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Old Sep 8, 2018, 4:48 pm
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stvr
 
Join Date: Mar 2014
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Uber does not work at SDU for short rides.

We landed at SDU at 9 PM on a Tuesday a couple weeks ago and could NOT convince an Uber to drive us to our restaurant reservation in Santa Teresa. We had 10-15 cancellations. Finally, we walked over on a scary freeway overpass to the French consulate, which seemed to open up a different pool of drivers, none of whom had been (I suspect) stuck in some virtual queue waiting for a long fare to Ipanema. I emailed the GM of Rio de Janeiro Uber about this, but of course I got no response. I know Uber is really really struggling on the corporate side right now. Still, there has to be a better way. Would a yellow taxi also have refused the ride to Santa Teresa? Uber was supposed to fix all these problems, but we are back to square one!
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