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agarjogger posted:Your personal insurance, no matter how swank, has every reason to deny your claim and cancel your policy if/when they find out you're using your car for rideshare. I know nothing at all of Uber's insurance. Look into this now. I. Another thread in at an uber driver said their liability coverage is 25k if you're available with no passengers and one million if you have a passenger. That's... Low. And you're right, your insurance won't cover you if you get into an accident while using your vehicle for an undeclared commercial purpose. I knew a girl in college who totalled her car delivering pizza. She was poo poo out of luck, it was not a good day for her,
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agarjogger posted:Let me get back to you when I manage to find someone on the drivers' forum who can actually produce evidence of their effective tax owed and paid. There are some deductions against depreciation available to people using their cars for work. I still believe that in two or three cities, mine included, driving forty hour weeks and being very savvy about your pickup pattern can lead to an after-everything take-home of near $20/hr.* *Minus the actuarial cost of the ridonkulous liability you're taking on.
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Does Uber cover damage to the car done by passengers? For example that oft cited instance of a passenger stabbing a seat with a pen, would Uber reimburse the driver for that?
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Cabbies are not regular dudes?
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agarjogger posted:I think I may be trolling, sometimes. Like I don't try to, but.. So you're saying that to he sustainable and competitive, transportation services need to have razor thin profit margins, and that may have an impact on customer services?  And the only way part timers would have better margins than full timers is if they were using another income source to subsidize their Uber stuff. It's as if the Uber model wasn't sustainable.
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Cicero posted:It'd be way cheaper to have everything automated by default and just dispatch a specialized repairperson to repair trucks in the case where they break down. That and preventative maintenance would definitely be cheaper than having a driver in each car. Think about it this way, if the only reason to have a driver is in case something break down... It'd be more logical to have one guy on stand by for every 20 cars or whatever, depending on your mean time between failure / utilization rate.
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Elephanthead posted:I distrust humans as much as robots so I am indifferent to the OS of my death cab. I can't wait for the day they merge AI and YOSPOS.
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Hingehead posted:The idea is that once my friend buys a car soon in a few month from now, I'd rent the car from him for $300, assuming I'd make $1000 a week, with a net loss of $300. I don't plan on doing this for the rest of my life, it is something I am thinking of doing just to give me a boost so I can head in the right financial direction again. My friend however wants to do this for the rest of his life as a permanent career. Is that thousand bucks a week before or after taxes?
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The $300 would be tax deductible, for what it's worth. $700 a week works out to $2800 a month, about $33,000 a year if we assume you'll miss some days. That's before fuel, insurance and whatnot.
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