What's your Uber Passenger rating?

[odysseus]

I don't really see the logic in Uber drivers discriminating too much about passenger ratings. If an Uber driver forgoes a 4.5* passenger, they're the ones indirectly paying through lost opportunity cost, expenses (in driving around driving around aimlessly) and their diminishing hourly earnings. Underutilisation is a massive cost to taxi/Uber drivers, so it's in their inventive to maximise it. Logic would suggest they should accept that passenger and the balance of probabilities which suggests the passenger will be probably be okay - I highly doubt a Uber driver could discern between a 4.5* and a 4.8* passenger anyway...

As Bolt said, you can't be rated 0, and on balance of probabilities equally, many default to 5.

Thus, reports from those who discriminate are that those below 4.5 are often due to apparent cause with things like lack of respect, entitled and/or unsafe demands and so on. Per the Uber announcement, they re-educate then kick off riders at the bottom end, so I don't think there are any riders below around a 4 (maybe high 3s).

I think many drivers prefer to avoid the risk of a passenger making a mess in their car, or the hassle of unsafe demands then being given a low rating (which has implications as a driver).

A number of those things could have more long term costs/effect than a short term skipping of an individual passenger.

 

[dajop]

I know the Uber system is a long way off, but the Netflix series, Black Mirror has an interesting episode (Series 3, Ep 1: "Nosedive") exploring some of the implications of rating each other on the basis of superficial interactions. A bleak vision of where things could end up if not careful. The episode includes a great airport check-in meltdown scene.

The start of the synopsis from Wikipedia:

Using eye implants and mobile devices, people rate their online and in-person interactions on a five-star scale. This system cultivates insincere relationships, as a person's rating significantly affects their socioeconomic status. Lacie is a young woman currently rated at 4.2 and keen to achieve self-improvement, hoping to reach a 4.5 rating ...... .

 

[harvyk]

I know the Uber system is a long way off, but the Netflix series, Black Mirror has an interesting episode (Series 3, Ep 1: "Nosedive") exploring some of the implications of rating each other on the basis of superficial interactions. A bleak vision of where things could end up if not careful. The episode includes a great airport check-in meltdown scene.

The start of the synopsis from Wikipedia:

I was about to mention "The Orville", however a quick google suggests it was a take on that Black Mirror episode.
The scary thing is China is very quickly heading down that same path.

 

[dajop]

The scary thing is China is very quickly heading down that same path.

Haven't quite concluded which is worse, government rating its' citizens, or people rating each other. No doubt both bad. Although social media itself is moving things that way anyway, all too often twitter/facebook/instagram turns into "mob rule" , where followers take the role of judge, jury and executioner.

 

[Bundy Bear]

4.75 for me;
I am sure most of the lower scores was because of the short journey.

 

[harvyk]

4.75 for me;
I am sure most of the lower scores was because of the short journey.

For me, I lost points for not tipping in the US, despite ubers insistence that drivers were not supposed to collect tips

 

[VPS]

4.94 not sure what I did wrong and I never tip

 

[Bolthead]

For me, I lost points for not tipping in the US, despite ubers insistence that drivers were not supposed to collect tips

There are plenty of US drivers who boost on forums that if there is no tip that's one star gone. The problem with that mentality is that in the US tipping is now available via the app. The driver doesn't know that you have tipped until after the ride. As a driver here I always tip in he US as their rates are so much lower than ours. (assuming it is a pleasant drive)

 

[Moody]

My rating is 4.81 and it is utterly meaningless unless it impacts my ability to get a ride.
I never look at a driver's rating before they pick me up, and invariably give them a 5 because it is less hassle
Taxis I still use when it suits me but I have no sympathy for them. They were happy to operate a cartel when they could..

 

[oz_mark]

Mine is 4.69 - although it got as low as 4.3 once. NFI why - but given how I was being scored I started returning in kind to the drivers in kind Even so much as blink once too often and you get a 4

Stupid meaningless system.

 

[harvyk]

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Stupid meaningless system.

The intention was right. The thing they failed to take into account was just how coughty and vendictive some people can be (on both sides).

Rather than a star system, there should be a "like / dislike" system, but every dislike should require the pax / driver to give a full explaination as to why, which is then read by an actual independent human who can make a determination as to if it was a real infraction, or the driver simply being a dick towards an attractive woman who's only crime was she rejected his advances and thus a low star rating was his revenge.

 

[KitKat]

The intention was right. The thing they failed to take into account was just how coughty and vendictive some people can be (on both sides).

Rather than a star system, there should be a "like / dislike" system, but every dislike should require the pax / driver to give a full explaination as to why, which is then read by an actual independent human who can make a determination as to if it was a real infraction, or the driver simply being a dick towards an attractive woman who's only crime was she rejected his advances and thus a low star rating was his revenge.

Yep, have a few female friends who commented that they have a lowish rating compared to me! They surmised that they did not engage the small talk the drivers wanted to engage in and were then given low ratings.....

 

[Sprucegoose]

does the rating accumulate or is say a rolling 12 month average ?

 

[Quickstatus]

the rating

For drivers: Average of most recent 500 ratings

I assume same or similar for riders??

 

[Sprucegoose]

For drivers: Average of most recent 500 ratings

I assume same or similar for riders??

That’s why my rating increases with my tolerance of others

 

[Quickstatus]

increases with my tolerance of others

No!. Increases if the other party THINKS you tolerate others. Big difference