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Originally Posted by David
I don't understand why their navigation is so bad. Can't they see me like I can see them? I'll see their car circling a block away but they're not getting any closer to me.
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Not at all. They license through Goole Maps, but with their own changes. A driver is just following the route on his phone, as you would when using Google Maps in real time. As you get close, a pop up says "rider has been notified." But it often says you have arrived when you're nowhere near the rider. I remember getting called to a Sushi place in a strip mall and the software took me into some HOA neighborhood and said I had arrived. Turns out I was only about 200' away, but on the other side of the wall between the subdivision and the strip mall, requiring a lot more driving and navigating to get to the restaurant. That's just how it goes about half the time. And then don't even get me started when it comes to apartment and condo complexes, gated communities, gate codes, private roads and on and on. I got called to a gated community that has a guard house. I happened to play in a band with a guy there, so the guard house folks probably knew my car. I just told them I was there for an Uber rider and they waved me in. Turns out the rider was at the golf course on the other side of the main road from the gated community. I was pretty far into the neighborhood, when I finally had to call the rider and ask where he was. As the crow flies he was about 500' from where I was and the map was saying I had arrived. To get to him required five more minutes of driving.