“Done with Lyft, I guess.”

A Lyft driver reveals what they see on their aspect of the ride-share app earlier than deciding to select up a rider. However, some riders say they plan to boycott the service after realizing it reveals how typically they tip.

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Can Lyft drivers see how typically riders tip?

In a submit on r/FinishTipping, a consumer posts a screenshot of the motive force’s aspect of the Lyft app. At the underside, it notes that the rider suggestions “88% of rides” and is “usually ready at pick-up.”

According to Bloomberg, Lyft lately launched the characteristic, which may help drivers determine which riders they’ll decide up. However, the characteristic is at present being examined with a handful of drivers and isn’t accessible to everybody.

While the brand new characteristic remains to be rolling out, drivers utilizing apps like Uber and Lyft can see how a lot a rider added as a tip for particular person rides they settle for, in response to drivers on Reddit.

What do Lyft riders consider the characteristic?

Upon seeing the screenshot, the group of Redditors who’re already enraged by the pervasiveness of tipping tradition share their frustration.

“Tipping is optional, and Lyft has the audacity to treat it like it’s a fee with a minimum? That’s wild. Haven’t ridden with either ride share platform in a few years, but this [expletive] is insane to me,” one writes.

“My buddy last week was trying to order one, and it took sooo much longer than the last time that we thought he was just too drunk to order it. Maybe the drivers were denying him because his tip percent was too low,” one other says.

“Done with Lyft, I guess,” a 3rd remarks.

“WTH. Guess Lyft is trying hard to lose business,” snarks one other.

Some suspect that the characteristic will trigger rides to turn out to be costlier.

“Yeah, it will fail. Guess what happens when a driver doesn’t decide to accept your ride?? The algorithm keeps bouncing the ride until it finds a match. Lyft still needs our revenue- so 99% of the time it will increase the pay rate in the hopes of finding a driver match,” a commenter suggests.

“Looks like a way to squeeze extra money out of customers without having to ‘raise prices.’ Rider tips, much like tips in a restaurant, cut what the company has to pay the driver,” one other writes.

“Sounds like a good reason to not use Lyft,” one other laments.

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