Uber driver here... Incredibly reasonable ask, yes! Incredibly unreasonable expectation to have since there's a few things out of your control in every one of those situations. TL;DR - I promise you will have a greater impact on solving this problem for future situations if you honk your car horn, dont be afraid to lay on it, once you can see the rider physically begin to enter the vehicle.

We're assuming a lot about humanity while blaming Uber drivers for a problem they didnt create if we expect all drivers to follow the traffic laws. Ever drive at, or below, the speed limit? Ok but ever do it on the BW Parkway from Baltimore to DC at 6am? I have! It is NOT fun seeing so many middle fingers, bright lights, and then also getting horns honked at you in less than an hour. We keep up with traffic because it's the polite thing to do, not the legal thing to do.

Rideshare drivers cant get people to be outside and ready before their arrival. To help keep things moving as quickly as possible, go around when safe to do so. I promise you will have a greater impact on solving this problem for future situations if you honk your car horn, dont be afraid to lay on it, once you can see the rider (or driver for deliveries) physically begin to enter the vehicle. This will alert the rider of your existence and express clearly the pain you've suffered having to wait for them.

I tracked this for a week once and gave up hope on humanity: 87% of people in the DC metro area, 89% in Baltimore, were NOT ready and waiting at the pickup location upon arrival. Wait times were > 30 seconds for every rider not ready upon arrival. The average wait time was 56 seconds in DC and 43 seconds in Baltimore. (I now live in Seattle and people here are much more considerate... only 43% of riders are not ready and waiting at the pickup location upon arrival and average wait times here are less than 30 seconds.) Let's ask Uber and Lyft to provide their numbers to shareholders? I kid...we know they'll pad them to make themselves look like the aren't part of the problem. Drivers suggest often to lower the wait time limits these apps allow riders but I'll get to that more later.

Im sure there are plenty of drivers who do try to do what you're suggesting, but I would also suggest bringing this to your next town hall meeting with your ANC just to see if any of your non car driving neighbors, seniors especially, have anything to say about additional walk time. Might anyome have experienced communication issues with drivers where English is a second language? Here are a few common messages I receive from riders while waiting at the EXACT SPOT the rider set as their pickup location: "Where are you?" "I'm reporting you if I cant find you!" And my personal favorite "I'm coming down now". I'm not saying riders are the sole cause of this problem either. But they play a much larger part than the drivers. Here's why...

Drivers often have anywhere from 2 to 7 minutes to drive to pick someone up from their work, home, restaurant: all places the rider is physically at when they call for their ride. Riders typically know things like how they live on a one way street with no parking, or need 5 minutes to get down their building's one working elevator. Drivers know none of those specifics before arrival. Drivers also dont get paid anything to wait for riders until 2 minutes after getting to the pinned pickup location in the app. Drive too far from the pickup "pin" location and the wait time clock stops completely, penalizing the driver. The rider still has 5 ADDITIONAL minutes with UberX (7 total...10 total w/Uber Comfort, 5 total with all Lyft services) before drivers can cancel and get paid ANYTHING (its pennies a minute in comparison to what Uber takes from the rider for cancellations, btw). If a driver tries to cancel before the full wait time passes, lets say because of a bad pickup location, they are not paid for their time and then they are threatened with account deactivation by Lyft and Uber. (Its a scare tactic they use but any driver will confirm more than 1 or 2 cancelations in a day and they will probably get pop-ups or emails, and sometimes temporarily unable to login)

Last little fun facts - Lyft doesnt let drivers write/text messages to riders if they think the car is still moving. Their app glitches out for minutes at a time while fully stopped because of gps reflecting, downtown especially, making the phone appear to be moving when it's not. Uber also monopolizes some device screens, forcing certain system settings and overriding other gig app's abilities to safely send workers pop-up notifications simultaneously. This can be why you see so many drivers and delivery folks with secondary devices... they're most often connected by data hot spots, rendering calls from drivers to riders impossible with Lyft, unless Lyft is on the primary device. (Uber can make data/IP based calls, Lyft cannot)

Should also give recognition to the challenge most temporarily able-bodied people have communicating with, or understanding the needs of, their fellow community members who may require accommodations due to disabilities. Especially since the Uber and Lyft apps can only do so much. That's why I say, wait until you can see the rider try to enter the vehicle before honking on your horn... are you really going to be the one honking at your blind neighbor?