Are Your Uber and Lyft Habits Normal?

By @InternJohnRadio

December 3, 2019

Are your Uber and Lyft habits normal? Over 20,000 people recently took an online poll on ride-share services. Here are seven questions, and how people answered them . . .

1. Uber or Lyft? 70% said Uber, 26% prefer Lyft, and 4% use some other app.

2. Do you normally wait outside or inside? 59% said they wait outside by the curb.

3. Do you like talking to your driver? Only 5% said yes, always. 67% said it depends on their mood, or on the driver. 28% almost always prefer no talking.

4. Do you sit up front, or in the back? 10% of us prefer sitting up front with the driver.

5. Is it common for you to ask the driver to change the music, or mess with the temperature? 88% said no, it's not worth the hassle.

Male crowdsourced taxi driver talking with passenger in car

6. How casual are you with a five-star review? 79% usually give their driver five stars, unless something really bad happens. 16% don't normally rate drivers. Only 5% said they're strict with their five-star reviews.

7. Do you tip them? 43% usually do . . . 29% said rarely or never . . . and 28% said yes, but only if there's a special reason. 

(BuzzFeed)

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