My mom is a hairdresser and their booking app has option for silent service as well.
thats super sad…I dont have a problem with someone not wanting chit chat but isnt better to just say “hey, today I am not in much mood to talk” or to show it and to make it happen without explicitly selecting it in an app…
its just very black mirror esque
Can i select “only talk to me if you have interesting things to say”?
I’ve had some enjoyable convos with drivers, but I’ve also been stuck in conversations about the weather or other banal topics.
It is currently only available to users of its luxury Uber Black services, costing the passenger extra.
Leave it to venture capital to try to make profits off people wanting their driver to shut up.
Uber has been rising their prices enough that now they are nearly at price parity with taxi cabs which, at least around where I live, are notorious for price gouging. At this point there is little reason pick Uber or Lyft.
Currently passengers can use the app to rate conversational skills, so a driver wishing to increase his score may deliberately try to make small talk.
That sounds bloody awful.
