I never accept a ride past 10 minutes period even though the acceptance rate quotations hurts but accepting these rides and becoming upside down hurts even more. They have features but all of their features really work against you and they interfere with your acceptance while on the app. A Lyft platform needs to be updated in the GPS does not work properly if you don't want to use the tools welcome to Texas
You can’t see the destination prior accepting. However, this guy’s video is complete bullshit. If you cancel after arrival time expire is policy but you wasted time getting there so $5 cancelling is silly as you’ll have to wait again. 95% of the time your fare will be in the car before you can cancel.
Ana Castellano it’s not clickbait you idiot. The feature isn’t available until you arrive, but it IS available and he explained it. Who’s the tool? Answer: you two.
Ana Castellano also, be pissed at Lyft not this dude. Why do you think they do it? It’s because a lot fewer people would get rides, or they’d wait forever for someone to be willing to drive 5 minutes down the road. They have tho do it like this. You take the good and bad. Jesus Christ
5 minutes is a more than reasonable waiting period. If you’re getting push notifications and know I’m 10 minutes out, it’s your responsibility if you miss your ride.
I take umbrage at his wording. You're not seeing the passenger's destination "ahead of time". You're already there. You've already driven there and tapped to arrive. Wasted time & money. Now, what would be much more appreciated from a business standpoint, is to see the destination before we accept the ride. That is the proper time. It's not fair to the passenger for someone to come all the way there and arrive and then suddenly cancel and take off. That's so not cool. Especially if they're going to the airport or work, and need to be there in a certain time and now have to wait for another driver. If you're not going to take someone, you should be rejecting or calling them immediately and letting them know so they can cancel immediately & not accrue a cancelation fee and you haven't got a ding on your Acceptance Rate or already made the drive. I think Lyft needs to get off its butt and actually allow the drivers to see the destination before we accept the ride. That is the time to pass it to someone else and to not have the passenger wait as long.
c.e.b. underpar , Thanks for your kind words. Yeah, I've always thought if they really wanted to treat us like independent contractors, then they have to give the full details of the job before we accept the assignment. Otherwise, it seems like we're just being treated like an employee who has to just do what's given to them, with only a small amount of choice.
@@kimberlywolfe3482 Well, the "independent contractor" thing it's just for legal reasons, so they can save on costs associated with having employees, but actually you are employees. Lyft doesn't want you to refuse any rides, cause then passengers are treated poorly.
exactly. the guy on the video is pro establishment. He is not keeping it real with his choice of words. AS drivers we should be able to see the distance to the passenger location prior to accepting it. Otherwise its like playing a slot machine.
@@edwardrossman9448 Yes, it's part of the business. Sometimes you get long rides sometimes short ones. You can't cherry pick just the one kind. People have to go all over the place. It's the nature of driving.
I no longer care. ..I go NO MORE THAN 3 miles or 6 minutes. I (like a fool) fell for that crap more than once. I will not call the rider. ..they ordered the ride, they know we're coming. "scheduled pick ups" hahahaha they tell you the ride is across town, between 12:30-1:30am, and the grand total. ..$2-3.....shit man, let me jump right on that one!
@@Tinalynn... Sometimes they won't pay you the $5 unless you fulfilled each check box, most notably making a call to rider, even if it is a token call in which you tell them you are out.
@@Tinalynn... Agreed, if the ride is more that 6 mins away I don't accept. To many times I've been caught out for a trip that miles away to receive a few $$ on a ride and not a penny tip.
@@Andrea-lq8so same here, fuck those long trips for $4. Only time I go far is if it clearly says Long Ride as the $2.75 bs ride would only end up costing ME money and it's clearly not worth it for a short BS trip to the 7 Eleven
Supastar Mar took the words right out of my mouth. After driving there there’s not much of an advantage to cancel. Might as well go with it in most situations.
Why can't I find out before I even start to travel to that passenger. I would like to know ahead of time where that passenger is going. I am tired of traveling 15-20 minutes for just a two minute drive. A waste of time and money for me...
As a spine injury person who takes short rides, I denounce drivers who cancel rides based on destination! Lyft, please, save your customers from these drivers! I'm paying you the money you asked for!
Absolutely. As a female driver there are definitely areas I don't want to go. Lyft does not take our safety seriously. Until they do, I will keep this as just a hobby, driving strictly daylight hours and in my small town where there pretty much AREN'T any unsafe zones. Anyway, it's all moot, b/c all these services will replace us with driverless cars in a few years anyway.
@@ColleenKitchen But what to say about it being racist not to go in those areas? Isn't it more important to make sure they are serviced? Feminism teaches is that women are equal to men, so going into those areas is needful. To refuse is to repudiate feminist teachings.
You need to read up the definition of feminism, honey. My safety trumps any -ism. No it is not more important than my safety to make sure that "certain areas" are serviced. Screw that. Especially not for what they pay us.
@Angry Trucker Tipping is a practice brought in from class-based societies like in Europe in the thirties by restauranteurs who wanted to save money. It was thought to be anti-American because it casts one person as the high-born patron, and that other as a servant whose meagre earnings are not enough. "Here my good man, bring a goose home to your wife for Christmas", you'd say, as you press a coin into the hand of the servant. It was beneath the dignity of freeborn men in a democracy then, and it still is. The employer should pay enough that the job is worth it to the employee. In a democracy, we need employees, not servers/servants. Fortunately, in the case of Uber and Lyft, the tip is included in the price already. Consider 12% of what you earn to be your tip, or, consider yourself to be a freeborn employee earning your wage.
The problem is, you should be able to see where the destination the driver needs to go to prior to excepting the job. That in itself will cut down on cancellations make it easier for the driver seat determine whether or not it’s in a safe area and it is not somewhere you want to drive in that city. So Lyft if you’re listening try doing that offering that to your drivers got on on your cancellation
Yes this is my issue I want to see destination before accepting. I only want local rides once got a ride that wanted to go 300 miles away. I had to cancel had kids to pickup in 2 hours. Had I seen before I would not have accepted in the first place I got penalized because they can't just add a simple feature.
BS - this drivers doesn’t get how he’s being used. There is literally NO contractor job on the planet, where the destination is not revealed to the contractor ahead of time. These ride share companies are abusing the drivers in a way no company should. EVER.
Ur not wrong but if enough customers can't get a ride because they either getting pickup up or dropped off in a less then optimal area then the company loses business and the ppl shouldn't be discriminated against for this. If a driver knows all the info then some ppl will suffer fir no good reason
Seriously though I was trying to earn an $18 streak and it put me 45 minutes away from where I lived and then tried to get me to go 45 minutes further how is this fair at all?!
@@TheReaIJeff it seems the "algorithm " is against you sometimes always at the wrong time. If its sunday and i need a bunch of rides for a bonus all my rides are long pick up amd or far away.
@@CPoppaB1tch exactly man.. I gave up on the $18... I unfortunately lost my job due to the office being shut down and am driving a type r that uses 93... They wasted SO much of my gas today... It's like $40 a day in gas on bad days lol.
@@TheReaIJeff damn since tou own a vehicle like that. Im sure you have a decent savings. Buy a small car for like 10k a peius or Carolla sometime good on gas. Go do your 40 hours should be able to pull on 1000 plus no issues. Until you either get another job or decide to go off grid lol.
dude, if you click the button that says you are here, after which it shows you the destination... you no longer have the ability to cancel the ride. It WILL charge the rider a fare.
Just accept every ride if you can,sometimes short ride but good tips ,i had one ride for 5 minuts lyft paid me 5 dollars,tipswas 7 dollars. So it was good money
I don't accept rides past 10 minutes maybe 12 because anything outside of that radius is driving too much for not being paid. I'm not driving 20 minutes out to pick anyone up unless I'm more than 20 minutes from my home
Cancelling the ride after arrival at the pickup location would increase your cancelation rate which would lead to deactivation even if Lyft never admits it to be the reason for deactivation. Also driving to the pickup location and finding out the destination of the passenger only after arrival is a waste of time, gas, mileage, energy and so on. Drivers should never be forced to gamble with their resources while Lyft has very little to lose. Being an independent contractor implies more freedom in accepting and denying requests which could not be without full information about the ride in advance. I assume that you know that already.
I would have 100% acceptance rate if i saw destination BEFORE accepting because i would have the info i need to make an informed decision to accept it in the first place so i would not even have to cancel.
I just started working for Lyft after working for Uber. The biggest problem for me here is that after I push “Pick Up Ride” it’s not showing me the rider’s destination’s address? Hello? Where are we going? Yes, I can zoom out on the map to see the destination, but why not give me the exact address of the destination so I would know exactly the name of the street where I’m going?
Lyft is not on the side of the driver - it's on the side of the customer. That will become apparent. If the driver was their prime consideration there wouldn't be such a great turn over.
My reference to acceptance rate is based on how I personally justify cancelling certain rides Cancellation rate is something to be aware of in terms of facing deactivation
Thank you, why give him a thumbs down? I almost got killed in some neighborhood. YOU'RE THE MAN!!! I drove clear across Florida, and wasted 1 hr of driving. This Lyft is looking like bag of shit now
I b thought this was about seeing destination before accepting. If your arriving at a passengers departure or pickup point then you ve already accepted. I hate accepting my last ride just before time to log off only to be surprised by a one hour and thirty minute ride.
I can do 8 short rides in an hour where I drive easily. At $3.00 each that adds up pretty quick! My acceptance rate was 98% last week. I cancelled one guy who was just being verbally abusive. Most weeks it's 100%.
I do Lyft as a side gig and have given up trying to appease Lyft by being 90% + acceptance. Lyft has sent me requests that were over 45 mins away and I have the screenshots to prove it. With no details about that ride provided at the time it comes in, I have to assume it's a short ride that will net me a couple dollars which means I'd spend my own money on time, gas, wear & tear. Quick math: 45 mins = approx 2 gallons of fuel @ $4.50/gal means I spent $9 of my own money just to get there plus whatever fuel to take the passenger to their destination. If it's a 10 mile ride then I'd make maybe $7. If the app has the audacity to send me that request and expect me to even consider it, then add a huge bonus to the ride payout. Otherwise it's like me giving people free rides on my dime.
If you're cancelling rides, it's bad for the community. If you can't drive, go offline and take a break or go home and chill. People need to get places and they're paying good money. Well, not good money, but so-so money. It's not bad money. The point is, refusals reflect badly on your reputation, as calculated by the dispatching computer.
@@THE-VVATCHER No, no, that's just it. Ride-sharing it about replacing taxis with a better experience for the customer, that's why it's so successful. If it was the same crap service as taxis, like refusing rides, then there would be no jobs for Uber and Lyft drivers. Nobody should get confused: customers are where the money comes from. It doesn't come from Uber. It doesn't come from Lift drivers. It comes from customers. That's why the customer is King, because we all want money. Don't take a job where you don't want to protect the goose laying the golden eggs. That goose is everything.
@@Arcsecant is it considered a better experience driving 20 minutes for a 5-minute trip? Or is it considered a better experience to be paid for your travel there as well as your travel to the location. Sounds like a fair experience equal to time for time is equal to money
Living in a suburb of mpls. I'm scared when I realize the destination is in mpls. Right now there are alot of car jackings. Thanks for this info. I will now be cancelling those rides.
I don't cancel rides because they're short I cancel rides when the pickup is over 5 or 6 miles if Lyft would guarantee me a fee that would cover my cost I would be glad to pick him up but they don't and 80% of the time I lose money and I will cancel
I just began driving for Lyft. On my 3rd day I picked up a fare which wanted to go over an hour & a half away. I took them but I didn't want to pick up another ride on the way home because I felt like it would take me farther from home. Is there away to know about these long rides before we accept them? There is no way to get in touch w/a person at Lyft to ask questions not already pre-programed into their page. I don't like not being able to talk to someone.
No. There is no way to know before accepting the ride. You got a good ride it sounds like 1.5 hours. On your next far ride drop off your passenger then set the destination mode to your home. You will only get rides that take you towards your house. None going farther away.
I had to drive a couple of tweakers 4.5 hours one way in a snow storm last night because of the inability to see first and have someone lock in, and, since I'm new, the desire to maintain a high acceptance rating. There is no other way to see where someone is going???
clickbate because you must accept the ride and drive to the passenger's location before seeing the destination. Most of the time the passenger is already getting in my car by the time I can see where they are going. Passengers are usually shocked when I tell them that we can't see their destination until they get in the car. My recent best was driving 11 miles down a 1 lane road in traffic (took me a full hour to make the drive. Called the passenger on the way to let her know it was going to take me so long and she said that's ok). I pick her up just to see that shes going 1 literal mile back in the direction I just came from. Spent almost two hours on this ride and made the $2.26 minimum. This is so very rude on the customers part, as they could have walked to their destination in a fraction of the time it took me to drive through traffic, pick her up, and then continue sitting i traffic for another half hour to go 1 mile. I understand the passenger is paying for the ride but in these situations the driver actually loses money. Not right.
Pete Differ it is true that you are required to call, you can however trick the app into thinking you made the call without actually calling by just tapping the call button and then pressing cancel
Thanks, good info. Another tip, to avoid a delicate situation of getting them again right away when they request a new ride is to remember their rating. I always make a point to do that. That way if another request comes up in the same area with the same rider rating, you know it's probably them. If you get them again after they were charged a noshow fee you know you're going to get 1 star.
Pete Differ I actually accept their request if they make it again, then when they get in I just say “hey, sorry about that last one, I tried calling but got no answer” most times pax understand and don’t get mad
Why do you keep saying “it’s nice of Lyft and “use this function ethically” is it ethical for them to not give me any information about a ride before I accept it which forces me to take someone further than I am willing to or is forcing me to pretty much pay to work after all the expenses are factored into the trip? I have been doing food delivery for a year now and the only way it is profitable is by declining any order that doesn’t net me the highest possible profit.. how am I supposed to make money when I’m wasting gas and time being forced to complete rides that aren’t profitable…
Trey Caldwell hey not only that but... somethings the f'in app will automatically call the rider. Without any driver input or action. You'll be sitting there watching the counter and moments later, (especially if your phone is linked to in car Bluetooth) your phone is ringing as if you actually tried calling the rider yourself. For this very reason I downloaded a call confirm app. This way the LYFT platform can't physically or remotely access my phone feature and dial up the rider. My phone would stop the action until I confirm that I want to make this call. Furthermore, you WILL NOT GET....I SAY AGAIN... YOU WILL NOT GET A NO SHOW FEE IF YOU DON'T MAKE AN ATTEMPT TO CONTACT THE RIDER. The no show option will be visible after you've waited 5 minutes, but if you tap no show, you don't get a no show fee. Here's my take on that. A rider requested for a ride. At the time you've accepted the ride, the rider now gets your eta. In addition to your eta, once you've arrived, they then receive an additional 5 minutes. Ugh... WTF? WHY? If the rider isn't capable enough to get out on time or within the 5 minutes... They their asses shouldn't be using the damn app. HELLO! So let me see...im supposed to contact a person that requested for a ride, they knew what my eta was, I've waited 5 minutes after arrival... And I must still call them? And say what? Hey douchebag... I'm still waiting in case you haven't noticed. What's next? Opening the door for them getting them into their booster seat, buckle them in and give them their binky & snack too? I shouldn't have to do shit. Hell...i wasn't the one that requested the ride, im here to make money and why waste my time because this rider isn't capable of getting out to the car within this window. I could be on another trip with a rider who can. More importantly... They should be waiting for us, not the other way around, we should wait for them. There's really no excuse for this. If you can't get to the driver in time then you deserve to be charged. That's you're penalty for what you've done. This hasn't been nipped in the bud yet because it's happening more and more. I bet after a few fees that won't be refunded or credit, they'll learn. Doing all this makes LYFT look desperate.... like they're begging riders to ride. When I cancel rides my rating drops. That's my penalty for doing what I did. But yet they rider can do this as often as they please? One thing is for sure, 100%... that's "LYFT HAS WAY TOO MUCH CONTROL." We're watched over like hawks, told what to do what not to do when to do how to do, but wait... aren't we subcontractors? Are we able to be our own boss? NO... We're treated like garbage, treated like employees, but only when it's convenient. Partners don't tell each other what to do, instead they come together to find a solution. It's always one sided with them.
I know Doordash doesn't do this. You can unassigned 20% of your orders. And it never auto accepts or queues order. What does Uber do? I'm thinking of ditching Lyft for Uber if Uber handles this in a way that is better for the drivers.
Not sure what "ethics" has to do with it. It's more about reputation. My 4.9 rating and 95% acceptance rate is good enough to keep Lyft and most of my passengers happy. On the other hand, the the things I would have to do to keep a 5.0 rating and 100% acceptance would definitely be _unethical_ (i.e. breaking traffic laws at the whim of the passenger or facilitating different forms of illicit activity.)
C4400: How can I lose money when I average $30/hr? And what do I get for my 4.95 rating? The ability to kick jackasses like you out of my car and still be keep a 4.9. 5000 rides with a 4.95 rating--I get massive respect from passengers all the time--and huge tips, including quite a bit of cash.
C4400: No, the art of polemics is 5000 years old, and trust me: I am infinitely better at it than you. To me, you're not a fish in a barrel, you're a sardine in a can--AKA lunch.
It's not helpful. I thought this video was about to see the destination before accepting the ride. If we've arrived at the destination and cancelling that would be very bad for passenger and driver until unless drive is too long like 45 mins plus. Passenger waiting time wasted and driver fuel wasted
Accepting every ride on the platform is not beneficial because the ride itself is not given upon who's available nearest to that Rider. It's more so first come first serve to the rental car vehicles. I think
Yes, Your video did answer the question of seeing destination prior. I just started so I could not see any action offline. I thought that odd,so I put myself ONLINE/LIVE/Apparenyly, available. Saw 1 passenger -showed up in town, -showed street, -but not where they wanted to go(I didnt even see passenger full name unless I had to press it again I don't know?). Say...Perhaps, I didn't have time to drive 1hr away. I thought this was about driving when we feel like it on our own increments of time. Anyhow, the light beeped after 15 sec saying something about how I didn't accept the ride.( I just didnt press buttons.) Now I feel Lyft is not user friendly AT ALL. BASICALLY, YOU showed us that drivers need to go "BLINDLY" to the close pickup 'After initially accepting the passenger- ONLY TO FIND OUT AT LAST MINUTE THAT THEY WANT TO TRAVEL TO EAST JAPEEPEE. Ridiculous, I think to be fair a driver (& passenger) should be able to see all available riders and their destinations. Then - press ONLINE, -CHOOSE the one you can commit to. Not sure about this whole Lyft setup. I'll probably try UBER. Thanks, loved your video your well versed!
I know I just started yesterday and I got ripped off by Lyft drove 12 miles away and only got payed 9 dollars I think it's the biggest scam ever I rather do doordash they pay me 10 dollars for 3 miles and more ...even though it will be nice to know how far we are going before we pick the ride with Lyft .no wonder this company it's getting richer ripping peeps off .jerks
Wow. Thanks so much. Absolutely will keep it ethical. I'm trying to learn how to set destination while in Airport Queue. Any info is greatly appreciated. NAMAATE~
YOU JUST SAID BEFORE ACCEPTING THE RIDE, NOW YOU SAYING AFTER ACCEPTING THE RIDE. THIS VIDEO IS A HUSTLE. SO SICK OF PEOPLE JUST REAPING EACH OTHER OFF.
acceptance rate has nothing to do with customers judging our reputation.....cancelation rate and star ratings are the biggest ...does having a low acceptance rate cause me to receive less rides
How many people we can cancel sometimes the passenger destination so far and get low pay. I have drive 1 hr 20 min get pay $40.47 I feel bad. Go and back about 3 hr.
That is very rude if you to have someone preparing for and awaiting your arrival, you come and then cancel because you don't want to go where they NEED to be! And then collect there money for not providing them a service! I hope Lyft gets a hold of you and deactivate you for Stealing because essentially that's what you're doing. What a douchebag of a human being you are. How about just call them after you've accepted it and ask where they're headed...Duh! Then you can canel early so you don't waste your time and theirs by driving there. If u cancel within the first few minutes No one gets taken advantage of
How about Lyft just show us what we're contracting to do in the first place and we can just ignore it from the get go if it doesn't suit us. I agree that accepting the ride and thereby eliminating the other drivers and driving to the passenger only to find that the passenger wants to go 50 miles the wrong way to a terrible hood without much chance for us to pay for the trip back is not ideal. I think the driver is only due a cancellation fee if the passenger fails to show. So telling us from the GET GO would be best for all, then some other driver who perhaps lives that direction could pick it up. And if no one grabbed it within five minutes the price could go up. I like the idea of calling them as soon as you accept as a work around. Maybe if everyone did this Lyft would start doing it for us.
How low will one cancellation affect your acceptance rating? I cancelled ONE ride and although I don't remember what my rating dropped to; I know it fell below 90%.
Yeah you can see it after you get there That's stupid I want to see you where they're going before I take the ride before I accept a ride. Because after you cancel that goes against you because you already accepted the ride to go there now you're going to cancel That's ridiculous It wasted your time and wasted the passengers time. Uber is better they show you everything up front.
I need a job real bad. Part time. I thought driving for Uber or Lyft would be perfect for me. Don’t know who to choose. With all the info I have on both... they are almost the same. Each have 1 other differences, that leans towards one.. Holding me back is, possibly going in now so nice areas. If I choose to work for 1. My Jeep is so dirty. Needs to have a pro. Do it for me I have been in Uber cars, most of the were spotless, some we’re not.💰💰. 😢
Why won't uber do something similar or direction. When I have a set location I end up in the other direction 15-20 miles away which almost made me late for work
I agree. I don't understand why Uber and Lyft haven't set it up to where you're picking up a passenger who's going in the same direction as you or better yet to your exact location. Say if you got in your car and wanted to hit up your local Starbucks and then decided to turn on either app, and you see on Google maps that there's a passenger or passengers closest to you going near that Starbucks or exactly there.
Thanks for the information, but this has been available for some time, now. We got ridesharing here in Syracuse in late June '17 and it was accessible then. As always, thanks for your content. Stay safe!
I think they should let the veteran drivers see where the passenger is going prior to accepting a ride . After all longevity should count for something.
I just started with Lyft and keep hearing that nobody could see the destination prior to pick up but my friend who drives for Lyft sent me a screenshot and his tells him the duration of the ride before he even accepts it!! WTF LYFT??
Why are you waiting 5 minutes to contact the rider? I text at arrival not just hit arrive. Then after about 2 minutes if I get no response I will call if no response after 5 to 6 min I will cancel.
I think it's more "ethical" to not accept a ride rather than be a douchebag and accept then pull up and cancel. You accepted the ride so you should complete it . I have an acceptance rate that's pretty low but at least I didn't screw passengers over, they don't even know that I didn't accept
If we were given complete info before accepting you would be right. Given that the apps subsidize $5 dollar trips that take 40 minutes too complete, by not showing drop off pre acceptance, due too something like getting stuck in stadium traffic .... Cancelling is the only way to avoid losing money to drive someone 10 blocks. The rider isn't thinking about driver making $5 for 40 min and missing $30 of rides, and neither are the ride share apps, so up too the driver too make sure they don't get abused by the system
True, I prefer the pinch because then I can see the address/pin on the map, but for those that just want to see the address, you are correct, that is much quicker
MSPdriver I did not know about the pitch map option, thank you. Locally where I am familiar, the list icon gives what I need. When I am out of area several times a month, the map viewing option is a good new tool. Please keep these tips coming!
Yeah but it doesn't say which city which is the most importantfactor, it only gives you the street name and number unless you zoom out then you can see where exactly you are going on the map.
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Stupid AF... I want to know this information BEFORE accepting a ride to pick up a passenger that’s 21 minutes away just to take them on a $3 trip.
dont take long shared rides
Exactly
Agreed this is stupid, Why go there just to Cancel ......
I never accept a ride past 10 minutes period even though the acceptance rate quotations hurts but accepting these rides and becoming upside down hurts even more. They have features but all of their features really work against you and they interfere with your acceptance while on the app. A Lyft platform needs to be updated in the GPS does not work properly if you don't want to use the tools welcome to Texas
yea the video title is misleading. the mystro app for iOS will show you the lyft destination before accepting the ride.
I want to know how far the destination is prior to going to pick up this video did not help
CLE boy this guy is a tool and this video also did nothin for me.
You can’t see the destination prior accepting. However, this guy’s video is complete bullshit. If you cancel after arrival time expire is policy but you wasted time getting there so $5 cancelling is silly as you’ll have to wait again. 95% of the time your fare will be in the car before you can cancel.
Yeah, the scumbag used a false title for clickbait.
Ana Castellano it’s not clickbait you idiot. The feature isn’t available until you arrive, but it IS available and he explained it. Who’s the tool? Answer: you two.
Ana Castellano also, be pissed at Lyft not this dude. Why do you think they do it? It’s because a lot fewer people would get rides, or they’d wait forever for someone to be willing to drive 5 minutes down the road. They have tho do it like this. You take the good and bad. Jesus Christ
5 minutes is a more than reasonable waiting period. If you’re getting push notifications and know I’m 10 minutes out, it’s your responsibility if you miss your ride.
Vermont Rideshare Guy couldn’t agree more
Ok
I take umbrage at his wording. You're not seeing the passenger's destination "ahead of time". You're already there. You've already driven there and tapped to arrive. Wasted time & money. Now, what would be much more appreciated from a business standpoint, is to see the destination before we accept the ride. That is the proper time. It's not fair to the passenger for someone to come all the way there and arrive and then suddenly cancel and take off. That's so not cool. Especially if they're going to the airport or work, and need to be there in a certain time and now have to wait for another driver. If you're not going to take someone, you should be rejecting or calling them immediately and letting them know so they can cancel immediately & not accrue a cancelation fee and you haven't got a ding on your Acceptance Rate or already made the drive. I think Lyft needs to get off its butt and actually allow the drivers to see the destination before we accept the ride. That is the time to pass it to someone else and to not have the passenger wait as long.
Kimberly Wolfe your the most to the point person on this or any other page! You answered my question I’ve had from the time I started Lyft. Thank you.
c.e.b. underpar , Thanks for your kind words. Yeah, I've always thought if they really wanted to treat us like independent contractors, then they have to give the full details of the job before we accept the assignment. Otherwise, it seems like we're just being treated like an employee who has to just do what's given to them, with only a small amount of choice.
@@kimberlywolfe3482 Well, the "independent contractor" thing it's just for legal reasons, so they can save on costs associated with having employees, but actually you are employees. Lyft doesn't want you to refuse any rides, cause then passengers are treated poorly.
exactly. the guy on the video is pro establishment. He is not keeping it real with his choice of words. AS drivers we should be able to see the distance to the passenger location prior to accepting it. Otherwise its like playing a slot machine.
@@edwardrossman9448 Yes, it's part of the business. Sometimes you get long rides sometimes short ones. You can't cherry pick just the one kind. People have to go all over the place. It's the nature of driving.
biggest issue is pick up miles and times....travel 15 miles to go 1 mile....wish I can see where a long pickup ride is going...
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I no longer care. ..I go NO MORE THAN 3 miles or 6 minutes. I (like a fool) fell for that crap more than once. I will not call the rider. ..they ordered the ride, they know we're coming. "scheduled pick ups" hahahaha they tell you the ride is across town, between 12:30-1:30am, and the grand total. ..$2-3.....shit man, let me jump right on that one!
@@Tinalynn... Sometimes they won't pay you the $5 unless you fulfilled each check box, most notably making a call to rider, even if it is a token call in which you tell them you are out.
@@Tinalynn... Agreed, if the ride is more that 6 mins away I don't accept. To many times I've been caught out for a trip that miles away to receive a few $$ on a ride and not a penny tip.
@@Andrea-lq8so same here, fuck those long trips for $4. Only time I go far is if it clearly says Long Ride as the $2.75 bs ride would only end up costing ME money and it's clearly not worth it for a short BS trip to the 7 Eleven
This makes no sense. Go to pick them up and then cancel, we wanna see before we arrive duh
Supastar Mar took the words right out of my mouth. After driving there there’s not much of an advantage to cancel. Might as well go with it in most situations.
Why can't I find out before I even start to travel to that passenger. I would like to know ahead of time where that passenger is going. I am tired of traveling 15-20 minutes for just a two minute drive. A waste of time and money for me...
It’d be nicer to see that destination before u accept it bc it may be an area u don’t wanna go into...safety reasons etc
As a spine injury person who takes short rides, I denounce drivers who cancel rides based on destination! Lyft, please, save your customers from these drivers! I'm paying you the money you asked for!
Absolutely. As a female driver there are definitely areas I don't want to go. Lyft does not take our safety seriously. Until they do, I will keep this as just a hobby, driving strictly daylight hours and in my small town where there pretty much AREN'T any unsafe zones. Anyway, it's all moot, b/c all these services will replace us with driverless cars in a few years anyway.
@@ColleenKitchen But what to say about it being racist not to go in those areas? Isn't it more important to make sure they are serviced? Feminism teaches is that women are equal to men, so going into those areas is needful. To refuse is to repudiate feminist teachings.
You need to read up the definition of feminism, honey. My safety trumps any -ism. No it is not more important than my safety to make sure that "certain areas" are serviced. Screw that. Especially not for what they pay us.
@Angry Trucker Tipping is a practice brought in from class-based societies like in Europe in the thirties by restauranteurs who wanted to save money. It was thought to be anti-American because it casts one person as the high-born patron, and that other as a servant whose meagre earnings are not enough. "Here my good man, bring a goose home to your wife for Christmas", you'd say, as you press a coin into the hand of the servant. It was beneath the dignity of freeborn men in a democracy then, and it still is. The employer should pay enough that the job is worth it to the employee. In a democracy, we need employees, not servers/servants. Fortunately, in the case of Uber and Lyft, the tip is included in the price already. Consider 12% of what you earn to be your tip, or, consider yourself to be a freeborn employee earning your wage.
The problem is, you should be able to see where the destination the driver needs to go to prior to excepting the job. That in itself will cut down on cancellations make it easier for the driver seat determine whether or not it’s in a safe area and it is not somewhere you want to drive in that city. So Lyft if you’re listening try doing that offering that to your drivers got on on your cancellation
Pj Agree
Yes this is my issue I want to see destination before accepting. I only want local rides once got a ride that wanted to go 300 miles away. I had to cancel had kids to pickup in 2 hours. Had I seen before I would not have accepted in the first place I got penalized because they can't just add a simple feature.
This comment did not age well.
@@ironaston9858 How do you figure this is still something they need to add so the comment actually did age well because it's still relevant.
Exactly!!! I accepted a trip today going 30 miles away from where I wanted to go on my last trip.
BS - this drivers doesn’t get how he’s being used. There is literally NO contractor job on the planet, where the destination is not revealed to the contractor ahead of time. These ride share companies are abusing the drivers in a way no company should. EVER.
Ur not wrong but if enough customers can't get a ride because they either getting pickup up or dropped off in a less then optimal area then the company loses business and the ppl shouldn't be discriminated against for this. If a driver knows all the info then some ppl will suffer fir no good reason
Seriously though I was trying to earn an $18 streak and it put me 45 minutes away from where I lived and then tried to get me to go 45 minutes further how is this fair at all?!
@@TheReaIJeff it seems the "algorithm " is against you sometimes always at the wrong time. If its sunday and i need a bunch of rides for a bonus all my rides are long pick up amd or far away.
@@CPoppaB1tch exactly man.. I gave up on the $18... I unfortunately lost my job due to the office being shut down and am driving a type r that uses 93... They wasted SO much of my gas today... It's like $40 a day in gas on bad days lol.
@@TheReaIJeff damn since tou own a vehicle like that. Im sure you have a decent savings. Buy a small car for like 10k a peius or Carolla sometime good on gas. Go do your 40 hours should be able to pull on 1000 plus no issues. Until you either get another job or decide to go off grid lol.
This was useless, just a long explanation of nothing
dude, if you click the button that says you are here, after which it shows you the destination... you no longer have the ability to cancel the ride. It WILL charge the rider a fare.
Just accept every ride if you can,sometimes short ride but good tips ,i had one ride for 5 minuts lyft paid me 5 dollars,tipswas 7 dollars. So it was good money
I don't accept rides past 10 minutes maybe 12 because anything outside of that radius is driving too much for not being paid. I'm not driving 20 minutes out to pick anyone up unless I'm more than 20 minutes from my home
So you can not see the destination BEFORE you leave to pick up the passenger??
Cancelling the ride after arrival at the pickup location would increase your cancelation rate which would lead to deactivation even if Lyft never admits it to be the reason for deactivation. Also driving to the pickup location and finding out the destination of the passenger only after arrival is a waste of time, gas, mileage, energy and so on. Drivers should never be forced to gamble with their resources while Lyft has very little to lose. Being an independent contractor implies more freedom in accepting and denying requests which could not be without full information about the ride in advance. I assume that you know that already.
They don't punish drivers for cancelation rates anymore, but I do see what you're saying.
I would have 100% acceptance rate if i saw destination BEFORE accepting because i would have the info i need to make an informed decision to accept it in the first place so i would not even have to cancel.
I am new to this business. How do you decline a passenger? Does the app give that option?
You need to change the title of the video
I just started working for Lyft after working for Uber. The biggest problem for me here is that after I push “Pick Up Ride” it’s not showing me the rider’s destination’s address? Hello? Where are we going? Yes, I can zoom out on the map to see the destination, but why not give me the exact address of the destination so I would know exactly the name of the street where I’m going?
Lyft is not on the side of the driver - it's on the side of the customer. That will become apparent. If the driver was their prime consideration there wouldn't be such a great turn over.
@@yankee2666 don't we kind of go in knowing this?
My reference to acceptance rate is based on how I personally justify cancelling certain rides
Cancellation rate is something to be aware of in terms of facing deactivation
Just what I wanted, a 1 MINUTE unskippable ad.
You can also tap that little man icon with the lines next to it. It shows the actual address.
Thank you I dread having to be forced to accept a ride more than 45 minutes to 1 hour away if I'm finishing up for the night
Thank you, why give him a thumbs down? I almost got killed in some neighborhood. YOU'RE THE MAN!!! I drove clear across Florida, and wasted 1 hr of driving. This Lyft is looking like bag of shit now
I b thought this was about seeing destination before accepting. If your arriving at a passengers departure or pickup point then you ve already accepted. I hate accepting my last ride just before time to log off only to be surprised by a one hour and thirty minute ride.
I know man. Happened to me tonight had to take people to the whole other end of my city without knowing first
Only works if they put in their destination ?
I can do 8 short rides in an hour where I drive easily. At $3.00 each that adds up pretty quick! My acceptance rate was 98% last week. I cancelled one guy who was just being verbally abusive. Most weeks it's 100%.
When you reach gold status they show you in advance.
And have a 90% acceptance rate.
Is it just me because, the video title is misleading...
It clearly says BEDORE accepting the ride.... and yet.. its actually AFTER ACCEPTING
I know this long time ago bro say something new it’s simple things u said
I do Lyft as a side gig and have given up trying to appease Lyft by being 90% + acceptance. Lyft has sent me requests that were over 45 mins away and I have the screenshots to prove it. With no details about that ride provided at the time it comes in, I have to assume it's a short ride that will net me a couple dollars which means I'd spend my own money on time, gas, wear & tear. Quick math: 45 mins = approx 2 gallons of fuel @ $4.50/gal means I spent $9 of my own money just to get there plus whatever fuel to take the passenger to their destination. If it's a 10 mile ride then I'd make maybe $7. If the app has the audacity to send me that request and expect me to even consider it, then add a huge bonus to the ride payout. Otherwise it's like me giving people free rides on my dime.
Simply ask from riders by texting them.
Hate scheduled rides b/c they are never ready
Do you mean Cancellation rate? Acceptance rating is meaningless. There’s a big difference between the two.
No, you will be punished for a low acceptance rate with Lyft. I've done the testing.
How can I see the ADRESS?
I am unable to use lyft maps with my trucks GPS cuts off my Lyft nav when I use the truck GPS
If you're cancelling rides, it's bad for the community. If you can't drive, go offline and take a break or go home and chill. People need to get places and they're paying good money. Well, not good money, but so-so money. It's not bad money. The point is, refusals reflect badly on your reputation, as calculated by the dispatching computer.
Someone else gets the ride. If passengers want a dedicated ride, they can call a taxi.
@@THE-VVATCHER No, no, that's just it. Ride-sharing it about replacing taxis with a better experience for the customer, that's why it's so successful. If it was the same crap service as taxis, like refusing rides, then there would be no jobs for Uber and Lyft drivers. Nobody should get confused: customers are where the money comes from. It doesn't come from Uber. It doesn't come from Lift drivers. It comes from customers. That's why the customer is King, because we all want money. Don't take a job where you don't want to protect the goose laying the golden eggs. That goose is everything.
As an independent contractor I have the right to choose to pick up a ride in a certain location or to headed to a certain location for my safety
@@Arcsecant if they don't do better with the service it might soon be like a taxi service
@@Arcsecant is it considered a better experience driving 20 minutes for a 5-minute trip? Or is it considered a better experience to be paid for your travel there as well as your travel to the location. Sounds like a fair experience equal to time for time is equal to money
How is this independent if you're penalized for using the cancellation
Living in a suburb of mpls. I'm scared when I realize the destination is in mpls. Right now there are alot of car jackings. Thanks for this info. I will now be cancelling those rides.
What is the benefit of keeping at least 90% acceptance rate?
It's good for kissing up, if that's your thing.
I don't cancel rides because they're short I cancel rides when the pickup is over 5 or 6 miles if Lyft would guarantee me a fee that would cover my cost I would be glad to pick him up but they don't and 80% of the time I lose money and I will cancel
That is my rule. 10 minutes or less
As an independent contractor I have that right and I feel it's best for my safety as well
I just began driving for Lyft. On my 3rd day I picked up a fare which wanted to go over an hour & a half away. I took them but I didn't want to pick up another ride on the way home because I felt like it would take me farther from home. Is there away to know about these long rides before we accept them? There is no way to get in touch w/a person at Lyft to ask questions not already pre-programed into their page. I don't like not being able to talk to someone.
No. There is no way to know before accepting the ride. You got a good ride it sounds like 1.5 hours. On your next far ride drop off your passenger then set the destination mode to your home. You will only get rides that take you towards your house. None going farther away.
How do you recheck a ride you have booked with Lyft
Click bait!
I had to drive a couple of tweakers 4.5 hours one way in a snow storm last night because of the inability to see first and have someone lock in, and, since I'm new, the desire to maintain a high acceptance rating. There is no other way to see where someone is going???
clickbate because you must accept the ride and drive to the passenger's location before seeing the destination. Most of the time the passenger is already getting in my car by the time I can see where they are going. Passengers are usually shocked when I tell them that we can't see their destination until they get in the car. My recent best was driving 11 miles down a 1 lane road in traffic (took me a full hour to make the drive. Called the passenger on the way to let her know it was going to take me so long and she said that's ok). I pick her up just to see that shes going 1 literal mile back in the direction I just came from. Spent almost two hours on this ride and made the $2.26 minimum. This is so very rude on the customers part, as they could have walked to their destination in a fraction of the time it took me to drive through traffic, pick her up, and then continue sitting i traffic for another half hour to go 1 mile. I understand the passenger is paying for the ride but in these situations the driver actually loses money. Not right.
I heard with Lyft (not Uber) you had to make an effort to call them if they weren't out yet to receive a cancel fee. Is this not true?
Pete Differ it is true that you are required to call, you can however trick the app into thinking you made the call without actually calling by just tapping the call button and then pressing cancel
Thanks, good info. Another tip, to avoid a delicate situation of getting them again right away when they request a new ride is to remember their rating. I always make a point to do that. That way if another request comes up in the same area with the same rider rating, you know it's probably them. If you get them again after they were charged a noshow fee you know you're going to get 1 star.
Pete Differ I actually accept their request if they make it again, then when they get in I just say “hey, sorry about that last one, I tried calling but got no answer” most times pax understand and don’t get mad
Yeah, I don't want the hassle of hearing them bitch.
I just screen shotted your reply! ! FYI...IM STEALING THAT ONE hahahaha! That's 5,000,000 times better than just driving off 💕💕💕💕💕💕 FREAKING LOVE IT
If you get deactivated for any reason take them to small claims court.
I only do plus rides and i refuse all classic....when I cancel anyone I get threatened of deactivation beacause my acceptance rate is under 10 percsnt
what are plus rides
Why do you keep saying “it’s nice of Lyft and “use this function ethically” is it ethical for them to not give me any information about a ride before I accept it which forces me to take someone further than I am willing to or is forcing me to pretty much pay to work after all the expenses are factored into the trip? I have been doing food delivery for a year now and the only way it is profitable is by declining any order that doesn’t net me the highest possible profit.. how am I supposed to make money when I’m wasting gas and time being forced to complete rides that aren’t profitable…
Don't you have to contact the passenger in order to get the cancellation fee?
Trey Caldwell hey not only that but... somethings the f'in app will automatically call the rider. Without any driver input or action. You'll be sitting there watching the counter and moments later, (especially if your phone is linked to in car Bluetooth) your phone is ringing as if you actually tried calling the rider yourself. For this very reason I downloaded a call confirm app. This way the LYFT platform can't physically or remotely access my phone feature and dial up the rider. My phone would stop the action until I confirm that I want to make this call. Furthermore, you WILL NOT GET....I SAY AGAIN... YOU WILL NOT GET A NO SHOW FEE IF YOU DON'T MAKE AN ATTEMPT TO CONTACT THE RIDER. The no show option will be visible after you've waited 5 minutes, but if you tap no show, you don't get a no show fee.
Here's my take on that. A rider requested for a ride. At the time you've accepted the ride, the rider now gets your eta. In addition to your eta, once you've arrived, they then receive an additional 5 minutes. Ugh... WTF? WHY? If the rider isn't capable enough to get out on time or within the 5 minutes... They their asses shouldn't be using the damn app. HELLO! So let me see...im supposed to contact a person that requested for a ride, they knew what my eta was, I've waited 5 minutes after arrival... And I must still call them? And say what? Hey douchebag... I'm still waiting in case you haven't noticed.
What's next? Opening the door for them getting them into their booster seat, buckle them in and give them their binky & snack too? I shouldn't have to do shit. Hell...i wasn't the one that requested the ride, im here to make money and why waste my time because this rider isn't capable of getting out to the car within this window. I could be on another trip with a rider who can.
More importantly... They should be waiting for us, not the other way around, we should wait for them. There's really no excuse for this. If you can't get to the driver in time then you deserve to be charged. That's you're penalty for what you've done.
This hasn't been nipped in the bud yet because it's happening more and more. I bet after a few fees that won't be refunded or credit, they'll learn. Doing all this makes LYFT look desperate.... like they're begging riders to ride. When I cancel rides my rating drops. That's my penalty for doing what I did. But yet they rider can do this as often as they please?
One thing is for sure, 100%... that's "LYFT HAS WAY TOO MUCH CONTROL." We're watched over like hawks, told what to do what not to do when to do how to do, but wait... aren't we subcontractors? Are we able to be our own boss? NO... We're treated like garbage, treated like employees, but only when it's convenient. Partners don't tell each other what to do, instead they come together to find a solution. It's always one sided with them.
Al Gaines “give them their binky & snack.” Hahaha...entitled assholes!
I know Doordash doesn't do this. You can unassigned 20% of your orders. And it never auto accepts or queues order. What does Uber do? I'm thinking of ditching Lyft for Uber if Uber handles this in a way that is better for the drivers.
Not sure what "ethics" has to do with it. It's more about reputation. My 4.9 rating and 95% acceptance rate is good enough to keep Lyft and most of my passengers happy.
On the other hand, the the things I would have to do to keep a 5.0 rating and 100% acceptance would definitely be _unethical_ (i.e. breaking traffic laws at the whim of the passenger or facilitating different forms of illicit activity.)
C4400: How can I lose money when I average $30/hr?
And what do I get for my 4.95 rating? The ability to kick jackasses like you out of my car and still be keep a 4.9.
5000 rides with a 4.95 rating--I get massive respect from passengers all the time--and huge tips, including quite a bit of cash.
C4400: No, the art of polemics is 5000 years old, and trust me: I am infinitely better at it than you. To me, you're not a fish in a barrel, you're a sardine in a can--AKA lunch.
C4400: Understandable. You hate losing. Most people do.
C4400...come back...please...I wasn't done gnawing on your carcass...
This happens to me two or three times per week. I bite too early and scare off half my meal.
It's not helpful. I thought this video was about to see the destination before accepting the ride. If we've arrived at the destination and cancelling that would be very bad for passenger and driver until unless drive is too long like 45 mins plus. Passenger waiting time wasted and driver fuel wasted
Two and a half minutes worth of in Cameron tonight even give me the information. I want thanks loads.
Accepting every ride on the platform is not beneficial because the ride itself is not given upon who's available nearest to that Rider. It's more so first come first serve to the rental car vehicles. I think
Hopefully along the way nobody pulls a gun on you and declare'This is a hold up and a car napping'!!
Hey, thanks! I didn't know about this feature.
if you confirm arrival the rider is already notifide so how can you cancel or collect cancellation fee it just does not make sense
Are you telling us how to rob ppl in front of their porch with that cancelation?
i wish i can see how long the wait time would be before committing to the ride
Yes, Your video did answer the question of seeing destination prior.
I just started so I could not see any action offline. I thought that odd,so I put myself ONLINE/LIVE/Apparenyly, available.
Saw 1 passenger -showed up in town, -showed street,
-but not where they wanted to go(I didnt even see passenger full name unless I had to press it again I don't know?).
Say...Perhaps, I didn't have time to drive 1hr away. I thought this was about driving when we feel like it on our own increments of time.
Anyhow, the light beeped after 15 sec saying something about how I didn't accept the ride.( I just didnt press buttons.)
Now I feel Lyft is not user friendly AT ALL. BASICALLY, YOU showed us that drivers need to go
"BLINDLY" to the close pickup 'After initially accepting the passenger- ONLY TO FIND OUT AT LAST MINUTE THAT THEY WANT TO TRAVEL TO EAST JAPEEPEE. Ridiculous, I think to be fair a driver (& passenger) should be able to see all available riders and their destinations. Then
- press ONLINE, -CHOOSE the one you can commit to.
Not sure about this whole Lyft setup. I'll probably try UBER.
Thanks, loved your video your well versed!
I know I just started yesterday and I got ripped off by Lyft drove 12 miles away and only got payed 9 dollars I think it's the biggest scam ever I rather do doordash they pay me 10 dollars for 3 miles and more ...even though it will be nice to know how far we are going before we pick the ride with Lyft .no wonder this company it's getting richer ripping peeps off .jerks
I have a rental not my car could I contact the rider and let them know? After accepting a ride
Thank you so much!!
You guys are gonna fuck it up for us seeing destinations by doing this canceling shit.
Wow. Thanks so much. Absolutely will keep it ethical. I'm trying to learn how to set destination while in Airport Queue. Any info is greatly appreciated.
NAMAATE~
You can't.
YOU JUST SAID BEFORE ACCEPTING THE RIDE, NOW YOU SAYING AFTER ACCEPTING THE RIDE. THIS VIDEO IS A HUSTLE. SO SICK OF PEOPLE JUST REAPING EACH OTHER OFF.
Clickbait. Definitely misleading. Should say AFTER ACCEPTING. Come on man
acceptance rate has nothing to do with customers judging our reputation.....cancelation rate and star ratings are the biggest ...does having a low acceptance rate cause me to receive less rides
Omg! Thank you!!!!
I’ve never cancelled a ride
Go for higher studies and get good job folks. These are not worth of our time.
How many people we can cancel sometimes the passenger destination so far and get low pay.
I have drive 1 hr 20 min get pay $40.47 I feel bad. Go and back about 3 hr.
That is very rude if you to have someone preparing for and awaiting your arrival, you come and then cancel because you don't want to go where they NEED to be! And then collect there money for not providing them a service! I hope Lyft gets a hold of you and deactivate you for Stealing because essentially that's what you're doing. What a douchebag of a human being you are. How about just call them after you've accepted it and ask where they're headed...Duh! Then you can canel early so you don't waste your time and theirs by driving there. If u cancel within the first few minutes No one gets taken advantage of
How about Lyft just show us what we're contracting to do in the first place and we can just ignore it from the get go if it doesn't suit us. I agree that accepting the ride and thereby eliminating the other drivers and driving to the passenger only to find that the passenger wants to go 50 miles the wrong way to a terrible hood without much chance for us to pay for the trip back is not ideal. I think the driver is only due a cancellation fee if the passenger fails to show. So telling us from the GET GO would be best for all, then some other driver who perhaps lives that direction could pick it up. And if no one grabbed it within five minutes the price could go up. I like the idea of calling them as soon as you accept as a work around. Maybe if everyone did this Lyft would start doing it for us.
How I know destination before accepted
How low will one cancellation affect your acceptance rating? I cancelled ONE ride and although I don't remember what my rating dropped to; I know it fell below 90%.
PROPAGANDA VIDEO. Lyft needs to show the passengers destination BEFORE we accept
Yeah you can see it after you get there That's stupid I want to see you where they're going before I take the ride before I accept a ride. Because after you cancel that goes against you because you already accepted the ride to go there now you're going to cancel That's ridiculous It wasted your time and wasted the passengers time. Uber is better they show you everything up front.
I need a job real bad. Part time. I thought driving for Uber or Lyft would be perfect for me. Don’t know who to choose. With all the info I have on both... they are almost the same. Each have 1 other differences, that leans towards one.. Holding me back is, possibly going in now so nice areas. If I choose to work for 1. My Jeep is so dirty. Needs to have a pro. Do it for me I have been in Uber cars, most of the were spotless, some we’re not.💰💰. 😢
So you cancel, when you’re there to pick them up? THAT sounds unethical…
Whats "unethical" Is not getting to see where your destination is before accepting the ride.
bullshit. so I am supposed to see the destination while they are standing there. I should be able to see the destination before I pick them up.
That's the dumbest thing ever heard. Do you know how to find out location before you get to passenger
Don't want to join
they wont let me go on plus only
Click Bait! wtf?
Driver's shouldn't be able to see the destination until the passengers are picked up
This information is useless.
Why won't uber do something similar or direction. When I have a set location I end up in the other direction 15-20 miles away which almost made me late for work
I agree. I don't understand why Uber and Lyft haven't set it up to where you're picking up a passenger who's going in the same direction as you or better yet to your exact location. Say if you got in your car and wanted to hit up your local Starbucks and then decided to turn on either app, and you see on Google maps that there's a passenger or passengers closest to you going near that Starbucks or exactly there.
As a FORMER slave driver. Any one who is still doing ride share, in my option, you deserve being used a fool.
Thanks for the information, but this has been available for some time, now. We got ridesharing here in Syracuse in late June '17 and it was accessible then. As always, thanks for your content. Stay safe!
Tom Talarico yeah, this was more or less for drivers that were unaware of the feature, you stay safe as well!
I think they should let the veteran drivers see where the passenger is going prior to accepting a ride . After all longevity should count for something.
I just started with Lyft and keep hearing that nobody could see the destination prior to pick up but my friend who drives for Lyft sent me a screenshot and his tells him the duration of the ride before he even accepts it!! WTF LYFT??
This isn’t a new feature.
Jorge Gonzalez didn't say it was.
Bro. . . This isn't finding out BEFORE accepting a ride. Way to bait for views. Thumbs down. 👎
Why are you waiting 5 minutes to contact the rider? I text at arrival not just hit arrive. Then after about 2 minutes if I get no response I will call if no response after 5 to 6 min I will cancel.
ill cancel if i frickin feel like it joe
Company man, thanks for not answering the question I had. Also, there’s no need to keep your acceptance rate above 90% when they pay us so little.
I think it's more "ethical" to not accept a ride rather than be a douchebag and accept then pull up and cancel. You accepted the ride so you should complete it . I have an acceptance rate that's pretty low but at least I didn't screw passengers over, they don't even know that I didn't accept
If we were given complete info before accepting you would be right. Given that the apps subsidize $5 dollar trips that take 40 minutes too complete, by not showing drop off pre acceptance, due too something like getting stuck in stadium traffic .... Cancelling is the only way to avoid losing money to drive someone 10 blocks. The rider isn't thinking about driver making $5 for 40 min and missing $30 of rides, and neither are the ride share apps, so up too the driver too make sure they don't get abused by the system
Misleading title.
Why "pinch to arrive" when all you have to do is tap the icon in the lower left corner (with the 3 lines) you get the same result, but much faster
Tapping this list icon, you can also see if it a multi-stop ride.
True, I prefer the pinch because then I can see the address/pin on the map, but for those that just want to see the address, you are correct, that is much quicker
MSPdriver I did not know about the pitch map option, thank you. Locally where I am familiar, the list icon gives what I need. When I am out of area several times a month, the map viewing option is a good new tool. Please keep these tips coming!
No problem Robert, thanks for watching!
Yeah but it doesn't say which city which is the most importantfactor, it only gives you the street name and number unless you zoom out then you can see where exactly you are going on the map.
This is not what the title claims. Title should be How To See Your Lyft Passenger's Destination AFTER Accepting the Ride.
That's not what the title says...you already accepted the ride