GPS for Uber and Lyft: How to Pick the Best GPS Navigation

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GPS navigation. This is one of the most important things you have to know how to master as a rideshare driver. Now, we are not like taxi drivers in the UK who have to memorize entire cities.

That’s one of the beautiful things about rideshare. There’s a small barrier of entry you can just jump right in and start driving. All you need is GPS system and know how to use it well.

Even in a city you’re very unfamiliar with, you can do pretty well. Now, should you know your city? You absolutely should if you want to be an elite driver because there’s going to be things you’re going to be able to see and know that the GPS cannot mimic and cannot compete with.

So, you should learn your city but until [then], you can master GPS. And even if you know your city well, you still want to use your GPS. Now, GPS is integrated right into Uber and Lyft.

Now, Uber has its own GPS system that’s not ideal but Lyft doesn’t. And what you’ll do is you want to go to Account to set this up, go to Settings, Navigation and you can pick your favorite app that you want to use.

The moment you click “Go” after you picked up your passenger, it will open up and send in all the information which is really nice you don’t have to menu and log in and it’ll send all the Google Maps and Waze.

Now, I recommend Google Maps for the most in case. And here’s one of the biggest reasons why. When you’re driving in a place that you’re unfamiliar with especially when you have to go to a big juncture in the highway, Google Maps is super helpful because as you can see it will show you at the top middle there are five lanes here.

In the middle one is the one you want to take and you want to veer right to a little bit. I love that, super, super helpful because it’s showing you exactly which one to take while other ones will tell you just the name and will give you the top left which is not very helpful.

If you see the top left, it just shows you the street and “take a right”. And so this one is really, really helpful when you’re looking at different junctures that you’re not familiar [with].

Here’s another example. You got to go left, there’s four lanes. Really, really helpful because taking a wrong turn is one of the worst things you can do.

You can redeem it but it’s one of the worst things you can do and it really frustrates passengers. I would also say that if you were to use Waze, I would only use Waze if things are really busy and you need to deal with all the different changes of construction or if there’s [an] event going on.

Waze is going to be quicker to find that at. Now, what Waze is for, [for] those of you guys aren’t familiar. Waze is a social app. And so if you’re driving and you hit a road where there’s a road closure, you can actually mark down there’s a road closure.

And when you mark that road that’s a road closure, you’re able to then…it immediately goes up on to Waze and other people are able to see it and then it will reroute for them. So it’s really really nice thing.

Now Waze has been bought up by Google so it’s integrated into there but Waze is going to reroute a lot more and if you drive Waze, you’re contributing to a smarter route and it’s overall good for drivers.

Now, so I recommend Waze when things are crazy and you want to make sure you’re rerouting because Waze will reroute a lot quicker than Google will.

Even though Google knows some of the same information. In my experience, I think Google lags a little behind. So Waze has been my number one this summer because there’s been a lot of construction due to the Super Bowl.

Now, I’m going to answer one final common question and that’s, “Should you listen to passengers when they give you suggestions?” I would say yes and no.

So, for the most part always listen to your passenger. If they say, “Oh, turn here it’s a better turn.” Do it. If they say, “Oh, there’s been construction here. You actually want to take a left here.” Listen to them because they’re paying you. You’re serving them.

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