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Drivers get booted off the Uber platform when their ratings go too low, so riders have plenty of power. https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-mysterious-way-uber-bans-d...

"For a Harvard student, the median grade is an A- and for an Uber driver, anything below a 4.7 out of 5 average rating from passengers spells trouble. Or, as one driver memorably puts it on Uber People, a popular web forum for rideshare drivers: “4.6 is [a] death zone.”"

As for finding out what Uber drivers actually think, you can google "uber driver forum." A unionization vote was called in one of those forums, and something like 96% of the drivers voted yes. Not a sign that they're happy with their lot, not at all.




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