Uber Driver Area Preference | Drive Where YOU WANT To Drive!
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Uber announced and tested Area Preference for Uber drivers in a test market of Dallas/Ft Worth area in early 2020 and is NOW bringing it to more markets. This is an Uber feature that can help you choose where you want to drive and when. Get all the details here with RSG contributor Jay!
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It’s really nice using it at surge periods in downtown Dallas with no traffic. It keeps you in the surge or 5-10 mins from it after drop off Head back and get another one and repeat. You can do about 5-7 trips with light traffic.
Good point! I didn't think of that. I haven't used mine yet, but I can see this being a good way to stay around surges.
Hey, that's great, Dallas area drivers. In LA, I feel like we'd have to start compromising our bonus hours. For example: the other day there was a bonus of $9 on every ride between 4 and 7 p.m. in the LA area, which typically spans much of LA with the exception of the South Bay, Valleys, way way into East LA, etc. It also does not include going to the airport (rather I should say you have to drive out of the airport toward either Marina del Rey or elsewhere to get back in the zone and that wastes time) so you'll suddenly find those start popping up one right after the other because we're all trying to keep the bonuses back to back. I feel like with bonus hours, they would not allow you to just stay in a bonus zone for two hours if that should pop up. I always feel like we just have to keep playing these games with the app to keep it even somewhat profitable.
The Uber app says this: Currently, Area Preferences is only available to drivers with Uber Pro Platinum or Diamond statuses. Learn more about how you can secure Platinum or Diamond status.
It works great when you get close to the time you wanna end near your house or whatever
Enjoying this feature. Good to see your face again Jay, I’m a full timer here in Vegas and you’ve helped me a lot thru the years. About to move to Phoenix so hopefully the market is good out there as well.
I was already doing this with the destination filter...it's nothing new to me. Secondly, it's also worthless if the bonus is paltry and is below$5. As a driver in the metro Los Angeles are and gas prices hovering@ $6 per gallon. $1 per mile and $8 per hour time compensation is not worth my time and effort. Uber needs to increase all 3 factors...time, distance and bonuses!
I was already using a destination filter with a 1.5 hour arrival preference. I was accepting rides going into my destination
I found this helpful esp when they have a $4 bonus on every trip within the Altadena, South and Pasadena areas. Short distance trips within 4 miles and a bonus of $4 doubles your $1 per mile pay. Again area preference is worthless if your bonuses are closer to a $1. It's insulting and I don't understand why they take the time and trouble to add it on the map!!!
Area preference as kinda of like Doordash to stay in one area instead of going everywhere in all area of having more options and get paid more.
I have it in Phoenix. I've not used it yet. It's been on my phone for maybe two weeks now. I would rather go surge hunting, but I might use it this week since I see you guys talking about it. I'll do a video on my channel to show ya how it goes.
Apparently, they don’t have that in Atlanta, but I can use that in Lyft and they don’t have a time limit on it
Welcome back Jay, i get happy just to see your face thumbnail on a new video coz I like to watch you "in a friendly way". hope I will keep seeing you making videos forever don't go anywhere unless you decided to make your own channel that would be awesome and I will be your first sub:)
I think it's a good opportunity for those who need to keep busy for extra surges by choosing "undesirable " neighborhoods
Plandemic, get it right.
Uber constantly coming out with shit pretending to care,UBER DOESN’T CARE!
Uber constantly wants us drivers to do trips that we normally would not do.
When we accept the trip just tell us all the information on the trip, let us drivers decide, but they don’t do that, their game is constantly keeping drivers in the dark.
I’m guessing to many people will use this in my Chicago market. And passengers will eventually start complaining they can’t get rides to Ohare.
I can't wait...the South and West side gonna be waiting forever 🤷🏿♀️
@@nyishahinkle1706 for real!!! 😂
We have it in Orlando and depending on your strategy it may work. I tried today on Walt Disney World property and it was a waste of time and money.
I'm in Florida, why is my arpreference on? on?
Must the two hours maximum be consecutive (used all at once)? Or can it be split up in like 2 one-hour chunks?
Looks great. I have major issues in Boston where after hitting a few surge rides or when nearing a quest bonus...all of a sudden I regularly get offered lots of long distance low profit rides. This would help instead of me driving my cancellation and acceptance rates through the roof.
I don't have this for an option...... why not
I am a full time Uber driver in the Dallas area. I use the area filter all the time. It is great for reducing the total miles we drive, especially in DFW,which covers an enormous area. The areas are too large and need to be reduced. We also need to have the feature all day, not just for 2 hours. I turn off the filter as soon as I receive a trip. I also put a stop request in place. This allows me to use the filter for a much longer period. I was tired of driving 80,000 + miles per year, and having to dead head massive amounts of miles to get out of slow areas. The filter has made things more efficient. I only wish the coverage area was smaller, and we we could use the filter at all times. The 2 hour limit makes it dangerous to turn the filter on and off while driving. Though it works very well in reducing overall mileage driven a day. I still drive over 200 to 250 miles on most days. Though before the filter, I was frequently driving 300 to 450 miles a day. DFW area is huge. Previously, Uber was sending me on trips to slow areas, then I would receive trips taking me further out. It was not uncommon to be taken 70+ miles away from home, with no trips available. The area filter helps reduce it somewhat. I still have to deadhead out of slow areas, just not as often, and not as far away.
Hi, Bryan. I'm in the Dallas area but my Uber app doesn't have that option. I only have: connect, deliveries, Uber pet and Uberx/pool . Which version do you have? Thanks 👍🏻
@@andres.c If you scroll down below the different types of rides, you should see a heading called trip filters. There will be 2 choices. The first is area filter. The 2nd is rider rating preference. When you open the area filters, there will be 6 areas to choose from. Each area covers a large area, though it is good for keeping you from being taken too far away from your comfort zone. We can use them now for 2 hours a day. What I do is turn on the filter to the areas I prefer to work. Then once I get a trip request, I turn it off to preserve my time. I wish Uber would allows us to use the area filters all the time. It is a great tool to help keep our mileage down. For as you know DFW is huge, and the algos love to take us further, and further away from home. I love this feature. I just wished they would make the driving areas of each area smaller. I think DFW is the test market for this feature. It is a great tool.
@@bryandavis8789 , thanks for answering. In area filters I only have 4 to select: Connect, deliveries, Uber pet and Uberx/pool. Which Uber app version do you have?
@@andres.c I just have the regular Uber driver App. On my app, the area filter is in a section beneath the driving filters.
Only 2 hours? So it’s pointless
How do I find this and do I have to be at Gold level?
This is easily thee quickest way to have underserved communities / black areas without drivers or big surges. People already notably avoid the “hood” so if there’s a option to avoid these areas altogether with a preference, there will be less drivers in these areas and larger surges. As these areas can have a bad ratio of bed interactions to good interactions, among the stereotypes that already make many fear the area. This just looks like a recipe to rid the service away from particular communities.
While it’s a 2 hour daily thing, that may help out to stop people in worse off areas from getting drivers. But if the company sees success in this, it would stick around and become full time thing or something given to top level drivers. But especially coming from a LA market, I only see this harming the underserved areas of the city.
I wish it was standard like how door dash is. Really it's the same thing, door dash has the area you're in broken into areas and that's just how they set theirs up. Uber has Mr going all over the place. One end of town to the other. There's no rhyme or reason so it and I'm not able to really pin point the best places to drive beecause I'll start by my house and end up on the complete opposite side of town by the time I'm done! Hope Uber decides to do this for everyone and not just platinum or diamond 🤷
Need to be all day, on bit trips should only be for long trips. Now its for local trips which is bs. 40 minutes before scheduled trips or rider requested trips completely defeat the purpose of it. How you know where you are in 40 minutes??
I am in Chicago and received Uber's email regarding this feature but "in the app" Uber doesn't provide this filter.
Exactly like wtf lol
I hope they’ll give drivers the option to pick shorter distance trips only. I don’t want to go longer distance because I have to return empty and gas ⛽️ is so expensive. On top of that Uber benefits more from long distance trips.
@@lianmartinisbuck5580 For you Uber is your dream because you have no skill or don’t see any future for yourself so you worship your masters. Don’t assume everyone is hopeless like yourself!
Not in Palm Springs or Orange County Ca
Jay now that the stock market been crashing any seconds thoughts on day trading. Maybe going back to rideshare for a while?
That's great news. If they allow drivers to do this their entire shift I will come back and drive folks around. That and they need to drop the acceptance rate to 50% or something more reasonable. But until they do that they won't get me and my 4.99 customer approval rating back.
This is happening in Phoenix Arizona I have not tried this at this point
I was just saying this. I've had it on my phone for a couple of weeks, but I've still been surge hunting. LOL! I surge hunt and bang out like $60/hr some nights.
@@MicDropBBQ good luck man. I just paid $5 a gallon for regular gas. There do seem to be less drivers on the road probably because of this horrible gas price increase
@@davidwirsh4992 I usually drive the Jeep, but lately I've been driving the BMW more. I would rather use the BMW for upgraded rides (and more for Lyft Lux), but I've been doing regular rides with it. Sucks, but I fill up with $60 in that and I can drive for two nights instead of using the Jeep at $80 for ONE NIGHT! I would get around 220miles of driving the Jeep - making a little over $1 per mile all night and getting maybe $250. Profit of just $170 for 8hrs.
Using the BMW, I use maybe $30 in fuel and get the same $250 for the night. But I get passengers that REALLY shouldn't be using the BMW for service. I've had to decline people trying to "move" in the middle of the night with bags of clothes and tubs of bathroom items. I'm not putting that on my leather seats. Nope. Not ruining $1,000 leather seats just to make $9. Hell no.
Uber won't let me do Comfort because it's a 330i and not a 5-series BMW. Whatever. Lyft doesn't mind, so it's a lot of business rides and dinner rides. Airport rides, as well.
No one is ruining their cars for pennies on the dollar right now. Plus with fuel being so high, people are doing other things like Instacart and Doordash to make more money per mile. Uber is paying $1/mile most of the time. Lyft Lux is like $3-5 per mile for me, so I do my best to do those - but you only get maybe 5 per night. But you still bang out like $200 in 2hrs with Lux.
UberX? Shit, I'm making like $25-30/hr and that's WITH surges added. It's lame out right now. Very lame.
We need that in the Albany NY market
I don't see it
LA area is also available
I saw this in austin but haven't tried it out yet
I saw the feature today in Atlanta, never tried it!
Hurry up and come to los angeles
My biggest issue with Uber is that when it does take me far away from my home I want to be able to do like lyft does, where I can head my destination to home if I want to and only get rides that go in that direction and Uber does not have this option.
Uber has a destination
Destination filter
@@zjbell700 they do have the destination feature but it’s flawed. The feature can send you 10 km back to come 1 km forward. Then it times out after so long.
@@zjbell700 okay how do I get to the destination filter on Uber?
Good so far just wished there wasn’t a limit.
Need this in Virginia Beach
Karen travels by day, so I Uber at night. Also I like the sound of this feature. Bring it to SWFL already
I CANT WAIT TILL THIS HAPPENS IN AZ!..I'd much rather do a bunch of short trips make my bonuses and Xtra tips instead of long ass trips..
This is fantastic. No more unprofitable long trips going into the suburbs. Too bad they won't allow drivers to use it more than 2 hours.
Area preference is crap for me. Not available in the inland empire high desert. Thumbs down.👎
I guess you have to be gold level to choose this? I should be gold soon!😊
UBER just updated It. Now you have to be a Platimum or Diamond Pro driver to have it. So once again Uber takes it away from all the drivers that are not at that level. Typical move from them … BAIT and SWITCH
I stopped uber because they don’t have this feature
It's discussting that a blue..basic and not pro can not set their area preferences..uber help, phone call is absolutely a no help entity..a total waste of time. BRING THESE JOBS BACK TO AMERICA !! the people in another country are absolutely useless. The automated phone system is an absolute joke....totally messed up. A nightmare.
5 negative stars for uber.
Only 2 hrssssssssssssss???
It just became available here in NorCal area, but 2hrs…. Wtf Uber, either way we won’t take the ride if we don’t like it, so wtf?!
I thought It was here in NYC
Update
It was Australia years ago & we loved it so Uber took it away
I think this is great 😊
This feature is old and it’s been put in markets before and Ubers ripped it out like they do with anything drivers like.
Uber is like will give you a Mars bar but when your loving the mars bar. Everyone else is loving the mars bars. Uber then goes f$&k drivers will just give them shit and take it off them. Here in Australia we had it for 4 weeks then with a days notice was ripped off.
Crossing bridge’s sucks
Thts shit aint work i put o.c only and take me to l.a where i have to deal with l.a heavy traffic lol uber should do up to 8 hours specially if you jst wanna drive on a safe good area.. specially with all those shit going on uber drivers 🤷😁
Uber should help drivers for gas and tolls like a loan weekly for drivers just in case you don’t have sufficient funds on the go bank account , this Uber platform have millions of dollars 💵 but they don’t help drivers for expenses it’s ridiculous, this why I quit doing Uber I quit in 2017 because of many reasons number 1 the riders number 2 the pay per mile are very very low number 3 renting a TLC vehicle in NYC are to expensive number 4 the gas $4.67 a galón ⛽️ is too expensive number the pay are too low . Uber should give the drivers access about the destination where the rider is going before picking up Uber needs to listen more on drivers and not the riders , I live in NYC 🗽 and riders are rude and violent Uber needs to a background check on riders before using the platform, Uber needs pay more to drivers and not lowering their weekly pay .
The hack that I use with this especially during a surge is to turn on area preferences, accept a ride, go into area preferences and turn it off, and, then select the option to stop accepting rides. Only burns a couple of minutes per ride and you can thus use it for a long time if it helps you in your market. Really great feature midnight to 2AM in San Francisco market. No trips across the bay. During the daytime commute it is great to avoid taking airport trips. In fact there should be an option to just "avoid airport" and that would take care of half of the rides I don't want. Not profitable here to do those trips.You can also combine it on a Friday or Saturday night (10PM-12AM, and 12AM-2AM). Thus lots of short local rides.
Delete your comment before uber fixed this hack 😂😅
I just spent 30 minutes with "customer support" to ask this very question. They were acting like they had noooo idea what area preferences was and then asked if they could help with anything else. 🙄
Lyft better step it up!! 😂
They're really learning the hard way, if at all (nods)
Now Lyft has it for free and Uber requires Platinum to have it.
This feature alone was enough for me to commitnt9 Lydt full time. Will reconsider Uber when they step up to same level. For free. 3 filters. 3 hrs at a time. Same as Lyft
Just stoped this feature from February 1st 2023. Anyone same?
it's a good idea to stay out of the hood. As I was attacked by some hoodlum while driving for Uber.
I noticed this last week in my area, in MD, so I started picking a county close to my house to drive in during the evenings when I want to be close to home. Unfortunately, it only lasts for 2 hours.
What i do is turn it off after receiving a trip request. Then put a stop request on the trip. Then reset the area filter before turning the app back on, after completing the trip you are on. This helps you maintain the filter for most of your day,unless it is very slow and hard to receive trip requests.
I have it here in the bay area ca. I used it on saturday during UC Berkeley Graduation and it worked out really well. I don't like the two hour limitation though. It should work all day. I like to stay in a specific area in the east bay area that works well for me.
Typical limited thinking… there is a way to make this feature last all day long
@@10kamonth92 since you know it all then elaborate.
@@10kamonth92 that’s what I thought if you not gonna share then gtfoh with your negative comments.
You can turn it off after you get a trip. Finish the trip and turn it back on. Only burns a couple of minutes per trip.
I'm pretty sure that the app is different now and this functionality is no longer available. You can set your destination and turn on a destination filter but there's no way to choose areas that you want to stay in unless I'm missing something.
Yeah mine is gone! I did it one time and haven’t seen it on the app since
This is good also if you need to be near home but want to maximize rides in your area before heading home
I live in the Washington DC area and we do not have this feature as of yet. Then again, maybe I do not know where to look for it. Right now, all I have is final destination feature which is good, but I would love this feature even more. Especially since I am a part time driver, 7+ years now. 2 hours per day is crazy. Why not just make it 24 hours a day. Drivers know where they want to be. Uber still makes money and the drivers do a lot better managing gas. Thanks for the tips. Cheers!
Well. As uber driver. When you modify time of arrival in your destination, you were able to stay in one area for one set up a whole 10 hours. Uber took it away. And this 2 hours? No use for cities like Chicago where traffic is horrible. In two hours you will do 1 trip. So Uber didn’t solve anything. They should let us modify time as it was. You want to do reviews for Drivers? Try to drive in different cities so you can make honest reviews
So far it hasn’t come to LA yet
I don't have this feature in my uber app what could be wrong ?
Looking forward to this coming to the Portland, OR market. Yes, 2hrs is a drawback. I wouldn't mind them giving us 2 of these per day, like destination filters.
You will run into situations when you have to travel 8 miles for a ride that is only 1 mile long.
We have pre designation in Los Angeles for 2 hours
I haven't looked. I should check it out next time I look in the app.
how come I don't have it here in my market in Orlando.
Pretty ridiculous. I just look at the pickup, destination, and fare to determine if it's a good deal. If it's a bad deal, I decline. $30/hr minimum with $10 ride minimum. Easy.
I saw another Driver have this preference in his phone, we are in the Phoenix market. He went to show me how to use it and I didnt have it on my phone, but he did? Why is that?
Also, I called Uber Support, they had no idea what I was talking about.
I wish they did this for a whole day on all accounts. We live near a military installation and you need credentials to get on, obviously. It’s not difficult to get an ID, but for those who don’t have access immediately, it would be beneficial to turn off that base location. DoorDash has finally split our areas for that exact reason. Too many people were ordering on post and the drivers could not deliver there.
unreal. i never get these features when others in my market do.
It's in San Antonio too! Haven't tried it yet.
We have it here in Orlando
It’s in Las Vegas too. 4 areas
Its in San Diego too.
I live and work in the downtown Los Angeles area I selected area preference just in the downtown area on this weekend of the anime convention. There’s tons of people everywhere people moving everywhere and I’ve been here waiting for an hour and 15 minutes and still have yet to pick up one single ride area preference is the worst thing they’ve created I’ve never had to wait so long for a ride in my five years of working as an Uber driver.
Don't see it on my app. I live in LA
We really need this feature to come to Chicago "ASAP"!!!
On GOD!!!!
Once got 4 trips in a row across the golden gate Bridge on a Sunday! 2 of them ended up in San Rafael and 1 of them Richmond. Every time I dove back the first trip back to me back over the damn bridge! None were even event related 🌉🌉