Rideshare services - Uber, Lyft, Hailo, etc.

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