Rideshare services - Uber, Lyft, Hailo, etc.

What is/was Hallo?

saw a presentation once about the way different cultures do scoring once, like Italians will tend to give 3/5 to everything as that's the "expectations met" score, and Chinese always will rank everything 5/5 because they just consider it box-ticking with no purpose.

xp https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hailo

Italians have very high standards, we’re talking about people who boo subpar opera performances.

why would you rate your driver less than five stars (if you're not italian)? seems pretty dickish. unless they're actually abusive in which case report them.

Not having two license plates on their car. Having extra random people in the car. Lecturing the riders about Jesus or against drugs. Mentioning their MLM. Asking for tips literally or with a sign. Having the passenger seat pulled up all the way/things on the seat so someone can't sit there. Not waiting at the pickup point. Running red lights (any objectively shitty driving).

also it used to be that if you rated a driver one star, you'd never get them again. not that it really matters, that never happened anyway. once that I can remember- and only because he had a manual transmission subaru WRX. not your typical uber car.

I don't get that many ubers but never had any of that, except for stuff on the passenger seat and well it's their car. in general I'd think its just people trying to make a living, why make it harder for them? I wouldn't rate my bus driver or waiter or supermarket till person.

I don't get many ubers -but the last two times the driver took off with acceleration whilst I was still in the process of sitting down in the seat and about to put my seatbelt on. I'd be keen to discourage that.

lol i once had a teenage Uber driver start to pull away while I was still climbing into the car!

the rating system is sort of broken by the understanding that the company is exploiting these drivers so badly. the idea that it could actually be useful feedback that helps customers avoid substandard drivers, and helps those drivers identify improvements they could make to their benefits, is completely swamped by my desire to not add to the misery of someone barely scraping by in an industry/racket created by the company which then has the temerity to ask for my rating.

otm

Chinese always will rank everything 5/5 because they just consider it box-ticking with no purpose.

The Chinese otm.

Dr. Casino, I'd forgotten how you are all over this thread.

If I wasn’t kidnapped, they get five stars.

@ Alfred - ha! This thread's first heyday overlapped with me reading a lot of history/theory of infrastructure and US municipal politics stuff, so I was ready to come in hot with the takes...

grab motorbikes are a miracle, I use them at least twice a day

five stars or no rating at all. no rating means you really fucking sucked but I'm still not trying to fuck with your means of surviving, I don't know what you're going through. it's my understanding that anything less than five stars pushes you lower in the queue of being able to pick up rides, as long as you are giving me a ride you get five stars.

I tip but don’t rate