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Dara live stream Tuesday April 10 at 10am PT....How many will stream?

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What's the chance of getting tge link...???
All it said is your invited at top of page from my Uber app.....I wonder if every driver global was invited to stream? Here's the link Rako's (posted above)

https://www.uber.com/blog/dara-driver/

It's probably more like damage control for the murder and the fact they might actually need us more than they thought months ago.
 

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Improvements to ratings.
Improvements to support.
Payday advance...

Bunch of nonsense most likely.

If they drop the no show cancel to 3 minutes, that will make me happy.
I want 1 minute cancels in areas that aren't busy. If I'm picking someone up at a house, business or airport they are given an estimated timenof arrival, can see we are coming, they get alerted that we are arriving and then they aren't ready when we get there? "Oh, the driver's here. I better start saying goodbye now, giving 14 people hugs and kisses and grab my leftovers from the fridge." Or perhaps they haven't even gotten off of the plane and gotten their luggage yet?

I also want to see surge appropriate cancel fees. If it's bar close, after a major event or something else where I would earn a higher amount if I took a surge ride, I want to get paid more when they don't show. I'll give people in crowded areas 5 minutes to show up before cancelling, I get it may be difficult to locate your driver among 100 other cars. But if it's 3x surge and you don't show, pay me a $15 cancel fee, not $5. You don't usually get multiple chances at these surge rates.
 
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One guess is I bet it's some new tech device that every driver has to use that gives an edge over lyft but that would make sense lol

And the other is 360 days of change
Is that another 180? Or a full 360 back to square 1?
Sources(anonymous) FUber will pay for maintenance on our vehicles.
1. Must do 50 trips/week
2. 0 cancel rate
3. 99% acceptance
 
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First words from his mouth...

"Drivers...you are screwed"...8>O

"Since you are doing SUCH a GREAT job...

You now are REQUIRED to do...

1 poo ride per hour with 3 pickups...

AND surge has been replaced...

And in it's place nationwide...

We are implementing...

The Charlotte experiment...

Where you get ride credits...

Instead of money for taking surges...

Oh...and the Uber Gocard...

is required now...no exceptions...

we already know how much you make...

We are SURE these changes will help...

Thank you"...

Fearless Leader Dara
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Rakos
 
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First words from his mouth...

"Drivers...you are screwed"...8>O

"Since you are doing SUCH a GREAT job...

You now are REQUIRED to do...

1 poo ride per hour with 3 pickups...

AND surge has been replaced...

And in it's place nationwide...

We are implementing...

The Charlotte experiment...

Where you get ride credits...

Instead of money for taking surges...

Oh...and the Uber Gocard...

is required now...no exceptions...

we already know how much you make...

We are SURE these changes will help...

Thank you"...

Fearless Leader Dara
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Rakos
Adios.
 
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8 minutes- WTF? So does Uber pay for the tickets that some drivers would surely get for impeding traffic?
 
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During trips you'll no longer have to use those unreliable GPS apps. Instead, voice directions will be provided live, through your phone, by one of the people who also answers driver support inquiries.
LMAO. can you imagine some ant arguing with both Rohit & the pax on which route to take???

Upcoming improvements Uber driver prime. For$99 a year we will show destination and tip history
I'd pay that in a heartbeat.
 
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Maybe they will offer weekly incentives like an extra $25 if you complete 100% more trips than the prior week. They offered me an extra $25 a few weeks ago if I completed 25 trips (I usually total around 12 trips a week). They got me to drive more that first week but the following week they increased the goal for more money... and even more the following week. I didn't bite.

Maybe they will be announcing a new global, easier to understand, easier to calculate, surge process. Telling every one there will be no more surge fractions to calculate.. but a set dollar amount. They will tell everyone how successful it was in the Charlotte market and everyone loves it. And how driver's total surge bonuses increased by 25%. (or some other make up number)

It's gotta be one of those.

Maybe they're going to lower pax costs, and driver's pay, so we can get more rides and make more money.
It was so successful (for them) the last time they did that. Drivers can go from a maximum 2 rides per hour up to 2.2 rides per hour for the same pay... (as long as they ignore the additional expenses).
 
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Roll out of eliminating surge.....we will give you an extra couple dollars on the trip when we charge the Rider the a 5x surge. $20 for drivers and $100 for Uber.

But this all means more demand and more money for drivers.
I'm guessing something like this. They are going to try to make more money for themselves by taking it from us. Right now the surge is the best way for them to do that.

As I said in another thread, I'm taking a wait and see attitude. I have a lot more respect for Dara than Travis, and I think he's done a very good job since taking over this mess. How it turns out in the long run remains to be seen, but he has done some good things with incredibly difficult challenges on many fronts. And, as we saw in Tempe, the hits just keep on coming.

This is a very risky move for him to take, especially if the delivery doesn't match the hype. When you are making "global announcements" about "major improvements," you'd better present some actual MAJOR improvements.

And I can't think of any MAJOR improvement that Uber could make other than increased driver pay.

SHOW ME THE MONEY...or I don't care about anything else you say. If you just give me the typical Uber psycho-babble about "thinking deeply" and "caring deeply" about drivers, you're just insulting my intelligence.

Things like new debit cards and roadside service are not sufficiently important to put the CEO on a live stream and make a BFD out of. In fact, they're not important enough for the CEO to even mention.

He's either got a MAJOR announcement drivers will love, or Uber has shot themselves in the foot...again.
I'm trying to stay positive too but man is it hard after they gave themselves a 15 cent per mile and two cent per minute raise here in Florida while giving us drivers $0 of it. My morale after that is now at an all time low. I not only feel unappreciated but near totally disrespected by the company. They couldn't even give us a penny of that raise?
 
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I have a premonition. Express pool is free, pool is the price of of express pool, x is the price of pool. And so on and so forth. Also, drivers have to pay for access to the platform, tips are split 50/50, and you are required to rent a car from uber for 600 dollars a month. It’s coming
 
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I have a premonition. Express pool is free, pool is the price of of express pool, x is the price of pool. And so on and so forth. Also, drivers have to pay for access to the platform, tips are split 50/50, and you are required to rent a car from uber for 600 dollars a month. It's coming
And there will still be ANTS EVERYWHERE.

Sources(anonymous) has it NO more surges instead the trip will begin at the time we accept request.
We can only hope! Oh, we talking about FUber?!...never mind.
Only half ass good if we see destination. So we can cancel before we waste our time. 10 cents a minute isn't worth a damn.
 
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I have a feeling its just the official announcement of the Uber GoBank Cards new benifets including a small cash back amount and the introduction of the AAA type service their promoting. The roadside assistance actually might not be a bad deal from what I've seen.

Still though anything but some serious improvements in income will be a disappointment.

 
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Short and sweet...and very true... Lol

I havr a feeling its just the official announcement of the Uber GoBank Cards new benifets including a small cash back amount and the introduction of the AAA type service their promoting. The roadside assistance actually might not be a bad deal from what I've seen.

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Yea, seen the stuff it offers and not too bad....the roadside would be nice, along with gas perks. I just hate to screw my bank I've been with for 18 years (Been good to Me)
 
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Improvements to ratings.
Improvements to support.
Payday advance...

Bunch of nonsense most likely.

If they drop the no show cancel to 3 minutes, that will make me happy.
It should be 1 minute, and that's only so that they can wait inside if it's raining.

I will

I will be out making " LIFE CHANGING MONEY "!

Delivering Pizzas !

For CASH TIPS !
I'll be at my REAL JOB (you know, the one with benefits, raises, promotions, pension plan).

I imagine most of the drivers will be at another job or sleeping.

If enough drivers tune in, might it surge? Or will they watch it while driving? That sounds like fun, especially when the pax gets to hear what the driver thinks of what Dara says.