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The New Uber Rider App — Where to? See upfront fares & estimated arrival times
Uber is a ridesharing app for fast, reliable rides in minutes – day or night. There’s no need to park or wait for a taxi or bus. With Uber, you just tap to request a ride, and it’s easy to pay with credit card or cash (in selected cities only)
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@chrissaad Great to know. One of my major pain points is the access points for saved addresses. I have saved my apartment address, but my apartment has 6 different access points. I would like to have the flexibility to drag and drop the pin during the home/work address setup so that I can instruct the drivers to the right access point. This avoids multiple phone calls before every pick up and instructing the driver to come to the right exit.
@chrissaad Are pickup locations always just decided? How does that work? Am I gonna have to walk three blocks if I'm on floor 50 of a building?
@vij2288 @chrissaad talk about an edge case! For now, maybe save some text snippets that you can send quickly/automatically once a driver accepts your ride request?
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Super excited about the new direction and design of the Uber rider app. Lots of hard work from a lot of folks went into this. Creates a new foundation for an already incredibly useful platform.
@rrhoover @laurengoode Double the goodness. Reading about the new Uber app on the super fast The Verge.
Amazeballs! Usually I'm just scrolling through my Twitter feed during Uber rides! wait a sec, why doesn't Uber buy Twitter? 👻
Seems fine but it doesn't really address the actual problems with the service. For example, the routing totally sucks. I get being San Francisco focused, but San Francisco is an easy place to navigate because roads are usually at right angles and the vast majority of intersections involve just two streets. In Boston it often routes drivers the long way around (which can take forever through lights and weird one way streets) when just going to a different corner at the same intersection would shave ten minutes or so off coming. What about making it easier to message drivers *without* giving our phone number away? Often you want to tell him to take a particular road or avoid a certain block, and the current process is really cumbersome. What about certifying drivers? Now they're mostly out-of-towners who blindly follow the GPS, which often sucks. In SF you want someone who knows to take Franklin north instead of Van Ness and in Boston you need need need somebody who knows that you avoid exit 18 off the Pike into Cambridge during the morning and the GPS is always wrong. I'm glad whatever your "product selector" is has been made "beautiful" but the base functionality of driving around a city still needs a lot of work. I use uber a lot (taxis here are a joke) but it seems like hard-to-solve problems are totally ignored in favor of UI tweaks.
Excited to download and try this out. I'm into the calendar and contacts utilization, but will be even more interesting to see how third-party partners leverage this app.
Looks like a decent update!!
Includes shortcuts to places among other things too... nice job
What else is new and awesome?
Coverage in Business Insider here
Love it!
Smart move to integrate 3rd-party cards (excited about the 4SQ integration!)
Just took a ride to office... and it was like super fast booking, You guys are awesome... love the new UX and Design :) Congrats!
Super useful upgrades, in a beautiful package. Is it just me, or does anyone else want the little cars on the map to be actual mini versions of the make and model of car driving around? :) Huge congrats to the whole team; and screw you for setting the bar so impossibly high for the rest of us!!
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