Uber has announced Pickup Corrections, a new feature that lets you update your pickup location. The company also announced new driver support policies today.
Pickup Corrections
Pickups are one of the hardest parts of the experience to get right, and they’re especially difficult when riders accidentally request a pickup from the wrong place. It often begins with a phone call and ends with a canceled ride. A small miscue leads to a frustrating situation where riders aren’t riding, and drivers aren’t earning.
Now we’re enabling riders on iOS in the US, Canada and the UK to update their pickup location if they happened to request from the wrong place. We’ve tested this feature in a handful of cities and found that it led to fewer cancellations (and less stress), and we plan to roll it out to all riders across the US, Canada and UK in the coming weeks starting today.
Here’s how it works:
● Once your driver is en route, tap “edit” next to your pickup location
● Enter your new pickup address, and tap “confirm”
Once a rider updates their pickup location, drivers will be notified of the new location and have their route updated (experience will vary for in-app and out-of-app navigation).
Driver Support Policies
Many drivers have told us that some of our support policies feel stacked against them and seem to put riders’ interests above theirs. In response to that feedback, we’ve begun to make updates to customer support policies in the US and Canada that give drivers more of a say on concerns and complaints that affect their bottom line, including:
● Rider Complaints: When looking into rider complaints related to poor driving, we’ll now take into account driver history. Going forward someone with three rider complaints but just 100 trips under their belt will be treated very differently than a driver who has received three complaints but completed 10,000 trips. Instead of a one-size-fits all approach, this policy will take the entirety of a driver’s time using Uber into account.
● Wrong Driver Reports: In addition to relying on rider feedback when suspending a driver—for example, a rider writes in saying that their driver didn’t look like the picture in the app—we will use technology like Real Time ID to validate that the driver is who they say they are and get them back on the road quickly. This will mean less unnecessary time off the road for drivers.
● Wrong Rider Pickups: There are times when riders report that someone took a trip on their account that wasn’t them. Before, we used to take the rider’s word for it. Now, if a driver disputes this claim, we’ll use technology and input from drivers to determine and validate what actually took place.
● Fare Adjustments: We will now give drivers a say in fare adjustments. For example, there are times when riders accidentally cancel a trip while they’re still on the way to their destination. When this happened in the past, the driver was paid out up to the point of cancellation, even if they claim that they completed the trip. We realized this approach didn’t give appropriate consideration to the driver’s perspective. Going forward, if a driver disputes a fare adjustment, we will validate the claim and make sure they are appropriately compensated
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Pickup Corrections
Pickups are one of the hardest parts of the experience to get right, and they’re especially difficult when riders accidentally request a pickup from the wrong place. It often begins with a phone call and ends with a canceled ride. A small miscue leads to a frustrating situation where riders aren’t riding, and drivers aren’t earning.
Now we’re enabling riders on iOS in the US, Canada and the UK to update their pickup location if they happened to request from the wrong place. We’ve tested this feature in a handful of cities and found that it led to fewer cancellations (and less stress), and we plan to roll it out to all riders across the US, Canada and UK in the coming weeks starting today.
Here’s how it works:
● Once your driver is en route, tap “edit” next to your pickup location
● Enter your new pickup address, and tap “confirm”
Once a rider updates their pickup location, drivers will be notified of the new location and have their route updated (experience will vary for in-app and out-of-app navigation).
Driver Support Policies
Many drivers have told us that some of our support policies feel stacked against them and seem to put riders’ interests above theirs. In response to that feedback, we’ve begun to make updates to customer support policies in the US and Canada that give drivers more of a say on concerns and complaints that affect their bottom line, including:
● Rider Complaints: When looking into rider complaints related to poor driving, we’ll now take into account driver history. Going forward someone with three rider complaints but just 100 trips under their belt will be treated very differently than a driver who has received three complaints but completed 10,000 trips. Instead of a one-size-fits all approach, this policy will take the entirety of a driver’s time using Uber into account.
● Wrong Driver Reports: In addition to relying on rider feedback when suspending a driver—for example, a rider writes in saying that their driver didn’t look like the picture in the app—we will use technology like Real Time ID to validate that the driver is who they say they are and get them back on the road quickly. This will mean less unnecessary time off the road for drivers.
● Wrong Rider Pickups: There are times when riders report that someone took a trip on their account that wasn’t them. Before, we used to take the rider’s word for it. Now, if a driver disputes this claim, we’ll use technology and input from drivers to determine and validate what actually took place.
● Fare Adjustments: We will now give drivers a say in fare adjustments. For example, there are times when riders accidentally cancel a trip while they’re still on the way to their destination. When this happened in the past, the driver was paid out up to the point of cancellation, even if they claim that they completed the trip. We realized this approach didn’t give appropriate consideration to the driver’s perspective. Going forward, if a driver disputes a fare adjustment, we will validate the claim and make sure they are appropriately compensated
You can download Uber from the App Store for free.
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