hate is when Uber and Lyft send you a ride and you decline the ride, then about five minutes later they send you the same ride again because there were no other drivers in the area. Look LYFT and Uber, I declined the damn ride for a reason, I do not want it, so please stop sending it to me. Text the customer and tell them that there are no drivers in the area and they’ll have to try again later, it’s not that hard.

Trip radar is useful, especially now that they show maps. I may find a trip going in a direction I want to go, or a short trip. I like seeing things outside of my destination, because destination mode can be used like a tether line to keep you in an area. For example I may rout myself to an area I want to drive in and look for trips in trip radar that stay in the area I want to be. Destination mode is poorly implemented and rides it says going toward destination actually often take you away from area . I hate how Uber dings your stats when you reject rides that take you away from your destination. The crap they claim takes you toward destination is ridiculous. Tonight I was 7 min from home and uber showed me a ride pickup 14 mins away that go to a destination 40 mins away from my home. So how is a ride that takes me 33 minutes in opposite direction a ride that Uber says is going towards my destination? If I took that ride it would have added over an hour of time before I could be at home because you have to double the time for the round trip going in wrong direction. Destinatnation seems to exist to make it hard for you to reach your destination unless you regect lots of rides.

Preference Settings are Futile. I am not sure what Uber is up to. Disregard my Preference selection

Thank you! Exactly, when I'm on destination mode, I don't give a rat's ass about what is outside my destination!!! It's really disruptive! The beeping is unnerving. Especially, because most of them are $3 rides

Wrong live request never went out, they lowball auction in trip radar and the left over is what they give you

How do you guys get good rides with such a low acceptance rate? I dropped 1% below and I was only making like $6 or $7 bucks a trip, all I got was crappy trips.

I agree, trip radar is annoying, but how about this, about two weeks ago i fell it was not safe for me to get a long trip so i chose to open the drive to destination option. Second ride they throw at me, after ignoring the first drive because pickup was too far, i get a ride to pick up someone 8 miles in the opposite direction!!!. Big deal!!, it cost me an additional 16 miles, it would have been better for me to drive with no riders.

I’m so glad I can turn off new trips while driving someone to their destination and I too hate when I get trips out of my destination.

I got deactivated from Uber about two months ago for some duplicate account. I never got it resolved and they actually prevented me from resolving it and then just permanently deleted me. Since then I’ve been driving lyft and it’s so much better. it honestly seems to me that Lyft does not want drivers to drive anymore. That’s the only thing I can make sense of. I feel like they want to flush the system up certain types of drivers.

If your exception rate is 27% min is 8% and I agree with you 💯 trip radar has to go.

I think Lyft takes more than their share of the fare. I had a trip today that was over an hour drive and was paid $32 and over 55 miles at the least it should’ve been around $45. Lyft doesn’t seem to remember that gas is expensive and it’s my car

Not only that but if you accept a trip over trip radar that trip doesn't count in favor of your acceptance rate.✌️

Even tho trip gaydar is trash sometimes it has saved my bad days and it helps me skip the 2000cars at the airport

Does anyone else have the problem of going online, then at the bottom of the screen it says “You’re Online”. If I am in an area that has a few drivers, this message will soon begin to toggle with another message: “Finding Trips” However, if I go to an area that is saturated with other drivers OR if I have rejected a lot of requests, the toggling stops and only the message “You’re Online” remains. When the app is in this mode, the ONLY requests that come through are trip radar requests. I take that to mean the app is NOT finding new rides for me and just sending the scraps. If I stay in a driver infested area, it can stay in that mode for an hour or more. But the minute I drive to location with less driver saturation, the message begin to toggle again and new requests begin popping up again. I think it’s a very subtle way to throttle those who aren’t playing the game the way they want us to.

my accepting rate went down from 95 to 22 percent as of today

I love the upfront fares and the trip radar. It makes my choice of accepting or not much easier

I am kinda shocked that your Acceptance Rating is 28% without getting deactivated by Uber. My dad had his down to a 45% and Uber deactivate him real quick.

Uber destination mode this week has been even worse. I'm going NW of town to get some sleep... Uber pings me with a request going SE of town... This is towards your destination.... NO TF IT'S NOT UBER🤷🏻‍♂️

Great video Joe, 100% correct!!!

If a trip radar ride is worth taking, 9 times out of 10 someone will have already taken it before you even tap it… if it’s not worth taking it you’ll get it as a regular ride request for a dollar less in a couple of minutes

Reading all the comments - Trip radar needs to go just because its a distraction while driving - But please listen to Joe .The more drivers who cancel or don't except trips the more money I make - Been averaging $320 to $380 at least until July 1 . Cheers

Uber GPS barely works

I hated trip radar because the large pop-up notification did not close automatically, need to press X to close it. This causing a distracting while driving. i almost get into accident many times because i'm trying to close the trip radar notification. This trip radar not just annoying but promoted distraction while driving. I will sue UBER if i got into accident. Personally i don't really care if trip radar exist or not, as long as UBER not forcing the pop-up notification. Either make it close out or disappear, why I have to keep reach out and try to close it everytime. If I need to look for trip radar, there should be a button to open trip radar when we need it. Because sometimes there're are a good and fair ride request in there. UBER dont have to get rid of it but change to way it present to driver. Don't make it a nuisance trip radar.

No because they're sending food deliveries to customers that are 23 miles away, like not a specialty restaurant, but like a jack in the box. How horrible for the customer. Why isn't the restaraunt closest to the customer assigned? When they order they can no longer see the location of the restaraunt ... Why would you order a jack in the box from 23 miles away? At first I thought it was a mistake like oops I ordered from the wrong location, but no Uber is sending the orders to the wrong retail locations. There are certainly closer locations to the customer.

Truth 🤣👍🏻👍🏻

I switch from Uber to Lyft then vice versa Lyft is an even bigger rip off so now I just do it sometimes on the weekends I just have both apps up. I’ve decided to go back to work during the week after having worked for both rideshare companies. I’ve racked up thousands of miles on both vehicles not to mention the crime. I’ll just do it when it benefits me from now on

The way they do the acceptance rate is crazy, they do not even offer 200 trips to rate a driver off that if that was the case we’d all be making hella money

I do not take any ride less than $2 a mile. Uber keeps sending the same ride with more money... when they get to $2 a mile I take it.

It's a good feature when you're sitting at an airport lot depending on your market.