Saturday, January 3, 2015

how Uber black was stolen by Uber x blog 01/02/2015

FROM NOTIFICATIONS
Rick Lesley
8 hrs · Philadelphia, PA
This is for all of you
UBER X drivers .
While you are out there remember that every dollar you get you have stolen from the UBER Black " partners "
Those are the people
Who paid 40,000. For a nice car ( not you )
Those are the people who made the effort and investment to get properly licensed. ( not you )
And the ones that make sure their riders are safe , protected and properly insured with COMMERCIAL insurance . ( not you )
So you UBERX people just remember all the families of Black Car Partners who are suffering financially because of your greedy get rich quick opprortunity .
UBER on
UBER X
and SLEEPWELL
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History of Uber, Lyft ride DOWN!!! 01/02/2015


Rachel Galindo
2 hrs
Snagged from Lyfters Nationwide~Pretty damned accurate, I'd safely say....
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Josh Ross
2 hrs
History of ridesharing in Los angeles:
Josh Ross's perspective
Feb 2013: joined uber with the promise of 22 an hour.
Reality: Making 50 an hour
Rates: 2.75 a mile .60 a minute if going less than 11 mph and 5 dollar pickup with 8 dollar minimum
Lyft was operTing with a 18 dollar an hour floor and silly pink mustaches made me laugh.
April 2013: first uber cut to 2.50 a mile, 5 dollar minimum. 50 a minute if less than 11 mph and 3 dollar base fare
Earnings: 30-35 an hour
Lyft: still at 18 an hour floor and I still would not consider the silly logo on my car.
August 2013: millions of cars later uber does another rate cut to improve demand. Now more aggressive 2.00 a mile . .40 a minute and 3.00 minimum.
Earnings at uber: 10 dollars an hour prior to cut. I turned off my uber phone for almost a year and did Lyft.
Lyft : floor of 15 an hour weekdays and 25 an hour weekends. Earnings were 20-35 an hour steadily.
October 2013: Lyft gets rid of the floor but assured the drivers that they will use the caps to ensure steady earnings. Lyft was still in donation at this time.
November 2013: Lyft announced an expansion of cover area so they had to adjust the caps. Was slow about 15 an hour.
Lyft rates: Lyft was on donation so no one really knew what they were charging but oh lyfters all agree it was way more than they said when they went public with the rates.
Dec 2013: First Lyft price cut, very limiltless done. Lyft goes off of donation and announced that they are chargin 1.55 a mile and .35 a minute with a 4 dollar minimum.
Uber immediately changed their entire means of charging passengers to include both time and distance: the rate 1.50 a mile and .30 a minute with 3 dollar minumum.
Jan1 2014: uber faces backlash for New Years surge so they cut the rate to 1.25 a mile and .30 a minute and also cut their commission to 5%.
Some time winter 2014 Lyft rolls out the T&S fee because they are on the verge of bankruptcy.
Late feb 2014: happy hour was introduced. This was the perfect system. Slow hours would drop prices and busy times would raise with prime time . Base fares were the same. This was great. The screen would show happy hour and people would book Lyft even when Lyft was more than uber. But, Lyft management did not satiate their greed with this so they went on to :
March 2014: Lyft secured around 250 million financing and cuts rates to 1.25 a mile and .30 a minute. Also starts no commission period. Notice that this price matches uber. Lyft also gets rid of the caps they promised to keep when they got rid of the floor...
Uber at this time raises their commission. To 20% and adds a T&S fee, but to "soften the blow" they give drivers 1 dollar for every ride.
Earnings at this point were 25+ an hour for Lyft and about 15 for uber
Earnings for Lyft started at 25+ an hour and the next few months they underwent the largest car expansion in history of the transportation industry this raping earnings to about 5 an hour
2014: Lyft continues to "ride the wave". They undercut uber to 1.13 a mile .26 a minute and 3$ minimum.
May 2014: uber drivers now making 10 an hour so uber cuts to 1.10 a mile .21 a minute 4 minimum; the "summer special". They cut rates but paid drivers the old rates.
July 2014: Lyft reintroduces commission, and uber finalizes the summer special this taking it out of the drivers end. Uber also cuts the 1 dollar a trip incentive.
Earnings: Lyft -2.50 an hour very slow and uber 10 dollars an hour with back to back rides.
Oct 2014: Lyft further cuts the rates to match ubers current rates and Lyft drivers hold the
First stache burning party.
Pay: 20- 25 an hour for a month or so for Lyft
8-10 an hour for uber
Oct-December: Lyft management like a crazy cracked out greedy emotionally unstable child does the second largest expansion of cars in history. So bad that it would ruin the upcoming New Years eve and the entire industry.
New Years eve 2014:
Lyft like a fucking idiot announces guaranteed prime time and uber like a snake turns off their surge.
Driver earnings 10 an hour on New Years:
Current driver earnings:
Uber : 10 an hour
Lyft: you pay 5 an hour to drive.
This is what an unregulated industry results in. Especially when run by children who haven't the slightest modicum of a clue regarding how to manage a transportation company. Oh no wait, I stand corrected they are just payment processors right?
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  • 25 people like this.
  • Gary Freedline Everyone should read this
    2 hrs · Like · 7
  • Alain Achkar Sad but true, I witness every step in that ride sharing journey, 2015 is going to be continued, thx
    2 hrs · Like · 3
  • Mark Green Everybody pays $5 an hour to drive Lyft? These dumb exaggerations do nothing but take credibility away from the cause. And who's really going to listen to someone who claims to be losing money voluntarily, and keeps doing it day and and day out?
    2 hrs · Like
  • Cathy Flip Garziano 33 billion dollars worth of payment processing...and soon to go public. Which 'could' change things.
    1 hr · Like
  • Rachel Galindo Mark Green, I don't want to do Lyft in LA because you loose money, why do I want to driver 10-15 miles to get about 2 bucks, some people have more expensive hobbies than driving for lyft. You won't beleive it untily you feel it, I know.
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  • Gary Freedline the outline is spot on, and there are a lot of honesty in it. right off the bat he states the promise from Uber was $20 and hour and he averaged $50 which was correct at the time. 

    The timeline and estimates are spot on and confirmed by tons of drivers that know this timeline
    1 hr · Like · 2
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Uber was busy on New Year’s Eve BY CHARLES FLEMING LA Times 01022015

Uber was busy on New Year’s Eve
BY CHARLES FLEMING
   The ride-sharing service Uber gave 2 million rides globally over New Year’s Eve, breaking company records.
   More than 100,000 drivers and riders were in an Uber car at the stroke of midnight, the company said Thursday.
   More than 50,000 people used Uber at least twice through the night, when service appeared to peak in most areas around 2:30 a.m. Service seemed to be at its lowest point around 11 p.m., when the fewest number of rides of the night were being taken.
   The company reported New Year’s Eve was good for new business too. About 20,000 downloaded the Uber app, many of them presumably for the first time, to become Uber customers.
   Uber had predicted that it anticipated its busiest night ever.
   It also warned existing customers, on its website and in direct email announcements to users, that “surge pricing” would be in effect during peak hours, when demand would be at its highest. The email told customers they might pay as much as $100 for even a short ride.
   Many consumers in L.A. said the opposite was true and reported paying normal rates even during the busy post-midnight period.
   Competing service Lyft also said ahead of the holiday that New Year’s Eve 2014 would be its biggest night ever. The company did not respond to requests for data after the holiday had passed. charles.fleming
   @ latimes.com  
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Friday, January 2, 2015

Uber drivers say rideshare surge pricing backfired on New Year’s Eve | Transportation | San Francisco | San Francisco Examiner

Uber drivers say rideshare surge pricing backfired on New Year’s Eve | Transportation | San Francisco | San Francisco Examiner: "But Bay Area drivers made much less, and vented frustrations by the hundreds in social media forums.

"I worked ten hours for NYE in San Francisco. I could have made more last weekend during a normal Saturday night," one commenter on Reddit's UberDrivers forum wrote. "Uber has left me financially devastated trying to work with them."

"There should be some regulation on the numbers of drivers you allow to Lyft," another commenter wrote. "Otherwise it may seem that you are taking advantage of the fact that we are not paid salaries, and you reap the benefits regardless if it effects us."

Regulations don't limit the number of cars Uber or Lyft can allow on the road. They only limit the amount of traditional taxis.

"When there is oversupply, as we see with [Uber and Lyft], more and more drivers are competing for the same number of riders," Trevor Johnson, a cab driver and former taxi official, told The Examiner.

Among other reasons, government regulates the number of cabs, he said, "to ensure living wages for all drivers.""



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Thursday, January 1, 2015

ABOUT – California Coalition for Public Higher Education

ABOUT – California Coalition for Public Higher Education: "ABOUT
Purpose

The California Coalition for Public Higher Education was created to advance California’s future by restoring higher education as a top priority for our state. We need to stop the cycle of massive budget cuts that have caused skyrocketing tuition, larger class sizes, layoffs and furloughs.

The bottom line: continued cuts to higher education will erode the quality of the system and jeopardize California’s competitiveness and way of life.

DEFUNDING OF PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION
More than two decades of disinvestment in public higher education have been devastating to California students and families and wreaked havoc on our campuses.  A May 2012 report by the Public Policy Institute of California – “Defunding Higher Education: What Are the Effects on College Enrollment?” – found that:

* Higher tuitions, cuts to enrollments and other cuts to educational programs have meant high school graduates are less likely to attend any four-year college
* Many of our state’s best and brightest students are choosing to pursue university out of state, raising the specter of a brain drain
* For the first time in our state’s history young adults in California are less likely than older adults to have graduated from college
* California will be one million college graduates short of economic demand by 2025 unless enrollment and graduation rates improve substantially

While Proposition 30: The Schools and Local Public Safety Protection Act of 2012 and recent budget surpluses have brought desperately needed resources to colleges and universities, we have a long way to go to meet the state’s educational and workforce needs.

Focus

The Coalition’s political committees support public officials and help pass measures that bring vital resources to higher education. Through research, service and teaching, our higher education system provides the "



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ABOUT – California Coalition for Public Higher Education

ABOUT – California Coalition for Public Higher Education: "ABOUT
Purpose

The California Coalition for Public Higher Education was created to advance California’s future by restoring higher education as a top priority for our state. We need to stop the cycle of massive budget cuts that have caused skyrocketing tuition, larger class sizes, layoffs and furloughs.

The bottom line: continued cuts to higher education will erode the quality of the system and jeopardize California’s competitiveness and way of life.

DEFUNDING OF PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION
More than two decades of disinvestment in public higher education have been devastating to California students and families and wreaked havoc on our campuses.  A May 2012 report by the Public Policy Institute of California – “Defunding Higher Education: What Are the Effects on College Enrollment?” – found that:

* Higher tuitions, cuts to enrollments and other cuts to educational programs have meant high school graduates are less likely to attend any four-year college
* Many of our state’s best and brightest students are choosing to pursue university out of state, raising the specter of a brain drain
* For the first time in our state’s history young adults in California are less likely than older adults to have graduated from college
* California will be one million college graduates short of economic demand by 2025 unless enrollment and graduation rates improve substantially

While Proposition 30: The Schools and Local Public Safety Protection Act of 2012 and recent budget surpluses have brought desperately needed resources to colleges and universities, we have a long way to go to meet the state’s educational and workforce needs.

Focus

The Coalition’s political committees support public officials and help pass measures that bring vital resources to higher education. Through research, service and teaching, our higher education system provides the "



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