Taxi drivers have the exact same rule. Taxi drivers aren’t allowed to reject rides once you’re inside.
> "It can’t be allowed otherwise what’s the point if drivers can pick and choose their rides?"
The point would be that the driver chooses to do work which is profitable to them and ignore work which is not. Isn't that what contractors would do with work contracts?
The fact that normal people drive other normal people around, and Uber the company extracts enough money from being the middleman in this to fund lobbying against the driver's interests, and does so, is so twisted.
The contractor working on my house has a general impression of the work he must do. But the specifics are far from ironed out.
They can elect to turn the app off whenever they want. When they want to drive then don’t have a choice. This is more flexible than taxi drivers who lease their taxi at the beginning of their shift so they start owing money to the taxi company. And they still can’t choose where to go if their customer tells them.
Having a system that is profitable only for the driver and a miserable experience for the customer is a terrible system. It won’t work. It has to be a fair compromise. Pay the driver a fair rate and have the customer choose where to go.
The issues with Uber is that they are trying to have it both ways. They want employees without paying for employees.