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Have you had experience with a driving forcing you to rate 5 stars? That seems incredibly crazy to me. That just throws the reasoning behind having a rating system out the window. If a driver has 5 stars merely because they uncomfortably made passengers rate them that way then the system is pointless.

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Yes, but it was three years ago [1]. The driver even gave me his empty McDonalds bag and asked me to throw it out for him. It was around the time when taxi drivers in my city all started becoming Uber drivers because taxi use had plummeted.

Uber quality has improved in my city a lot since then though, at least for me. And I've personally had far worse experiences from regular taxis in the past[2], so I'm still a fan of Uber.

[1] https://twitter.com/syneryder/statuses/756130867269873664

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20170816073734/https://www.msn.c...

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