Apparently it was too windy to land in San Diego last night and about 6 flights got diverted LAX. I was getting these request 30 minutes away. Uber was only paying $130 for these. 👀

But sometimes you execute one so fucking clean it’s almost an art form. 😂

I have Lyft’s deaf/hard-of-hearing setting enabled, so a text satisfies the contact requirement. No phone call necessary.

I initially parked with my passenger door facing the apartment, hoping for a quick pickup. Hop in, flip around, and we’re gone.

But you didn’t give me a quick pickup.

With two minutes left, I send: “I’m in a black Toyota.”
Then I reposition. I’m no longer set up for a pickup. I’m positioned for the roll-off. Facing the exit. No backing up, no three-point turn.

One minute left he texts: “Okay, coming out.”

And I’m thinking, no, you’re not. You’re probably just now grabbing your keys and putting your shoes on. 😂

I’m already betting against you. And now you’re playing against the house.

I’ve accepted a more profitable Uber ride, and I’ve positioned my car so you can’t catch me maneuvering out. You’re racing the clock. I’m waiting for it to expire.

Timer hits ZERO.

At that EXACT moment, your apartment door opens. Here you come!

Left hand on my phone.

Cancel. Collect fee. Roll off. 😂

And there you stand, probably thinking, “But I told him I was coming!”

Brother, telling me you’re coming doesn’t stop the clock.

The house wins. I’m already on my way to Uber. 🤌

I’m sure this question has been asked 1 million times. I’m sorry I’m still new here, although I’ve been driving Lyft for a long time.

I live in a very small college town and the rides mostly come on Friday and Saturday nights. Since I’m in the middle of town, I leave my app on from the time I get up till I go to bed. Since it’s a small area and there’s nota million Lyft drivers and no Uber driver, should I have the priority mode on?

I feel like people would be more likely to choose a non-priority ride during the day since there’s only two or three Lyft drivers. Which makes me hesitate to put on the priority mode.

Any suggestions on this topic?

I find it funny that Lyft changed the turbo colors to orange as a symbol of a “carrot on a stick”. Now watch as soon as I turn around it will magically disappear 😑

So of course lyft cannot say the dates or the time of the alleged safety incident, here I am.

Has anyone (drivers) been able to reverse this decision? If so, what steps did you take?

How long did it take?

I got flagged today for a bad smell with a 1 star rating also… Let’s put aside that the car is a month old (it’s a brand new car), I had its interior cleaned on the first (as usual), I just put yesterday a brand new “three air freshener thing” and I had no one smelling bad or leaving the car smelling bad…

I want to focus on why would you give someone a EFFIN 1 star review for that! It’s basically the worst ride of her/his life! One star is seriously messed up for something that - not only frivolous - bus also a lie.

And what pisses me off the most is that - as you can see in the picture - everyone else, before AND after, complimented me for the car, but Lyft accepted this flag and will leave there as a bad mark until God knows when!

2 days in a row I have had pax cancel while I am enroute to them, but have not received a cancelation fee. I had been driving for several minutes, so well over the one minute mark to qualify for the fee. Its usually only like 2-3 bucks, but its something for my wasted time. The last couple times I haven't received a fee nor is the ride even in my recent activity so I'm not even able to use support (bot) chat to get the fee, I would have to call and wait for a real person and its just not worth it.

Is Lyft no longer giving cancelation fee if pax cancels while you're enroute or has this happened to anyone else?

Is it greed, is it the economy, is it the cost of data centers, is it insurance? what is the actual truth.

Already know which one it was and did my due diligence when I woke up this morning and gave a 1 star plus a description of how they were complaining about how small my car is....ORDER AN EXTRA COMFORT.

I tried to lock my bike, it didnt lock so I tried the next slot and it did actually lock and couldn't pull the bike back when I tried to do so, so I assumed ride was over. Got a email 4 hours later saying I got charged 75$ because I didn't end the ride. I guess I could have checked whether the ride ended in the app but since I couldn't physically pull it, I didnt feel the need to do so. When I replied to the email explaining the situation they said it was nonrefundable. Im an international student and this fee is too much for me. It just doesn't feel just.

Hi everyone,

The mod team wanted to put out a quick warning regarding a common scam targeting gig workers, specifically car wrap and vehicle advertising fraud. We recently blocked a sophisticated attempt by scammers trying to post an exclusive, paid opportunity for Tesla owners and Uber/Lyft drivers in San Francisco offering up to five hundred dollars a month to wrap their cars. To make themselves look legitimate, these scammers are actively impersonating real companies. In this specific case, they used the name of an AI software company called Vorflux, which has absolutely nothing to do with vehicle wraps or physical marketing campaigns.

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Stay safe out there!

So I’m driving right now and I’m in a 70% bonus zone the rides that are coming in are for the same fair as driving yesterday with a 30% bonus zone. Yesterday on the map more than 10 rides going to the airport priced at 35$ from this location. Today with a 70% the rides are 25$ from the same locations to the airport. Like the bonus is just bull because my rates today for the last two hours have been around 70% bonus and all the prices for the rides are just similar or worse than yesterday.

“Do you have the address?”

“Cool car. What kind of car is this?”

“What’s your name again?” (Followed by quickly reading your name aloud off the app on their phone)

“Can one of us sit up front?” (4 passengers in my 5 seat car)

“I can tell you how to get there…” (Drunk guy/chick who called ME because they couldn’t get themselves home)

Standing at the entrance of one way very crowded pick up spots (concerts, Disneyland, stadiums,etc). You are part of the problem. This is why it is so backed up for a mile…

The infamous no code/no communication to gated communities.

Ordering rides while still on the plane.

Walking to the car while actively eating the food you just left the restaurant. What, did you tell the server to get a doggy bag so you can finish the meal in a stranger’s car going 70 miles per hour with minimal clean up tools?

What else you got?

we are right to cancel right? I’ve had several trips added as soon as I drop off in the middle of deep after work traffic in Hollywood and had to cancel more than once because itll add an additional 20 ish minutes to pick up and then to only go less than 5 miles. insanity. I received many many(13) 4$ rides last night in insane traffic and just denied em all. I assume all drivers were doing the same. couldve had more than 20 rides done but the money and distance did not justify the time wasted to be stuck in traffic. also 3 different passengers took my charging cables after I asked for them back…wtf LYFT and they refused to issue any sort of compensation at all.

This only started happening last week but now when I get a ride it just cuts my music off and doesn’t play it. Is this on my end?

How much does the smooth cruiser really matter? My passengers are constantly complimenting my driving but I live in Dallas with a bunch of idiots. If you get on the tollway and are not speeding you will cause a traffic jam and people will run you over. I leave room in front of me but someone is going to fly into that space and then hit their brakes. One guy in particular was late for meeting and asked if I could try to get him there in time. When we got there he said I was an amazing driver and liked how I was able to get him there fast yet he felt safe the whole time. Also does it track it when there is no passenger in the car? I do drive a bit more aggressive when I am heading to pick someone up because I'm not making any money at the point and the longer I take the less I make. I'm trying to earn money not smooth cruiser of the year.

Here I am on my way to a pickup and I’m stuck in a 1 lane street waiting for the turning lane to advance and I’m like 30 cars behind. This street is directly behind a high school. Why this passenger trying to be sarcastic sent me this message. So I responded back (she answered after I took the screenshot with an “OK”). So because she probably thought she was being funny, I decided to be funny too. I kept the ride, finally got out of that traffic and headed towards the location. Once I drove by the address I hit the “CANCEL- UNSAFE TO PUCKUP”. It was a nice pay there was a huge surge, but I didn’t care at that point. I hope they learned their lesson.

Today was the first time I’ve had a rider get in my car and I ask them to get out and cancelled because they reeked of smoke. Usually I say nothing and just try to get to the destination as fast as possible but today I wasn’t in the mode.

Do passengers like this ever considering how nasty and bad they smell and how the cigarette/cigar/weed smells lingers on their clothes and it’s a huge inconvenience to others.

Last time I was nice enough to take a customer like this and I had to ride around for 20 minutes with all 4 windows down to get the smell out and even then it still lingered.

They told me they were going to report me but at this point I don’t care.

Lyfts AI thinks I tried to make a false claim. This is a load of crap. So no claim for having to clean up this crap…. Think I’ll stop driving ride share because of this.

I accepted a Lyft ride today, i get to the house and i have a ten minute timer countdown.

First off, Lyft did not mention anything about a reservation when i accepted the ride.

I get their and i cancel because their is too much ti.e and they also were being deceptive.

Lyft is a very very shady company.

They do not disclose all the info a rider needs and cause us to waste our gas, miles and time.

Lyft also send alot of around $20 hr rides which i deny asap. $20 hr- fuel, car wash, pil change, tires, alignment, maintence, gas $4.57 gal. Insurance and paying taxes.

That $20 is now about $10 if your lucky, maybe $8 hr.

So, for all you'll scavengers that accept below minimum wage after expenses.

Good luck to you and Lyft for your bottom feeder service.

It seems like whenever my acceptance rate gets to a certain point, all of a sudden I will get several "lapses in connectivity" texts from Lyft saying its affecting my acceptance rate. I try to keep it at 90% and it seems whenever I should be getting it above 90%, I get that text then all of a sudden it drops to 88%. Does this happen to anyone else?