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Sort of. Lots of Uber drivers already had a car, phone, and commute that they could make and extra $20 each day on if they drove an extra 15min out of their way. This isn’t too much but over a month would add up.

Of course now that COVID is a thing much of this has stopped.

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Is that really a realistic driver scenario or was that the nice story told by Uber? From my (limited) experience with Uber drivers, none of them only "drove an extra 15min out of their way" on their normal commute, nothing even close to it. It was a job like any other for them.

I do believe it, it was really bad traffic that day too from Renton to the udistrict. Dudes wife was a pharmacist (trained at UW), we talked about some random biotech stuff so I’m 99% sure he wasn’t lying.

This is not that common but some people do. Now if it is a Prius with tinted windows on the other hand that’s someone doing it as a job.

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