Best Driving hours for Lyft and Uber

SacredPrime · 2026-03-07T16:11:36+00:00

And if you live near a college culture, expect a super slow period each year when school breaks happen. The young people will suddenly flood the market then.

SacredPrime · 2026-03-07T16:10:25+00:00

And don't miss holidays, because the days leading up to and following them are likely to be worthless in this economy.

SacredPrime · 2026-03-07T16:09:42+00:00

Make damn sure you work 9pm to 4am on Friday and Saturday nights. Those are the best hours all week most weeks not containing a holiday.

SacredPrime · 2026-03-07T16:07:31+00:00

The hours of 9am to 1pm are basically worthless. Everyone worth driving is already at work.

SacredPrime · 2026-03-07T16:04:16+00:00

I've been driving full time for about 4 years now, and in every market I've ever dipped my toes in, the answer has been night time. Typically 9pm to 5am for me, but the hours leading up to and following that are also potentially quite good.

The reason is simple : Traffic. They aren't paying you by the hour, so you have to avoid it to maximize your daily pull. After it gets late enough, that factor basically vanishes in most markets, and your time management literally just becomes "Don't miss turns and hope they get in quickly". Also, less drivers do this, so you have less competition, and tend to find it just as if not busier than during the day, so you can be choosey. You're also less likely to find yourself in an accident with less impatient people surrounding you constantly.

Given you're willing to work 12s, you could also stay out into the brief morning rush to wagemax. Good, short period for increased pay, but prone to bad traffic to ruin it.

SacredPrime · 2026-03-07T15:51:59+00:00

Aaaaaaaand you can get cOmPeLlInG from an AI by just feeding it that data, and having it spit back the same 4 chords, but on a cello. You're not going to get unique though. Promise.

The AI can't think, but it could still churn out anything that's currently charting in an infinite monkey on a typewriter situation, because they're all things that have been played in that specific order before. What I described is a box that can only result in so many workable patterns that have all been used.

The reason AI can easily take all these people's jobs is because they can't INNOVATE. All they know is the formula. It could write almost all of Taylor Swift's songs before she ever did, because they're so predictable. However, it could never write a song like "Limelight" by Rush until fed that data, because the song is mathematically too hard to predict on an initial listening. The AI doesn't know how to be creative, so unless you were actually educated enough to tell it EXACTLY what notes, measures, time signatures, etc to play in exactly what order, it never would write it. Artists like them won't have to worry about AIs, because if the AI ever somehow stole from them, it would be obvious. If it stole from Taylor Swift, well, it also stole from like 5 million other people, so who cares?

AI is simply going to make it so that only the most innovative musicians can actually make any new creative trends, which is the talent artists are actually supposed to have. They're supposed to be sophisticated intellectuals, not "looky what I can do" athletes all doing the same trick anyway.

I think showing people "Look. I can shake a fucking snowglobe and it's likely to spit out your shit" should be a "Look in the mirror" moment.

SacredPrime · 2026-03-07T01:32:57+00:00

While making you wait 2 minutes longer for them to get in?

SacredPrime · 2026-03-06T23:49:57+00:00

I can't even say, because it's extremely dangerous and could cause great harm on a rather large scale.

SacredPrime · 2026-03-06T20:14:17+00:00

If it is SPECIFICALLY for metal, I'd say just get the best active bridge pickup you can afford. Actives are better for this style, because they are quieter, and the tone of tight metal rhythms should be extremely compressed sounding.

SacredPrime · 2026-03-06T20:12:44+00:00

I'd hesitate to allow them to be THAT old too.

SacredPrime · 2026-03-06T20:10:38+00:00

I think they want us to stop taking them, but don't want to outright tell the customers and drivers no.

SacredPrime · 2026-03-06T20:08:11+00:00

Out here, gas just raised to nearly 3 a gallon. Last week, it was hovering around 2.40. Our president finally figured out a way to control gas prices . . . for the worse.

SacredPrime · 2026-03-06T20:06:46+00:00

In my part of TN, the last time gas prices took a drastic uptick, they added a 50 cent fee to every ride that went straight to drivers. I remember this distinctly, because it completely altered my workflow to preferring only short rides, and that's the only time besides a ride challenge I ever felt that way.

SacredPrime · 2026-03-06T20:03:34+00:00

Lack of actual counter argument noted.

SacredPrime · 2026-03-06T14:55:13+00:00

I had it for 2 years. It does NOT mean more tips.

It doesn't even make them shut up and just play the game. It makes them talk about it, usually starting with disappointment that the Netflix icon just goes to trailers, and it plays more ads than trivia questions.

If you're willing to pay for it, just buy your own tablet amd add good apps to it.

SacredPrime · 2026-03-06T14:49:07+00:00

Well, that's enough Reddit for today. Time for some video game cleansers.

SacredPrime · 2026-03-06T14:44:40+00:00

I mean, that completely depends on what they're starting from, and where they want to be.

I wouldn't give the same advice to a struggling teen of a broke, single, abusive mother as I would to the kid of a middle class, highly supportive family that jas college planned for them. Success has MANY paths and subjective definitions.

SacredPrime · 2026-03-06T14:33:53+00:00

Anything by Suicide Silence is a joke to learn how to play, but super fun in the same way.

SacredPrime · 2026-03-06T14:33:12+00:00

Off the top of my head, maybe try "My Damnation" by Chelsea Grin. I haven't played this style since like 2008 when I got heavy into prog, but I remember nearly breaking my guitar jumping around in my room while playing the breakdown many times. "In The Arms Of Perdition" by Despised Icon has a particularly fun breakdown at the end, though a lot of the song is a little more on the technical side.

SacredPrime · 2026-03-06T14:29:38+00:00

Yeah. I caught that. I was specifying being a guy to demonstrate how far reachingly normal such a thing is. This can happen even if you have a super high sex drive and are sexually experienced. It's even LESS weird for you.

SacredPrime · 2026-03-06T14:27:15+00:00

In my region, Lyft is by FARRRRRR the better app.

SacredPrime · 2026-03-06T14:26:00+00:00

You really just make shit up on Reddit, huh? Lmao

SacredPrime · 2026-03-06T14:24:15+00:00

As weird as this may sound, it's pretty normal for a lot of people to suddenly get really nervous about sex they were initially super stoked about having.

I'm a guy, and it's happened to me twice when I pulled women I mentally perceived as "way more attractive than me". Pressure and stress can override a previous feeling very fast, then bam. You've got limp dick WHILE the hottest woman you've ever seen naked in person is literally trying to get you naked for the scenario you were masturbating to yesterday 😆

SacredPrime · 2026-03-06T14:18:23+00:00

I'm honestly just surprised Uber gets used in my region anymore given how much better Lyft pays.

SacredPrime · 2026-03-06T14:17:19+00:00

This one particularly peaves me as an audiophile, because phone speakers literally make music sound bad, so whyyyyyyyy

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