It Shouldn’t Happen To A Lyft Driver – Some Questions Answered
[image error]Welcome back to another installment of ‘It Shouldn’t Happen To A Lyft Driver’, as I collect my notes together I have realized not all my interesting adventures Lyft Driving really make for long stories. So, in this installment I am going to answer the Top 10 most popular questions I got during my time driving.
Your Top 10 Questions Answered In No Particular Order
1. Q: Why are you driving a Lyft here if you don’t know the area?
A: This is a direct reference on a Lyft Drivers reliance on GPS navigation. First off as a Lyft Driver you have very little control over your destination and where you will end up after dropping off a Pax (passenger). Because of this there is a good chance we don’t know the area we are picking you up in that well. This was me for the first month of running Lyft I honestly didn’t know where I was going, or where half the destinations were, or some of the road patterns.
I may have lived in the Baltimore area for over sixteen years, and I do know most of the main ways in and out, some short cuts and side roads, but I don’t know every road, house, bar, club, or where Billy lives etc… The GPS is often our only way of finding where you are at and how to get you were you want to go, with over a thousand streets and many more houses I don’t know where you live… Sorry… I ain’t got the knowledge, I barely can remember my kids names, let alone your house!
2. Q: Your GPS is taking you the long way, are you doing this to charge me more?
A: My normal answer to this is, it is? And I am sorry, I am going the quickest route my GPS has mapped out for me. I will happily take any direction pointers you want to make.
I am genuinely trying to get you there the quickest way I know (remember chances are I don’t know the area). It isn’t a grand conspiracy to take your money, and I will happily take direction from you if you feel we are going the wrong way. However, I have found your directions are often the long way around, so thank you for the extra dollar 
