This is the perfect example of development for the sake of development. The new user experience is terrible and provides the user with zero extra benefits.
I seriously can't see how a product manager signs off on these updates.
I seriously can't see how a product manager signs off on these updates.
In theory, by collecting the location data 5 minutes after, they can get a sense of this where and to whom this happens, and automatically correct for it. I don't know if it'll work, but if it does, it'll definitely be a benefit to me.
Unfortunately - based on their history - you're working for an utterly untrustworthy company, no matter the smiley face of nice they're trying to paint themselves nowadays.
This is not directed against you. I appreciate that you're hanging in here and participate in the discussion.
You can use AI to solve it, or you can give the user power to tell the driver that he/she is willing to work a little bit. A simple button may have been suffice
They're going to use this for monetization somehow. It's always about monetization. '
So what does following you do? Well it finds your actual final destination. Which restaurant. Which house. Which apartment. Which store. So that brings up two questions. First, how does this true final destination information give a better rider experience? Well it's not exactly clear, since the rider gave explicit destination information at the start of the transaction, or explicitly ended the ride when they became satisfied. So, what's in it for the driver? Well that's not clear at all either, since rider was already satisfied and the driver got paid.
So what doesn't it do for Uber? Well, now they have popularity of specific POIs. Which bar. Which restaurant. Which store. That's valuable information. You could use that to deduce rider profiles that include things such as taste preferences, and income level. Then you can use that information for differential pricing (e.g. "This dude has a bunch of disposable income, charge him an extra two bucks.")
I'm sure there's other things you can do with it, but my point is that it's not useful for navigation, at all, but does give economic information which could be squeezed, and attempts to squeeze all the money they can from essentially a car service on demand app, is Uber's MO.