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Why evil?

If I know it's FIFO - I come as early as I can.

This way I both struggle myself (as I never want to go there that early) and harm the others' comfort and convenience by occupying the place, making the queue longer. People also tend to conflict, fighting for their place in the queue (I had to witness and to participate in too many queues in my life, people become nasty there).

If I know it's random I come whenever I'm comfortable.

I would like the option to have my call sent to the highest rated driver.

Interesting... maybe I haven't taken enough Ubers to notice, but I generally can't tell the difference between a 4.9 driver and a 4.7 driver.

Would you pay more to guarantee getting the highest rated driver near you?

Now we're talking. I could get a list of prices vs ratings.

I haven't had a "bad" experience, but I've had some better than others.

Maybe one can charge a "thrill premium" for the "opportunity" to ride with a "sub 4.0" driver?

It worked for marketing yellow "champagne" diamonds. I joke that the next trend is "chocolate" and "dark chocolate" for selling brown and black-ish industrial diamonds on the retail market.

You mean like this? https://www.levian.com/ChocolateDiamond

> Would you pay more to guarantee getting the highest rated driver near you?

Part of Uber Comfort's value proposition is that only highly rated drivers are allowed to participate.

Oh my, that reminds me of that Black Mirror episode with the red-headed girl that only thought about her rating 24/7.

Edit: Season 3, Episode 1 "Nosedive"

If you think people fight in a FILO queue you wait till you see what happens when the one guy who’s been randomly waiting all day sees you randomly get randomly served first 5 times in a row.

you do understand that the only difference is a fixed waiting time vs. a randomized one.

Meaning you still wait the same amount of time on average, just have a bunch of "that was quick" and "wtf. I'm waiting for 4 hours" thrown in there. Not an improvement if you ask me.

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