Uber has announced a new quality system to remove riders with persistently bad feedback. Soon Uber will begin notifying a small number of riders who have consistently received bad feedback from drivers, that they must improve their behaviour or they could lose access to the Uber app.
With this new policy, when Uber sees a pattern of riders getting consistently bad feedback, they will receive a warning and will be given advice on how to improve, if they continue to receive bad feedback from drivers after warnings, the next step would be to temporarily suspend their account for one week and if still there is no improvement eventually face the possibility of full deactivation.
Alon Lits, General Manager for Uber Sub-Saharan Africa explains, “We have recently updated our community guidelines which extends the same behavioural standards to the riders that we have for driver-partners and we will be notifying a small number of riders that their behaviour needs to improve or their access to the app could be removed – which is already done with drivers.”
Being a member of the Uber community means treating others the way they want to be treated. It’s a two-way street, riders rate drivers and drivers rate riders. Drivers are rated on a range of factors, did they help the rider in and out of the car, was the ride smooth and safely executed, did the driver treat the rider with respect and make the rider feel comfortable. Riders will now share accountability on their behaviour such as how did they treat the driver and their vehicle, did they push the driver to break the speed limit because they were running late, were they rude or abusive to the driver? Continue reading