# Tales of Uber **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 25, 2019, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tales-of-uber/831474 "2019-03-25T01:24:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 155
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2021, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tales-of-uber/831474/155 "2021-12-05T07:55:06Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Uber algorithms can’t determine when an Uber is canceled? They don’t lower the count of requested cars and adjust rates accordingly? To be fair, I can only deduce from what I see on my end and not being a programmer I’m sure many of my deductions are wrong. The one thing I do know that Uber can’t control is whether _any specific driver_ is going to be working. The driver doesn’t even have to accept any one request- if I see your request to pick you up at the Spurs game I’m going to lol and not accept (or cancel) that shit. (Picking up at stadiums and airports just isn’t worth it, no matter the surge.) And so it is hard to build an algorithm which takes into account the drivers behavior - your ride could be more expensive not just because of demand, but because drivers keep refusing it. That’s the point I was trying to get across. Anyway, I wrote a book review in the form of one of my Uber ride stories. 1,700 words, 4 hours from initial conception to writing to posting, I don’t know if it is the best thing I ever wrote but, as you will see in the follow-up comments, it was met with great favor from the lovely lady referenced in the story… > [@Khadaji’s Whatcha Reading Thread - December 2021 edition](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-december-2021-edition/955243/23): > > Those of you who know of me probably have read my tales of [driving for Uber](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tales-of-uber/831474) – the time traveler, the Ubers of Shame, more. The following is a story told to me by one of my passengers, but instead of putting it in the Uber thread, I decided it fit more here. Note that this was a long ride so there may be parts where the story is redacted – the guy was long-winded and this is just a message board post, so my apologies upfront if you like boring descriptions of the arcana of American life as I cut … --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tales-of-uber/831474)._