The Sleazy Side of Small City Ride Sharing
Reposted from my Medium page . Follow me @kcudd . My family and I travel quite a bit, which means we frequently find ourselves piled into a car with a ride share service of one kind or another. Lyft is our preferred provider but of course we have taken rides in Uber and tons of other local services in cities that restrict access to the major players. Image by carlos pereyra from Pixabay For the most part, ride share drivers care about their rider’s experience. They keep a clean car. They adjust the temperature to suit your comfort level. They engage in polite converstation, or not, depending on your preference. In bigger cities, we almost always have a great ride during which we feel safe and comfortable. That is not the case in the small city where we live. Many of the the drivers here don’t give a crap about rider experience. We have had dangerous, disgusting, awkward and horribly smelling rides in and around South Bend, Indiana, where we currently reside. So awful have