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0 pointsrileymat23y ago0 comments

From the Uber fare estimator for a trip in East Lansing Michigan. Per-minute $0.17 Per-mile $1.20

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What is the catch? Drivers do not make any money while driving to pick someone up or after dropping someone off. Often, when I tried out driving, about half the miles driven were without a fare.

Subtract the service fees from those numbers and it gets less lucrative.

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rileymat2OP3y ago

Often pickup traffic was very "directional" people going to the bar at one time, people leaving at another, so often you would have to drive back to where you started the last fare for the next one.

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rileymat2OP3y ago

Often pickup traffic was very "directional" people going to the bar at one time, people leaving at another, so often you would have to drive back to where you started the last fare for the next one.

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