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Giving them an address for pickup works as well as a ___location based tracking and allows you to tell them to meet you 5 blocks away if you are on the move when you call.

The driver didn't know the neighbourhood nickname you gave..did you give them an address? You have to searching the map on Uber anyways, did you search your google map for the address?

Taxis will go down the streets you tell them while you drive. Turn left or right next lights work. It's more flexible than ubers pre determined route.

Immigrants have more street smarts than you give them credit for. They literally uprooted their lives from places who generally scam more than the places they move to. They have taken a scammier cab ride before they even left their home country.




> The driver didn't know the neighbourhood nickname you gave..did you give them an address?

They asked for the neighborhood not the address because that’s how pricing is determined. When you’re a taxi driver… you learn the neighborhoods. Especially one of the most well known neighborhoods on manhattan.

> Immigrants have more street smarts than you give them credit for.

I mean no ill towards immigrants. Immigration is scary and hard. But being “street smart” in a different city doesn’t always translate directly. They’re not expected to know that they’re about to be scammed! They shouldn’t be getting scammed!


> Giving them an address for pickup works as well as a ___location based tracking and allows you to tell them to meet you 5 blocks away if you are on the move when you call.

Or you can just put a note in the app when you order and send messages. They can also call you.

If you don’t speak their language, the Uber app does translations.

> Immigrants have more street smarts than you give them credit for

When I spent 3 weeks in Los Cabos, Mexico. I had no street smarts, I didn’t know the language and when we were stuck in traffic, Uber automatically sent calls because it noticed we weren’t moving.


> The driver didn't know the neighbourhood nickname you gave

Chelsea is a large, well-known neighborhood in Manhattan. It's had the same name since the 1700s. It is not an obscure nickname.




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