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Uber Improves The UberPOOL Experience

As part of Uber’s 180 days of change, Uber has updated UberPOOL so that is more attractive for drivers.

  • Pickup fares – You will now earn an extra flat fare for every additional pickup you have during your UberPOOL trip. After dropping off the final rider, you will see the total pickup fare that you have earned.
  • Education for new UberPOOL riders – Riders using UberPOOL for the first time will now be educated on what they will experience during their trip. They will receive tips on how to be a great POOL rider as well. After their trip is over, they will receive an email for additional education on UberPOOL.
  • Arrival time reminders for riders – POOL riders will now receive notifications reminding them when you will be arriving as well as being able to see your location. This allows them to be better prepared for your arrival.
  • Straighter routes – Routing has been updated so that unnecessary turns are more likely to be eliminated, offering you a more straightforward route. This provides less stress and can save you gas.
  • Suggested pickup and dropoff locations for riders – The Uber app will suggest pickup and dropoff locations for riders. If they accept, the route will be adjusted automatically.
  • Safer pickup and dropoff locations for riders – If the Uber app detects that a rider is requesting a pickup or dropoff in a restricted area, the pickup or dropoff location will be moved to a safer spot.
  • End-of-trip-ratings for all riders – After you drop off your last POOL rider, you will be able to rate every rider at once from the same screen. Just make any adjustments you need and swipe to complete the ratings.

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What Is UberPOOL?

UberPOOL is a service that allows passengers to share costs with other passengers that need to get to the same location as you. For example, if you want to go to the mall and end up using UberPOOL, you will be picked up and there may already be another passenger in the car that picks you up. If there is no one, you will probably need to pick up more passengers before getting to the mall. You will split the price with every passenger in the car, which means a cheaper ride for everyone.

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Is UberPOOL Failing?

As an Uber passenger, UberPOOL is one of Uber’s cheapest services for you to take if you want to get somewhere. It’s cheap because you share the costs with other drivers. Lately, the service has been under a lot of controversy, however, because of its pay rate for the drivers.

Additionally, reports have come out showing how UberPOOL might actually be a profit killer for the company. It was reported that back in 2015, Uber was burning 1 million dollars per week in San Francisco alone  at times just to compete with the prices of Uber’s biggest competitor in the United States. This money was spent on trying to attract customers with low fares by using discounts. Once the discounts ended, about a quarter of Uber passengers supposedly switched to its competitors.

UberPOOL might continue to be losing money to this day trying to make the service appealing to passengers, but with a combination of drivers angry at the service for a lack of pay as well as its competitors competitive prices, drastic changes will need to be made to save UberPOOL.

Uber has attempted to revamp the system to be better and more responsive with a better algorithm to better match riders and drivers but it’s still too early to tell what the effect will be on the service.

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Uber Introduces Express POOL

Uber has introduced a new program called express POOL, which combines its new smarter drop-offs system with UberPOOL. This program is just like UberPOOL but with a few changes that can make your trips smoother.

How it works is riders will schedule their POOL rides in advance and wait at a designated area. Other passengers may be waiting there with you for the same ride. Once you are picked up, you will be driven to either the location that you have picked, or dropped off at a location near your destination and you will need to walk the rest of your way to your destination.

This system optimizes routes so that both the driver and riders do not need to deal with loops around the block and riders can get to their destination faster.

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