Have you had a bad taxi / ride hailing experience in South Africa?

Have you had a bad taxi / ride hailing experience in South Africa?

  • Yes

    Votes: 33 52.4%

  • No

    Votes: 30 47.6%
  • Total voters
    63
Bradley Prior

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Have you had a bad taxi / ride hailing experience in South Africa?

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99% of e-hailing drivers using manual transmission vehicles have NO cooking clue how to use gears & brakes correctly - when they accelerate, they either change UP gears so quickly that they are doing 50km/h in top gear - WAY below the engine's peak power / torque curves, and they also fail miserably to change DOWN gears when going up a hill that the engine is labouring and almost stalling - and, instead of combining engine braking with the physical brakes, depress the clutch / put it in neutral and coast to a stop - only applying brakes viciously at the last moment to prevent crashing into the stationary vehicle in front of them...
 
The EVs that Bolt Electric are now using should have their software set to ECO mode, their regen braking set to HIGH / One Pedal Braking, HVAC set to AUTO at 23 deg C, and also EVERY ADAS system enabled as well (all with a password protected lock-out, so that they CANNOT change these settings)... ;)

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This one guy started talking started talking about the bible and said "you devils are gonna go to hell". One way conversation the whole way.


Didn't even notice I put on earphones.
 
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The usual "old" new cars, bad condition etc. but the one thing I despise the most is the begging for petrol money right after they pick you up - with the associated implication that you will get stuck without petrol somewhere on the way to your destination.
 
HAL 9000 said:
99% of e-hailing drivers using manual transmission vehicles have NO cooking clue how to use gears & brakes correctly - when they accelerate, they either change UP gears so quickly that they are doing 50km/h in top gear - WAY below the engine's peak power / torque curves, and they also fail miserably to change DOWN gears when going up a hill that the engine is labouring and almost stalling - and, instead of combining engine braking with the physical brakes, depress the clutch / put it in neutral and coast to a stop - only applying brakes viciously at the last moment to prevent crashing into the stationary vehicle in front of them...
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And the riding of the clutch drives my OCD insane...
 
Been in several where you can clearly hear the transmission is about to blow up.
Been in many where they put their indigineous music on, loud
Body odour

Also been in one, in 30 degree weather... dom k0nt had the heater on, on full.. thought I was going to die.

They drive like taxi drivers
They ride the clutch, I wonder if LUK's stock price is climbing because of Uber/Bolt
Some cars have insane mileage- the favourite is a Toyota Etios with 865,000km on the clock... WTAF, and when it goes around the corner you can hear something is broken at the back
 
HAL 9000 said:
The EVs that Bolt Electric are now using should have their software set to ECO mode, their regen braking set to HIGH / One Pedal Braking, HVAC set to AUTO at 23 deg C, and also EVERY ADAS system enabled as well (all with a password protected lock-out, so that they CANNOT change these settings)... ;)

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Well done, I know exactly where that is located. Do you work for them?
Looks like they eventually fixed the one that drove into a bus a while back
 
HAL 9000 said:
Nope - just did a Google Search for a representative photo of a Bolt EV & this one popped up... ;)
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I am not going to state what my involvement was there, but that's their operations building. One of them is definitely repaired. They waited almost 4 months for parts
 
well ...

- the wife once had to listen to complaints the entire ride of how Uber does not pay enough and that the pittance from her trip makes no difference and how he's quitting Uber and it is his last day

- I got picked up by one who claimed somebody just rear-ended him, the boot could no longer close and I had to listen to the car alarm blaring all the way home

- more recently the Uber driver clearly missed the turnoff home that would have been the quickest route from the highway, I thought no matter, the next exit isn't that much worse ... except he missed that too and took a 20min plus detour, at the very end missed the turn to the last street as well and made a u-turn into oncoming traffic when he realised his mistake, this was all with navigation on and accurately telling him what to do, mofo was not paying any attention at all
 
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