After drive Uber over 20 weeks, I found Uber driver is high risk and low income job, below is the lists I found for the risk, but maybe not full lists, if the reader can find more risk, then I can lists it
- COVID-19:
Uber driver is close contact the people who is from the different place which is high risk to get the COVID-19 virus, in the small car space, the virus will very easy to transfer to each other.
- Dark driving:
In the Calgary, special at winter time, the day is very short time, from 7:30 am to 5:30 pm is day time, another time is night time, nigh time driving is 10 times more difficult than day time, it is hard to see the pedestrian and road condition, stop car, which very easy to hit some something to damage car or hurt people
- Sun raise and sun decrease
Sun raise and down decrease can bring very strong light to cause very difficult to see, very easy to cause accidents
- Slipper road—black icing
Calgary wintertime can decrease to -32 degree C, the black icing on the road which is most damager to the driver to cause the accident
- Winding
Winding is another weather factor to cause hard to control the car, if the speed is hight which very easy to cause the car to hit another car
- Snowstorm
Winter time snow storm will cause the big visibility issue for the Uber driver on the road and to cause the collision and damage the car, snow covered the road to make hard to see which easy to cross the center line to cause the car
- Heath impact
Uber driver site on the car for the long time, it is very easy to damage the driver health, when the at very busy time, drover is very hard to find place and time to go to washroom and which will cause the kidney system damage .
- Involve car accidents by another people
Some time the careless driver is not stop their car proper, which is very easy to hit the car from back site, even have insurance coverage, it is cause the time and money lost. I was hit two time form back side, one time which is serious damaged the back bumper.
- Insurance increase
Due to the long-time drive per day, the more chance to get car accidents, so the insure company will largely increase the car insurance and cause the Uber cost increase
- Speed tickets
So many hour travels on the road every day, the city installed over thousands hiding cameras, it is very easy to catch the driver due to so many speed change and stop red light , the speed tickets and potential points is risk for the driver to continuously driving
- Robbery
There is lot of news to demonstrate the Uber driver has high risk to be robbed on the road, some driver was robbed, some driver was shot to death, Uber driver has very high risk for this.
- Low rate
Some bad rider or drink rider to give the driver 1 star to cause the driver rate going down, possible to receive the warming email from Uber to close account due to the low rating
- No tips
It is very low tips from rider which to compare with another service job
- Hacker
Hacker was hiding in the different corner of the world; they try to hack the driver account and issue some incentive program access drivers account through email address and phone number and they hacked driver a lot of money to their account
- Drunk people
On night driving, a lot of chance to meet the drunk people, they not friendly activity in the car and potential make big noise in the car or another unforces behaviour to hurt the driver
- Road construction
Road construction anywhere in the summer, sometime in the winter to cause extra difficult driving and hazardous in the driving.
- Traffic jam
In the rush hours, the car moving slow and which was not compensate by Uber, then it cost the driver income decrease, sometime one trip take very long time but the fare increase.
- Windshield damage
To prevent the slippery, Calgary would to spread some small rocks on the road, but it is large risk to damage the car windshield in the winter time to cause extra repair cost.
Any another risk for the Uber driver, please let me know?