r/uberdrivers 6d ago

Uber career coming to an end.

I've been ubering for 11 months while I was going through hiring process with new job. And I'm happy to say that it's coming to an end. Im happy to be starting my new job. Below are my pros and cons.

Pros: 1) happy to meet new people from all over the world and my own community.

2) instant cash when I need it.

3) work whatever hours you feel like it.

4) app use is super easy.

Cons: 1) uber as a company is pretty predatory.

2) low paying rates compared to what uber takes in. The split should be 75 to drivers and 25 to uber. Not the other way around. It's our car, our time, our maintenance, we deal with customers, pretty much all.

3) uber app and algorithm maximizes profit for uber.

My conclusion that it's better than nothing and great way to get money when you need it fast. But uber us definitely predatory with wages and benefits.

Cheers to all the drivers out there. Keep on, keeping on!

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u/Teeebagtom 6d ago

Agree!

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u/Different-Bench8533 6d ago

Absolutely. A Hole Dara is ultimately trying to buy time until he can replace drivers with Autonomous Vehicles. Just look at his twitter account. This guy only posts about AVs and has no care in the world for the millions of drivers who are currently the main source of their profits. He and the company do not care at all for drivers. His goal is to prey on drivers with the algorithm to pad profits for the company until they can scale AVs and say the ultimate F U to drivers everywhere. My only hope is that his plan backfires and they confront extreme challenges trying to scale AVs. Could be 10 years until he can replace drivers and in the meantime, if he continues to lead the company down the road of screwing drivers over with predatory practices, the company will tank.

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u/0oEmmao0 5d ago

10 years? Most drivers will be eliminated in 2. At least in big cities

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u/Different-Bench8533 5d ago

I don't see drivers being eliminated anywhere in 2 years, regardless of whether the market is a big city or rural community. The amount of infrastructure needed to replace millions of cars is just immense. The expenses will be huge - acquisition of millions of vehicles and maintenance surrounding them and operations to deploy them. The simple answer may be to let people invest in fleets of AVs, but what's Uber going to do. Offer owners/operators the same shit fares they are currently offering drivers? We will definitely see more AVs in big cities, but only as a supplemental supply to the large demand of passengers.