Sadly, a lot of terrible cab drivers are moving over to Uber and Lyft now, and they&#x27;re bringing with them the bad attitudes that drove people away from cabs.<p>I&#x27;m a frequent Lyft rider. One of my worst experiences recently was with a guy who spoke extremely broken English and who could barely understand English either. This wouldn&#x27;t be so bad, but Apple Maps told him my house was someplace it wasn&#x27;t (I didn&#x27;t realize this was Apple Maps fucking up at the time; I&#x27;ve since begun texting drivers coming to my house telling them to not use Apple Maps), so I had to call him on the phone. It took a solid five minutes for him to understand that he&#x27;s in the wrong location and needs to drive a few more blocks to find me, and he refused to exit his nav and look where I dropped the pin (I always take extra care to put the pin in the right spot). It took so long because his English was word salad, and he didn&#x27;t understand basic words like &quot;keep driving forward&quot;. Then, when he got to my place, I went to sit in the front (which I always do, and Lyft encourages), and as soon as I opened the door, he <i>shouted</i> at me &quot;HEY, I&#x27;M UP HERE! GET IN BACK!&quot; (the most coherent thing he said to me the whole time). Fortunately, the ride wasn&#x27;t too far, so I just endured it and one-starred him when I got to my destination.<p>His rating was already at 4.5, which is below Lyft&#x27;s termination threshold; I probably should&#x27;ve cancelled as soon as I saw it. Hopefully the one star I gave him was enough to get him kicked off the platform.<p>I&#x27;ve also had other bad experiences from drivers who act like their job is to milk their passengers:<p>- One guy also demanded I ride in the back. When I got in, I saw why: the inside door panels and the backs of the front seats were <i>covered</i> in advertising for his private driver service. If I knew then that was against the TOS, I would&#x27;ve had a nice chat with Trust &amp; Safety.<p>- A driver took the wrong turn and got into an express toll lane on the freeway. Because of that, he missed the exit and we had to go on a long detour. He started ranting, saying &quot;I&#x27;m trying trying to run a business here but people keep hitting me with all these tolls!&quot;. Also, this was another guy who made me ride in the back. Yeah, there&#x27;s a pattern with these people. Because of that, making me ride in the back is now a guarantee you&#x27;ll never get more than three stars from me (3-star or less means you&#x27;re never matched with me again).<p>- A superstitious guy who refused to trust the voice nav... so to verify that the directions will indeed get us there, he started thumbing through the turn-by-turn directions with his face buried in the phone so he can&#x27;t see the road, driving 20mph on the service road of a freeway. After the third time I told him to trust the nav and that I&#x27;ve taken Lyft from this place to that place dozens of times before, and he refused, I had him cancel the ride and let me out. I complained to Lyft and got my money back (because he charged me for the ride).<p>- Drivers, plural, who report that they&#x27;ve arrived before they actually get here. Dude, I can see your car coming down the street in the distance. You&#x27;re not here yet.<p>- Driver who, on the way, pulled over at a gas station and texted me demanding I send him my destination address. When I told him I already entered it into the system, he cancelled the ride. My guess is he was going to cancel if the destination wasn&#x27;t far enough away or maybe he was trying to redline me (the system only shows destination addresses once the driver reports they&#x27;ve arrived). Nothing of value was lost.<p>- Drivers who insist on parking a couple of blocks from my office building and then demanding I walk to their car instead of them driving up to my building. I&#x27;m not even on a busy city street... I work in the burbs! Also, the path from my office building to their car is always unlit, and it mostly happens when it&#x27;s dark out. Sorry, but I&#x27;m a woman... I&#x27;m not walking through an unlit area at night to meet a driver who&#x27;s exhibiting sketchy behavior. I&#x27;ll just cancel and eat the fee. Bonus points to the guy who told me that I need to look at the Lyft map and walk to where his car is. He was laughing when he said it, too. Not my first bad experience with him: I cancelled on him once before after he was rude to me on the phone (and he has a very unique name I remembered). Since then, if I see his name come up, I immediately cancel. Guy is seriously creepy. He&#x27;s not the only one who does this: maybe 5% of drivers who pick me up from work pull this, and they&#x27;re all creepy guys who you can tell used to be cab drivers.<p>- One time I <i>did</i> walk the block or two over to the guy in a scenario like the above (one of the few times a driver pulled this when it was light out), he started ranting at me about how I kept him waiting for three minutes. When I said &quot;I was expecting you to arrive where I actually was&quot;, he told me to get out of his car. As I was getting out, I told him I was complaining about him to Lyft, he said &quot;I don&#x27;t care, I work for myself&quot;, and then I walked back to my office building. As I was about to request a new ride, he drives over to me and physically chases me into the building. Luckily, I got in the elevator before he could. My boss called the police, they made sure he left (according to the police, he wanted to make sure I wouldn&#x27;t do anything to hurt his reputation), and I then had a nice long chat with Trust &amp; Safety.<p>There&#x27;s a common thread here: people who think that they run private driver businesses and claim to just use Lyft as a tool are always the worst drivers.<p>Actually, 90% of drivers I deal with are perfectly pleasant. I just ride Lyft <i>a lot</i>, so I meet more drivers than the average person, and these experiences stick out in my mind.