{"id":12346,"date":"2016-03-09T16:52:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T16:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/the_uber_tip_veterans_know_and_use.html"},"modified":"2022-10-14T18:31:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:31:29","slug":"the-uber-tip-veterans-know-and-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/the-uber-tip-veterans-know-and-use.html","title":{"rendered":"The Uber Tip Veterans Know and Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/uber.PNG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2016\/03\/uber-thumb-500x314-14970.png\" alt=\"uber.PNG\" width=\"500\" height=\"314\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On my Uber ride today the driver told me more and more of his customers at the airport are using a novel way to connect with him. The particular airport I flew out of didn&#8217;t allow Uber so the drivers just leave the property &#8211; waiting just outside the airport. In time, customers ping them directly, initiate a conversation and the driver comes and picks them up.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently this gets around the letter if not the spirit of the law.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping this post doesn&#8217;t get Uber or the drivers in trouble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my Uber ride today the driver told me more and more of his customers at the airport are using a novel way to connect with him. The particular airport I flew out of didn&#8217;t allow Uber so the drivers just leave the property &#8211; waiting just outside the airport. In time, customers ping them<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18565,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12346\/revisions\/18565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}