r/Lyft

I kept thinking about how in a moment like that, everything becomes weirdly slow.

If a rideshare suddenly feels off, most people are not going to calmly unlock their phone, open Messages, find the right person, type out what is happening, and then explain where they are. Even if it only takes a few seconds, it feels like too much when you are stressed.

So I built an iPhone app called TapSafety.

It is simple on purpose. You open it, hit one button, and it opens a prewritten iMessage to your emergency contacts with your exact location and a map link.

No account. No server. No background tracking.

I built it around rideshares, but also for first dates, walking to your car at night, or any situation where you want a fast way to alert someone you trust.

The app is built, and I would honestly love feedback from people here.

Does this sound useful, or does it feel like something you would probably never use? And if you were going to add one feature that would make something like this better for rideshares, what would it be?

PAX tell me about the last Uber driver and felt lucky to be alive. Driver used FSD in his Tesla and almost crashed 3x. Twice came within and inch of a guard rail. Another car stopped completely on fly doing 65 for no reason. His excuse was oh I didn't clean the cameras today. Like WTF? Who is that lazy? Thats a dam hazard. Too many dirt roads around here Thanks guy its nice to find out how many ppl hate the thought of a robotaxi!

I did use to use Lyft and Uber to get around on and off if not using the bus system. But these days I don't use either app but keep them on my phone for emergencies. But now my phone is telling me to delete apps I ain't using since I'm 99% storage space. So unsure on what to do.

This has happened to me a couple times within the past three weeks. The driver will be one or two minutes away, and it’ll switch to a new driver, so I’ll have to wait longer for them to arrive. One time it happened after waiting for 15 minutes, and the driver was two minutes away, then it switched to a new driver. I figured if they didn’t want me as a rider, they would have declined it initially. Is this a bug of some sort?

The only thing I can think of is that this has only happened when a male driver was picking me up, and then it switched to a driver who was a woman or nonbinary. I do have the option for women and nonbinary folk to be primary for picking me up, maybe it’s that? But why so last minute? Literally last minute.

I just got into a car crash last night while driving with a passenger on Lyft. The other driver was clearly at fault and under the influence. Point is, does anyone know how to file the claim under lyft or have gone through it and can help me please? Thank you. Also if there are any tips or advice i would really appreciate it as well

Just kinda wondering after a discussion on r/petpeeves about tipping. OP seemed to misunderstand a comment about people how no one tips on emergency calls, which OP took as 911 operators.

I used electricians, plumbers, locksmiths and flood remediation guys as examples of professions which deal with emergency calls and don't get tipped.

Although as residential contactor, I do get tips sometimes and I'm sure all the other trades I mentioned do as well, in fact I know both electricians and plumbers that have been tipped on emergency calls. Just about as often as I get tipped, which is maybe once or twice a year. Not so much lately cause everyone is broke 😬

Edit: flood and fire guys ain't getting shit though, I worked with a company that did that for a good bit. Ain't no one tipping you

Is anyone else experiencing this? it constantly shows the wrong location, multiple times it showed me the driver at destination, while there clearly were 0 cars there. Once the driver wasnt even parked at the right spot, he was at a different street, but more often than that, they haven't even arrived yet, like I have 2 minutes left to meet the driver and driver just arrives. i thought that maybe their algo just makes assumption that the driver is at the right apot just because they say they arrived, buf this happens even before they arrive. It kept showing me that the car is at the light waiting for a turn with 1 min arrival time, while that light switched multiple times, and after 7 minutes of waiting, I had to cancel. wtf lyft, get your sht together.

It's pretty obvious that there are Lyft employees in this sub flagging posts that are unfavorable to the company.

Is there a community where drivers can be honest without censorship?

So I’m blind and travel with a service dog. A real, trained service dog. I was going to The doctor. I needed to be there at 2 PM today. As soon as the driver got notified of the service animal, they cancelled. This happened twice. I was late to My appointment. Yes i reported it to Lyft and hopefully they will get investigated and removed from the platform. There has to be consequences for this fraudulent and discriminatory cancellations. I’m in the Baltimore area, and if the driver happens to be on here, you got what you deserve.

This morning, I woke up to a text saying the following: “Do not share this code with anyone. Lyft will never ask you for it. Your login code is XXXXXX.” (There were numbers, which I have redacted here for obvious reasons.) I contacted Lyft to check the security of my account, and they logged me out and asked that I log back on. As part of that procedure, they sent an authentication code to my cell. It came from the same phone number as the original text that I found suspicious. Has this happened to anyone here and should I be worried? Lyft said they don’t see any issues with my account, and the first text might have been “a slight glitch or error on our end”. Thanks for any input!!

I took a Lyft home from the airport and I left my hat in the Lyft. It was a Stetson that my wife bought me a few years ago for Christmas and I have extreme sentimental value with that hat. It was a $350 hat and in my sleepy delusional state I took it off and set it next to me and when I jumped out I left it. I tried contacting the driver but got no response, the Lyft response says I can follow up with local authorities but the police do not care about stuff like this where I live. Is there anything else I can do?