Uber making changes including the ability to tip, will you?

[YossieW]

Uber making changes including the ability to tip, will you?

Other changes coming within the next 180 days:

https://pages.et.uber.com/180-days/

Drivers will receive a cancellation fee for rides cancelled outside a 2 minute timeframe (down from 5 minutes)
No more unpaid wait time (after two minutes of waiting passengers have to pay)
All Driver Destination Trips Count Toward Quest
Quest Earnings are Available for Instant Pay
Expanded Driver Destinations
Driver Injury Protection Insurance
Teen Fare – drivers will get paid $2 extra for teen rides

http://www.doctorofcredit.com/uber-rolling-app-tipping-180-days-change/

[Emkay]

They should not show the driver if he got tipped until after he rates the passenger

[Live N Learn]

IIRC tipping was  available on thd past too.

[talmid chuchem]

IIRC tipping was  available on thd past too.

Think was only available by the setting as a default to give every driver a certain tip

[Aerial Dag]

Teen Fare – drivers will get paid $2 extra for teen rides

Haven ridden in Via shared rides with teenagers heading out on a Saturday night I cannot believe they are only charging $2. One time a girl forced the driver to pull over so she can go to the bathroom 2 minutes after being picked up!

[yoshyosh]

They should not show the driver if he got tipped until after he rates the passenger

Uber also is copying a feature of Lyft that provides riders with up to 72 hours to tip a driver, though Uber is extending that period to a full 30 days. https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/20/uber-is-implementing-tipping-but-how-well-it-works-will-be-critical/

[TimT]

What's "Expanded driver destinations" mean ?

[username]

Think was only available by the setting as a default to give every driver a certain tip

only for uber taxi.

[LoLo]

Do ubereats delivery drivers also rate the customers?

[mgarfin]

Now they got rid of CEO!

[as2]

Now they got rid of CEO!

My guess is that the 2 were connected.

[TimT]

Now they got rid of CEO!

Not surprising

[Aerial Dag]

In case you haven't seen it, here is the (ex) CEO on camera in an Uber

[AsherO]

My guess is that the 2 were connected.

Doubtful. This has probably been in the making for a while and they're announcing it today to try and mask the CEO news.

[as2]

Doubtful. This has probably been in the making for a while and they're announcing it today to try and mask the CEO news.

That is definitely a factor, but he may have been apposed to this, and now that he's gone, they can put it into action.

[aygart]

That is definitely a factor, but he may have been apposed to this, and now that he's gone, they can put it into action.

They would not have been able to get something so quick without his prior involvement.

[as2]

They would not have been able to get something so quick without his prior involvement.

It may have been proposed and he killed it.

[Aerial Dag]

They would not have been able to get something so quick without his prior involvement.

Uber touched on this potential for bias in a 2015 blog post, where it argued an in-app tipping option would motivate drivers to spend more time in wealthier neighborhoods rather than "serve the whole city" — one of the company's primary objectives.
That said, Uber has already built the feature that the New York City's Drivers Guild recently petitioned for, according to the New York Times; the city's Taxi and Limousine Commission granted the petition Monday. But CEO and founder Travis Kalanick thinks deploying it would only add "friction" to the in-app user experience. Kalanick also doesn't want riders to feel guilty for not tipping.

http://fortune.com/2017/04/18/uber-tipping-nyc/
Kalanick was always against tipping.