Comment by Jelthi
4 days ago
I pay more:
- To support cool technology
- To ride in a high end car of known quality
- To listen to my music and at any volume
- To not feel weird about the little things like talking or rolling down my windows or setting an AC Temperature
- To know exactly when and where my driver will pick me up down to the exact curb.
- To not have to make small talk with a person. Even when requesting quiet preferred you’ll get an uber driver who wants to share their life story or trauma dump on you.
- To not die. I’ve been in some terrifying Ubers with either bad drivers or just exhausted ones.
And carsickness. In stop-sign city traffic, I get nauseous with the breaking and speeding of aggressive driving. I mean stop signs are problematic for other reasons too, but I don’t want to get to a dinner with friends feeling sick.
That said, if I’m going mostly highway to the airport I want a driver who’s knowledgeable and opportunistic, picking the best lanes and not missing lights.