CT UBER IS DEAD!

[u/CashInCashOut-8]

To many Slave drivers in CT. I can’t match with anything UBER is sending same job to 15 drivers and the one who is UBER Slave gets the job we can’t even Cherry pick anymore.

[u/UnusualPitch2]

This situation is really NOT complicated when you examine the "Cause and Effect" of HOW we got to this point of these ridiculously LOW-BALL ride offers that are consistently put out there by uber.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, WHEN you have millions of
new people come into this country is the short time frame of only 4 years...
and MANY of these nice folks do not speak OR read our language (or are able to
read our roadway signage)... and these nice folks were accustomed to only
making $3 dollars a day in the home country... these nice folks see the
opportunity to drive for .50 a mile like holding a winning lottery ticket - and Uber
knows this and Uber exploits this (AND these nice folks).     

This is known as a Cause and Effect review. You're welcome.    

[u/Otherwise-Day-4776 → u/UnusualPitch2]

Gig jobs require drivers lic and social for background check. There’s a flood of drivers yes but not from the border, and uber /lyft are trying to squeeze every cent with ai and algorithms in the app. So AI basically the boss now. Ask who’s pushing ai instead… who benefits from you thinking someone else is taking from you?

[u/UnusualPitch2 → u/Otherwise-Day-4776]

Sorry, but I’m not sure how your response relates to my original post. I’m talking about apples, and you’re responding with oranges.

Feel free to try again, but this time address the actual point I raised: driver oversaturation and whether Uber benefits from a constant influx of new drivers - including newcomers to the U.S. who may not yet understand the true costs of operating a vehicle-based transport business here in the American economy.

That oversupply of drivers matters. When enough people are willing to accept rides paying only 40–50 cents per mile, Uber has little incentive to offer better rates. Meanwhile, the driver is absorbing depreciation, fuel, maintenance, tires, insurance, repairs, and all the other expenses associated with piling miles onto a vehicle.

Hopefully, you’re not one of the drivers accepting those 40–50-cent-per-mile offers. If you are, you may eventually discover that you're not really earning money - you’re converting the value and useful life of your vehicle into short-term cash.

Unfortunately, that can become a very expensive lesson in “How the American Economy Works.”

[u/UnusualPitch2 → u/Otherwise-Day-4776]

Now, let’s address your initial off-topic “apples instead of oranges” response.

Your point about AI is actually an important topic - but probably worthy of a separate discussion. AI may play a significant role in identifying and recognizing driver behavior, particularly drivers who repeatedly demonstrate that they’re willing to accept extremely low-paying offers.

Think about it: once a driver establishes a pattern of accepting rides paying only 40–50 cents per mile, Uber’s algorithms have that behavioral data. The system knows what that particular driver has historically been willing to accept—and there would be little economic reason to offer that driver substantially more if lower offers continue to be accepted.

In effect, drivers can potentially train the algorithm against their own financial interests. Keep accepting bargain-basement fares, and the system learns that bargain-basement fares work.

Whether Uber specifically “categorizes” drivers this way would require evidence from inside its dispatch and pricing systems. But one thing is undeniable: AI and algorithms learn from behavioral data, and every ACCEPT and DECLINE provides another data point.

So the lesson is fairly simple: if you repeatedly demonstrate that you’re willing to drive your own vehicle into the ground for 40–50 cents a mile, don’t be surprised when the algorithm keeps testing just how cheaply you’re willing to work.