<story><title>When Their Shifts End, Uber Drivers Set Up Camp in Parking Lots Across the U.S.</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-23/when-their-shifts-end-uber-drivers-set-up-camp-in-parking-lots-across-the-u-s</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>otoburb</author><text>I heard anecdotally that drivers with ratings below 4.6 have their Uber driver accounts shutdown.&lt;p&gt;In this instance, how would the rating work for drivers in an UberPool? Does each person&amp;#x27;s vote count for only 1&amp;#x2F;n, or is each one a full vote? If it&amp;#x27;s full votes for all riders in a single UberPool ride, all it probably takes are a couple of mediocre UberPool experiences and the driver is selected out of the driving pool.</text></item><item><author>chrissnell</author><text>I live in small-town Kansas but commute to San Francisco occasionally for my job, which is based there.  I just got back from a trip last week and noticed something startling about the Uber drivers that ferried me around: never before have I seen drivers this bad.  Twice in one week, my drivers nearly ran over a pedestrian.  On one of those incidents, a guy was walking across a crosswalk in North Beach in broad daylight. Everybody in this Uber Pool was screaming &amp;quot;stop!&amp;quot; as the driver ran right up on this poor guy but the driver seemed oblivious, like the guy was invisible.  The only explanation, I think, is that our driver was extremely fatigued.&lt;p&gt;I predict that rideshare-pedestrian deaths are going to skyrocket in 2017 as more drivers take desperate measures to try to get by.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>civilian</author><text>I thought it was anything below 4, but who knows.&lt;p&gt;When I have unsafe drivers I aggressively rate them 1 or 2s depending on what it was. I know that it&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;mean&amp;quot; to the driver, but I&amp;#x27;m being kind to future passengers, pedestrians, and everyone who shares the road.</text></comment>
<story><title>When Their Shifts End, Uber Drivers Set Up Camp in Parking Lots Across the U.S.</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-23/when-their-shifts-end-uber-drivers-set-up-camp-in-parking-lots-across-the-u-s</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>otoburb</author><text>I heard anecdotally that drivers with ratings below 4.6 have their Uber driver accounts shutdown.&lt;p&gt;In this instance, how would the rating work for drivers in an UberPool? Does each person&amp;#x27;s vote count for only 1&amp;#x2F;n, or is each one a full vote? If it&amp;#x27;s full votes for all riders in a single UberPool ride, all it probably takes are a couple of mediocre UberPool experiences and the driver is selected out of the driving pool.</text></item><item><author>chrissnell</author><text>I live in small-town Kansas but commute to San Francisco occasionally for my job, which is based there.  I just got back from a trip last week and noticed something startling about the Uber drivers that ferried me around: never before have I seen drivers this bad.  Twice in one week, my drivers nearly ran over a pedestrian.  On one of those incidents, a guy was walking across a crosswalk in North Beach in broad daylight. Everybody in this Uber Pool was screaming &amp;quot;stop!&amp;quot; as the driver ran right up on this poor guy but the driver seemed oblivious, like the guy was invisible.  The only explanation, I think, is that our driver was extremely fatigued.&lt;p&gt;I predict that rideshare-pedestrian deaths are going to skyrocket in 2017 as more drivers take desperate measures to try to get by.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryen</author><text>I wouldn&amp;#x27;t believe any assumptions around how Uber ratings affect drivers.  In many cities Uber&amp;#x27;s demand outweighs their pool of available drivers.  Its not in their best interest to remove drivers from their platform other than the most egregious cases.</text></comment>