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Is there a new nuisance on the road these days?

These Uber drivers driving around at 10kph on their phones slowing down traffic, making u-turns everywhere :D
 
100% agreed, and then they stop without any warning light or indicator and get mad when you hoot them.

I live in a busy street with quite a few restaurants and it's a constant irritation.
 
b_crazy said:
Is there a new nuisance on the road these days?

These Uber drivers driving around at 10kph on their phones slowing down traffic, making u-turns everywhere :D
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How do you distinguish Uber drivers from others? I can't recall having ever identified one, and as far as I know, they use their own vehicles and have no advertising.

I mean, I've seen many people do what you describe, but that seems to be a general nuisance, and not isolated to Uber drivers, so I'm curious as to how you'd identify them specifically.
 
Ho3n3r said:
How do you distinguish Uber drivers from others? I can't recall having ever identified one, and as far as I know, they use their own vehicles and have no advertising.

I mean, I've seen many people do what you describe, but that seems to be a general nuisance, and not isolated to Uber drivers, so I'm curious as to how you'd identify them specifically.
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It's the Toyota Corolla, innit?
 
Ho3n3r said:
How do you distinguish Uber drivers from others? I can't recall having ever identified one, and as far as I know, they use their own vehicles and have no advertising.

I mean, I've seen many people do what you describe, but that seems to be a general nuisance, and not isolated to Uber drivers, so I'm curious as to how you'd identify them specifically.
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White or silver Corolla with a GPS on the windscreen, black guy driving with a white passenger, it's an UBER. You can spot them immediately.
 
Most of the Uber drivers I've seen in Cape Town are from African countries, so they're easy to spot. Also, they drive **** slow, so that's how I know it's them.
 
Just took a Taxify earlier on. 1yr old Etios. Driver looked "African". Relatively slow driver & not keen on allowing ample stopping distances between other vehicles.
 
Another unintentional consequence of Ubers success is hoards of them parking all over the place, within the suburbs, making a mess like normal taxis. We have this problem in Sunninghill. They even started washing their cars with river water like the minibus taxis, all while throwing their litter everywhere...
 
The_MAC said:
Another unintentional consequence of Ubers success is hoards of them parking all over the place, within the suburbs, making a mess like normal taxis. We have this problem in Sunninghill. They even started washing their cars with river water like the minibus taxis, all while throwing their litter everywhere...
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They love to park right in front of our complex gates. Constant hooting to get them out of the way.
 
mercurial said:
Honestly, I have only seen African men and our local guys doing Uber.
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I've had a few white and coloured drivers in CPT, indians in Durban. Only blacks in Joburg as far as I can remember.

That's over 200+ trips.
 
The_MAC said:
Another unintentional consequence of Ubers success is hoards of them parking all over the place, within the suburbs, making a mess like normal taxis. We have this problem in Sunninghill. They even started washing their cars with river water like the minibus taxis, all while throwing their litter everywhere...
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They've started driving like taxis as well, I'm guessing at the insistence of the passenger. But noticed more and more in yellow lanes, turning from "straight only" lanes and all that.
 
Yeah, you do see this. Some of these drivers seem really challenged by the concept of following a line on a map to a location. I often get picked up outside my office on a straight road nowhere near an intersection with clearly marked street numbers, and despite my location showing 100% correctly on the map, the drivers frequently stop half a block away or around the nearest corner and phone to ask where I am. I mean, how hard can it be?
 
garp said:
Yeah, you do see this. Some of these drivers seem really challenged by the concept of following a line on a map to a location. I often get picked up outside my office on a straight road nowhere near an intersection with clearly marked street numbers, and despite my location showing 100% correctly on the map, the drivers frequently stop half a block away or around the nearest corner and phone to ask where I am. I mean, how hard can it be?
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metered taxi harassment? Ambush?
 
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