If you're a frequent cab service user, you know that there are some special Uber drivers on the road that go above and beyond to earn that precious five-star rating from you - or the opposite. They might have stocked their ride full of free goodies, brought their adorable dog along in the backseat, told you a painfully funny story, or given you outstandingly friendly customer service even when you were out-of-your-mind drunk. On the flipside, maybe they got terribly lost trying to find you, crashed their car and kicked you out in the pouring rain, or just creeped you the F out. Driving for Uber isn't for everyone, after all. Love it or hate it, Uber has certainly brought many cherished memories, hilarious stories, and the possibility to meet many funny people, and we're honoring that by rounding up the best ones we could find on the Internet. Scroll down to find out how those best driver ratings are earned and lost on the road, and tell us the best or worst Uber experience you've had in the comments.
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This Is The Best Uber
Friend Left Her Purse In An Uber On Nye. Found Some Interesting Pictures On Her Phone When She Retrieved It The Following Day
Coolest Uber Driver
There are many, many Deaf and hard of hearing drivers on the road. Hearing can be an asset, but I find that paying attention to your surroundings is more important. I would hazard to guess that the number of accidents caused by loss of hearing are very few if any.
In addition, YES it's safe for a deaf person to drive. If not, they would be unable to obtain ac driver's license. People are denied driver's licenses all the time due to medical restrictions. This is one I'm definitely not worried about.
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I'm curious. Do deaf drivers use or have installed in their cars anything that assists those with hearing impairment? I know there are devices to aid other drivers with disabilities such as pedal extenders etc. Am curious if there are such aids for deaf drivers.
I've prevented a few crashes by honking, even cases that I wouldn't have been involved but alerted the distracted drivers. So, I know that hearing helps a lot. But, I guess that same as blind people have the other senses heightened, probably deaf have great vision and reflexes. Also, they don't hear but usually (if not all) have a great censor for sound vibrations
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Not to say that there's anything wrong with that people but don't you think you need to hear traffic to be able to decipher it slamming on brakes in a different car if I couldn't hear that and I didn't stop in time I crash into him
So I get done voted for asking a curious question next time you get into a car put in earplugs when you drive and tell me it doesn't scare the c**p out of you I don't even walk down the street listening to music cuz I feel like my senses are being taken away I am going to be unsafe
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The Best Uber Driver In The World
6 Stars
This Driver
My Uber Had A Bird In His Car Who Looked Just Like Jack Nicholson
Ordered An Uber In Manhattan, This Is Who Showed Up
My Uber Driver Let His Grandkids Decorate The Car For Halloween
My Uber Driver Was Dressed For Halloween!
Uber Driver Pretended To Be My Relative
Great Sign In An Uber Today
Another Hot Day In Uber
My Uber Had N64!
A Friend Sent Me This From His Trip To Dubai, An Uber Mclaren Picking Up Someone From His Hotel
I Think My Uber Driver Is In Trouble
After A Night Of Fairly Heavy Drinking, I Woke Up To Find I Took A Very Unnecessary Cab Ride... Thank You Uber For Rubbing It In My Face With The Detailed Map....
My Uber Driver Picked Us Up With A Dog. I Repeat. Had. A. Pupper
How To Receive 5 Stars As An Uber Driver
You know, somehow it makes me feel sad :/ I'm just happy with a nice driver, polite... funny is a plus, but I certainly don't need them to turn into a mobile-grocery store just tu fulfill my desires and get 5 stars. I don't give a c**p about sweets and sour patch, I just want someone nice, period.
This Racer
A Cloud With Lightning, A Fireplace And A Moon - Arguably The Coolest Uber Ever
Uber Driver Gave Me His Business Card Last Night
A Christmas Card From My #uber Driver. How Lovely Is That?
Heated Seats, Oh Wait
Was Having A Bad Day Until My Uber Came... Glow In The Dark Ceiling Stickers, So Cute!
The Uber Driver This Morning...
My Uber Driver Had An Nes Set Up In The Backseat
Today A Self Driving Uber Picked Me Up
Awkward Eye Contact With My Uber Driver
My Uber Driver From Earlier Just Texted Me
So I Got An Uber Last Night
Pushing My Uber Driver To Consider Wearing A Santa Hat To Get His Riders In The Spirit, To Which He Asks If I Looked Up... How Did I Miss
Friend Discovered An Amazing Uber Driver Who's 100% Dedicated
This Is By Far The Coolest Uber Car I've Ever Been In
Uber Driver Said "Watch This" Drifted And Then Crash Into A Post, Had To Walk 2 Miles Home On The Freezing Rain
Pray For Us
Your Uber driver just made walking look a thousand times more appealing
Hat Face
My Uber Driver Brought Her Kid Im Laughing So Hard I Had To Apologize
When You Drive An Uber But You Got Your Assignment Due As Well...
Found In An Uber Last Night
This Uber Driver
As cute and creative as these are, I am not sure what to think of them. These decorations are done so that the Uber drivers don't loose their job. The rating system is ultra capitalist and super competitive. Giving a driver a 4 star rating (out of 5) means that they could loose their job. Glad we don't have ueber here.
Seems to me they spend all their hard earned money on those "accessories". I feel for them
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As an uber driver we do what we can to make the rider feel special we offer water ,tissue, candy etc the rating is awful for a driver we are not in competition on our ratings we are in fear of making a rider mad that they give us lower than a 5 because the more riders that give us less than a five our rate goes down and we loose our jobs. So we think of creative ways to make the rider happy as this is not always easy to do. I say if you got to point a-b safe and your driver was nice give them that 5 .
Ok, I never used Uber: What the point of the 5 stars? Do they win more money? Do they turn themselves into grocery stores for the tip? Do they just like to "unlock the achievement" of the 5 stars? Do they win the right to have a legendary armor or a cute mount?
Ueber ratings are ultra competetive. If a drivers rating is below 4,7 stars, passengers might cancel their drive on a whim without refund. If a drivers rating falls below 4,6, they might get a probiation. If it falls consistenly below the average regional stars, drivers might loose their job.
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my very first time using uber, my driver looked over at me and gushed about how beautiful my eyes were. Then proceeded to take a picture of me to "show his teenage daughter" . . . wut?
my uber driver surprised me with drving like a maniac and sexually harassing me
That's so sad. I'm sorry that happened to you Ethel. I have experienced that in a normal taxi, just over 3 years ago. That same night, my so called obsessed "friend" also sexually assaulted me.
Load More Replies... I had two freaking Uber experiences on my first week. First the driver snoozed out in the middle of the highway going to the airport. Second the driver saw we were tourists and did a huge detour. We paid 4x more and the journey took almost 1 and a 1/2 hours instead of 20 or 30 minutes. Me and my mom were creeped out, to make it worse my battery was dying, even faster than usual as I had uber, Waze and google maps open, WhatsApp with 2 groups of friends and with an uncle whose brother is an Uber driver (was trying to find costumer service number here in Brazil as I was desperate, we didn't know what he planned to do). To make it worse, when he was gonna drop us at the shopping mall, instead of going to the main entrance, he got to a terribly dark and narrow worse-than-backroad. He even tried tricking us to pay twice (was on credit card and he wanted us to pay cash). I filed a report on a popular costumer complaints website, Uber never replied but at least refunded part of my money.
That's not how uber works. You pay up front, the length of the travel doesn't affect your fare
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Wowsers. So many of these are against Uber's TOS. Especially the physical contact/date request ones. Plus, I'm not going to spend a lot of $$ on amenities on riders who do not tip. I had water/gum/mints/charging cables and didn't even get the common courtesy of a thank you from most.
Uber Driver -‘‘Howdy, Passenger,I'm traveling with my dog for years,It will be in the car, any problem?, by the way, You can call me Mr. Krueger” ME - Well, What's Your First Name? After 2 Hours Uber Driver - Freddy “At That Moment, He Knew he f****ed up” Based on a Real Life Event experienced by Raptorex Scarpion
BTW to all y'all to say loose that's talking about how tight for example a piece of clothing is. When you LOSE a game, you did not win. When you LOSE your job, you got fired. There is a difference and it is a big one especially for non-native English speakers.
Well to be honest with you I'm not really sure what's going on sorry
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/las-vegas-shooting-latest-today-gunman-stephen-paddock-profile-gambler-loner-wealthy-debts-manadalay-a7979881.html
Load More Replies... As cute and creative as these are, I am not sure what to think of them. These decorations are done so that the Uber drivers don't loose their job. The rating system is ultra capitalist and super competitive. Giving a driver a 4 star rating (out of 5) means that they could loose their job. Glad we don't have ueber here.
Seems to me they spend all their hard earned money on those "accessories". I feel for them
Load More Replies... As an uber driver we do what we can to make the rider feel special we offer water ,tissue, candy etc the rating is awful for a driver we are not in competition on our ratings we are in fear of making a rider mad that they give us lower than a 5 because the more riders that give us less than a five our rate goes down and we loose our jobs. So we think of creative ways to make the rider happy as this is not always easy to do. I say if you got to point a-b safe and your driver was nice give them that 5 .
Ok, I never used Uber: What the point of the 5 stars? Do they win more money? Do they turn themselves into grocery stores for the tip? Do they just like to "unlock the achievement" of the 5 stars? Do they win the right to have a legendary armor or a cute mount?
Ueber ratings are ultra competetive. If a drivers rating is below 4,7 stars, passengers might cancel their drive on a whim without refund. If a drivers rating falls below 4,6, they might get a probiation. If it falls consistenly below the average regional stars, drivers might loose their job.
Load More Replies... my very first time using uber, my driver looked over at me and gushed about how beautiful my eyes were. Then proceeded to take a picture of me to "show his teenage daughter" . . . wut?
my uber driver surprised me with drving like a maniac and sexually harassing me
That's so sad. I'm sorry that happened to you Ethel. I have experienced that in a normal taxi, just over 3 years ago. That same night, my so called obsessed "friend" also sexually assaulted me.
Load More Replies... I had two freaking Uber experiences on my first week. First the driver snoozed out in the middle of the highway going to the airport. Second the driver saw we were tourists and did a huge detour. We paid 4x more and the journey took almost 1 and a 1/2 hours instead of 20 or 30 minutes. Me and my mom were creeped out, to make it worse my battery was dying, even faster than usual as I had uber, Waze and google maps open, WhatsApp with 2 groups of friends and with an uncle whose brother is an Uber driver (was trying to find costumer service number here in Brazil as I was desperate, we didn't know what he planned to do). To make it worse, when he was gonna drop us at the shopping mall, instead of going to the main entrance, he got to a terribly dark and narrow worse-than-backroad. He even tried tricking us to pay twice (was on credit card and he wanted us to pay cash). I filed a report on a popular costumer complaints website, Uber never replied but at least refunded part of my money.
That's not how uber works. You pay up front, the length of the travel doesn't affect your fare
Load More Replies... Wowsers. So many of these are against Uber's TOS. Especially the physical contact/date request ones. Plus, I'm not going to spend a lot of $$ on amenities on riders who do not tip. I had water/gum/mints/charging cables and didn't even get the common courtesy of a thank you from most.
Uber Driver -‘‘Howdy, Passenger,I'm traveling with my dog for years,It will be in the car, any problem?, by the way, You can call me Mr. Krueger” ME - Well, What's Your First Name? After 2 Hours Uber Driver - Freddy “At That Moment, He Knew he f****ed up” Based on a Real Life Event experienced by Raptorex Scarpion
BTW to all y'all to say loose that's talking about how tight for example a piece of clothing is. When you LOSE a game, you did not win. When you LOSE your job, you got fired. There is a difference and it is a big one especially for non-native English speakers.
Well to be honest with you I'm not really sure what's going on sorry
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/las-vegas-shooting-latest-today-gunman-stephen-paddock-profile-gambler-loner-wealthy-debts-manadalay-a7979881.html
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