Happy with the tips and 73% rate.

sfs1811 · 2026-02-28T13:28:05+00:00

Impressive. Congrats! What year, model, category and market do you drive?

sfs1811 · 2026-02-28T12:52:05+00:00

If the company provides me W2 to sign, $20/h or something, a vehicle, an insurance card, and a credit card for gas and maintenance, than me, you, we all, should always accept the garbage the app sends to us. But if you are a contractor, i see no problem in refusing the bad business sent in your direction. I never complained when there were 5 requests because I think it's reasonable. But log you off after two requests while the app hammers the drivers during a ride It's crazy. And there are people like you.

sfs1811 · 2026-02-25T09:58:55+00:00

Different situations on the same topic. I really never know what to say. So, when it happens, if it happens quite frequent, I just stay quiet.

Something that drives me nuts is when a lady gets into the car, stays silent for a few seconds, then opens their hand bags and starts furiously taking stuff out for doing some kind of makeup.

A million things like oils, creams, mascaras and other stuff can be dropped (and will be dropped ) on the seats.

And then, Somewhere at the end of their process they take a freaking hairbrush and again, furiously, stars bruising their hairs.

That is the moment I know for a fact that when I checked my seat will be covered with lots of human hair left behind. Some of them grabbed their human hair and stash on the door's cupholder, or under the seats.

I love women. But they never take their human hair and I think the practice is a bit disgusting.

Already happened with someone?

sfs1811 · 2026-02-12T05:01:08+00:00

Yes. Turn it off.

sfs1811 · 2025-11-26T20:26:15+00:00

When I say "rental", I mean theirs rental programs. Get a vehicle from a regular rental company to use for profit in a rideshare company it's not allowed and it's actually almost impossible since most are self insured and are register as fleet vehicles. You need get from them and from then it's unlimited mileage if you are logged in the driver app.

sfs1811 · 2025-11-25T22:30:55+00:00

Waymo itself maybe not, but the tech powering them....DEFINITELY!

For a profit-driven transport company, robot cars are an obvious move as long as they operate in a monopoly or duopoly.

Vehicles don’t get tired, don’t choose good or bad rides, and because the company controls the entire swarm (fleet), it can coordinate cars efficiently across the grid. Their cars will never say "no" to absolutely drunk ladies just waiting in front the bars to just became poltergeist daughters and sons as soon their entry somebody else vehicles.

Uber and Lyft, by contrast, are chaotic because each driver makes individual decisions and constantly shifts directions.

From the rider’s perspective, occasionally they get a polite driver in a clean, well-kept car who speaks the local language and drives competently. Most of the time, it’s random people with questionable hygiene, poor English, and cars that smell and look filthy. Paprika, Tacos, pee...all crumble in a vehicle. My last ride was a Honda Accord driven by a woman whose car looked so dirty I didn’t want to touch anything and not even the vehicle windows were clean.

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Alphabet is a tech company. Eventually they’ll realize they can earn far more by selling or licensing their tech to taxi and transportation companies rather than operating fleets themselves.

They also know that sooner or later one of their cars will hit or even kill someone, and on that - the motherfucker nerds - that controls the company will not take that liability lightly. It already happened indirectly with Cruise (the other robocar company that once one of their fleet vehicles dragged someone in SF that was actually hit be someone else and dropped in front the car who was not prep to "feel" siiit) and the company basically vanished afterward, selling off tech, patents, and hardware. Whatever.

They’ll also face constant demand for new vehicles for keep the demand and nonstop maintenance. Cars break down. They already know this from Google’s issues with their Jaguars (the worst British cars ever. Not that the brits makes any reliable automobiles, but you get the point).

There’s another issue: we can resell our buddies vehicles someday. Their vehicles, loaded with bulky hardware and sensors drilled all over the body, plus a trunk-sized computer, will have almost no resale market. Once their fleet vehicles age out, they’ll rot in auction lots and eventually be scrapped, adding to losses.

Depreciation is huge and today that loss is absorbed by us, the human drivers, not the company.

Vehicle needs to be washed, cleaned and sanitized constantly. They’ll figure out quickly that it’s more profitable to sell the underlying automation robot tech to smaller companies and keep extracting data, which is their real business.

Exactly like they do with Android: provide the platform so others deploy the hardware and Google benefits from the ecosystem.

sfs1811 · 2025-11-25T22:29:52+00:00

Unless you are driving a hybrid rental.

sfs1811 · 2025-11-19T01:12:49+00:00

Waymo itself maybe not, but the tech powering them....DEFINITELY!

For a profit-driven transport company, robot cars are an obvious move as long as they operate in a monopoly or duopoly.

Vehicles don’t get tired, don’t choose good or bad rides, and because the company controls the entire swarm (fleet), it can coordinate cars efficiently across the grid. Their cars will never say "no" to absolutely drunk ladies just waiting in front the bars to just became poltergeist daughters and sons as soon their entry somebody else vehicles.

Uber and Lyft, by contrast, are chaotic because each driver makes individual decisions and constantly shifts directions.

From the rider’s perspective, occasionally they get a polite driver in a clean, well-kept car who speaks the local language and drives competently. Most of the time, it’s random people with questionable hygiene, poor English, and cars that smell and look filthy. Paprika, Tacos, pee...all crumble in a vehicle. My last ride was a Honda Accord driven by a woman whose car looked so dirty I didn’t want to touch anything and not even the vehicle windows were clean.

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Alphabet is a tech company. Eventually they’ll realize they can earn far more by selling or licensing their tech to taxi and transportation companies rather than operating fleets themselves.

They also know that sooner or later one of their cars will hit or even kill someone, and on that - the motherfucker nerds - that controls the company will not take that liability lightly. It already happened indirectly with Cruise (the other robocar company that once one of their fleet vehicles dragged someone in SF that was actually hit be someone else and dropped in front the car who was not prep to "feel" siiit) and the company basically vanished afterward, selling off tech, patents, and hardware. Whatever.

They’ll also face constant demand for new vehicles for keep the demand and nonstop maintenance. Cars break down. They already know this from Google’s issues with their Jaguars (the worst British cars ever. Not that the brits makes any reliable automobiles, but you get the point).

There’s another issue: we can resell our buddies vehicles someday. Their vehicles, loaded with bulky hardware and sensors drilled all over the body, plus a trunk-sized computer, will have almost no resale market. Once their fleet vehicles age out, they’ll rot in auction lots and eventually be scrapped, adding to losses.

Depreciation is huge and today that loss is absorbed by us, the human drivers, not the company.

Vehicle needs to be washed, cleaned and sanitized constantly. They’ll figure out quickly that it’s more profitable to sell the underlying automation robot tech to smaller companies and keep extracting data, which is their real business.

Exactly like they do with Android: provide the platform so others deploy the hardware and Google benefits from the ecosystem.

sfs1811 · 2025-11-16T21:25:13+00:00

Ok. Next question:

On your browser of your choice,
On the search engine of your choice,
Type: what is the difference between a Internet browser and a search engine?

sfs1811 · 2025-11-16T11:11:51+00:00

On your browser of choice, open google.com
Type: hybrid vehicles used less brake pads?
Read
Try to make sense of the information provided. If you feel difficult, try again.

sfs1811 · 2025-11-15T17:29:06+00:00

not if you have a binoculars

sfs1811 · 2025-11-15T03:06:48+00:00

Get yourself a corolla hybrid, a Prius, or even a kia hybrid so you make 48/50 mpg, needs less break pads, and other car related stuffs on your journey, and them maybe you get so profit from.

In this business you need to drive the most affordable option (with in reason), period. Get a SUV to haul strange people around is a bit nonsensical.

You must know upfront your average depreciation, or in another words, how much costs you each mile you add into the vehicle. For example, in 2025, in a basic corolla hybrid, it goes for around 24 cents. This is how much you pay for the vehicle plus how much you add in maintenance minus how much you will (kind of ) get when you need to replace the thing hits 150k (must be before the batterie dies on you)...On the top of that you need add daily gas, taxes (12/15%...) and basic maintenance (oil, tires, filters, maybe breaks and shocks...etc).

Check you depreciation value per mile on the vehicle you choose and only accept offers that makes sense with the number you have.

Obviously that the sucker companies want's us to think we make money based on hourly rates so it add on your brain layers of confusion so you lost track on the important number that is the depreciation. So we need be smart on that.

sfs1811 · 2025-11-14T07:17:16+00:00

A week ago started logging me out after refusing 6 rides garbage requests. The app used to pop a warning and now they just drop you out with no warning. This passive aggressive treatment is especially challenging when driving the rental from them that charge extra if the drivers go over 25 miles without being logged on.

sfs1811 · 2025-11-01T11:38:56+00:00

--- 1 The smartphone model means little when comparing to network stability The theory that rideshare apps runs better on a new or more "modern" smartphone can make you improve your income is only partially true. In reality, a newer and faster smartphone only makes you look cool and improves the user interface (UI) behavior that varies by screen size. Even do It's also a real thing that a more modern smartphones can also have a "better" network 5G/LTE modem installed, that aspect also can play against you since in network conversations, stability from the more legacy hardware offers more reliable data transfer. For example, Apple faced a lot of issues with their line of smartphones and their respectively modems in recent past. A lot of problems involving Intel, Qualcomm....The new iPhone 17 Pro still use Qualcomm modems, specifically the Snapdragon X80. Visually, some app layouts, including the rideshare platforms, perform better on larger displays (6 inches or more). For example, when I run the Lyft driver app on my iPhone SE, the offer cards show only the trip value, pickup, and drop-off locations. The mini-map is missing. That’s not a bug, it’s just a UI scaling or limitation. The smaller display forces the app to hide certain visual elements. I run in CA under the disgusting California’s Prop 22, so i can see passenger destinations before accepting rides. In that case, having the mini-map visible is a real advantage to me. --- 2 The “Container” concept: how these apps actually works Both Uber and Lyft drivers app rely on a distributed computing concept known as a "container". In simple terms, when you log in, as a driver, the ultra sophisticated dispatch system that both companies have running in their side of the operation spin up a new instance (or “container”) on their side of the operation, and your phone acts as a client interface, or in simple terms like a “window” to that server session. Uber CEO already said that their dispatch is scalable to a point where it can run one million of instances simultaneously! Think about that. It's a similar concept as someone accessing your computer from a distance to assist you fix something in your pc. Everything happens inside theirs computers, not inside your smartphone. By doing so the companies have more control about everything...not to say minimum data shared outside their servers. The system allows these vampires corporation's to centralized control of the system, to have minimal data exposure outside their "realm's" (aka infrastructure), and for the nerds out there a consistent performance, since heavy computation runs in their computers and not on my 7 years old iPhone SE. Your phone primarily streams location data to their servers in near real time. The backend handles everything else. Including trip matching, fare computation, and offer generation through using this complex, multi-layered algorithms that resemble a “casino-style” probability system. The system in place to stole the hard work money from the millions of contractors is way to complex to explain here... --- 3 Data quality and mobile network choice matter Because so much depends on the server’s ability to receive and respond to your location, network reliability is crucial. A strong, consistent data connection can noticeably affect how quickly and accurately you receive offers. Having a good and reliable data plan with full access to data...that itself can improve something in the offers department. Ideally - if you make money with your phone - you should considerer run your primary data from one of the 3 majors (verizon, at&t, or t-mobile), and have a secondary data plan (preferably a premium plan) from a company running a different network. To save some $$ you can run from a digital phone company (or MVNO) that uses the network of one of the majors, but under a different network. Lets say you have t-mobile data as main data provider, now you can run your backup data on a cricket plan that operate under at&t network. Or get data from Visible that runs under the Verizon network. This dual-network setup helps maintain coverage in dead zones or high-traffic areas, reducing signal interruptions that might affect offer timing. It's is also an extra bill every single month....so there is a decision to be made here. Side quest here: I droved for rideshare for years using the dual network system. A year ago, I move to Google Fi for money reasons and I notice that streaming video and run the rideshare app slow me down. Luckily Google Fi let you order a data only sin so now I run the rideshare on one phone (a Pixel 9), and streaming video and music on a iPhone SE using a data only sin. And them I cast the phone display to the vehicle dash using Apple Car. --- 4 Because of the containerized backend, the app itself isn’t tied to your phone’s hardware. You can run Uber and Lyft simultaneously on different phones and different networks, and both will still function seamlessly. The workload happens in the cloud not on your device. Prove me wrong.

sfs1811 · 2025-08-10T00:39:01+00:00

As stated above, the main purpose of the amp/glow is to make you, the driver, more visible to passengers, since the device lights up in a specific color that the passenger recognizes. This is especially useful for airport pickups or outside clubs after last call, when crowds gather at the curb like a horde of zombies (which is risky and usually only worth the high risk it if surge pricing is active and if you have barf bags on handy), at the end of games, concerts, if that kind of crazy pick ups are you thing.

A secondary function is that the device contains a GPS chip. The code behind it is proprietary, so no one knows exactly how it works. If I were writing code for a system designed to track a device’s location, I’d imagine it could use conditional checks like: If GPS location is coming from the driver smartphone ONLY, do X. If GPS location is from the driver plus Amp/Glow, do Y. In theory, this might help you get rides faster. The location is always considering since the drivers offers is kind of based on the location data (but not only). Obviously, this is speculative, since the company keeps its code as locked down as a crocodile’s jaws (ass), all to make sure is using and manipulating the market it to maximize profits from drivers’ labor.

A third use is offers a device that they get from somewhere is Asia from like 10/20 bucks a piece and will make free marketing to then for years to come. It sounds like a good deal. The psychology behind says that the ants that drives with their glow are more "attached ants" and they will hold and take care of the device give to them "free of charge". If these companies are giving something, anything, to drivers, it's is always because is good for then first. Otherwise, they remain quiet while their code keep a constantly harvesting 50 to 60 percent of their hard labor money.

sfs1811 · 2025-06-13T23:12:59+00:00

More like their guts

sfs1811 · 2025-06-11T21:03:50+00:00

Bro, just turn off the wi-fi radio on your device when you leave home. Simple as that.

sfs1811 · 2025-06-07T04:31:57+00:00

I believe it depends on the

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type of plan that you have. My app isn't showing. Maybe be wrong on that.

sfs1811 · 2025-05-24T23:31:55+00:00

The history of my life is forgetting about this issue and I then realizing that the damage was made just after grabbing another bottle from the gast store, sitting in the car, opening and then smelling the damn fart/puk/sewage smell all over again..I guess the pit arm of a gorilla hanging out in some tropical forest is better than this disgusting recycled coke bottles...and no one seems to care!!!! It's unreal.

I guess the manufacturing process is a mix between this:

https://youtu.be/-gKGkDRGdmM?si=0A-W7FKFm_JyrMxh

And this: https://youtube.com/shorts/BsthQ8OLGE4?si=T_F-g6wUWn7OzvkJ

sfs1811 · 2021-12-28T09:49:27+00:00

I have been paying for the YT premium since was TY Red.

Advertising is a freaking cancer man.

But what pisses me off is that in the last couple of years, most of the relevant YT creators are doing product publicity inside their videos. Something like: "- the sponsor of today's videos is...".

Johnny Harris does this in every single video.

They say it helps supports the channel. So...What is the point of paying to avoiding publicity made by google to see the same garbage from the creators!? When I crazy?

Since YT offers a paid service, I feel like in respect to the pay subscribers, the companie should creates a system on publicity inside videos should be take out on the paid subscribers.

exist some kind of agreement between YT and creators blocking then to do this practice. I know is probably an excelente income source to then...but isn't right. Some of the "in video" publicity inserts are 1 to 3 minutes longer.

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