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I am Oscar Alejandro.
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For many people, being a UBER or LYFT driver is a great financial help,
and for many others it is their main source of income, but... Why make a living as a taxi driver?
Because to start working there is no job interview,
applying and being accepted is super easy, not to mention that you are your own boss,
you can work the hours you want, wherever and whenever.
But is it true that people who work in this way earn a lot of money?
I will test each of these applications.
I already enrolled in UBER. I already enrolled in LYFT.
And I will compare in which of the two applications it is better to work.
According to experts, the best time to start work is in the morning,
so I will work two days, 8 hours each day.
From 7:00 am to 3:00 pm, to make a grand total of 8 hours each day. (16 hours total)
By doing this little experiment at the end of the video we can know
with which application you earn more money.
I will get in front of the steering wheel of my vehicle,
and you will join me to discover with which application you earn more money.
Come with me!
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Testing LYFT Day 1
Well, friends... It's 7:15 am...
Well, we're already working.
Our first LYFT ride.
So... Well, all we have to do is to follow the map and follow the application.
Good Morning!
-Good Morning! See you later. -Thank you.
$ 17.90.
Well, I already left my second passenger of the day...
Sorry about that…
Hi, good morning!
Bye.
We are at the University of Miami... And look, as you are seeing,
we are going to the Miami airport.
To earn a tip, let's see if I help her up the suitcase. There she comes!
How you doing today?
-Thank you so much. -Enjoy.
$ 7,89 Mmm! That is normal.
Hi, Gregory!
-Thank you. -Bye! Have a good one…
$ 3 and a little more.
40 minutes passed since the last race...
-Hi, good morning! -Good morning! How are you?
Good!
-OK. Have a nice day. Thanks! -Bye!
For this I have won $ 4,05.
Well, what I am going to do is an experiment, and you will accompany me.
We are going to go to the airport spot, which, as you can see, and I am showing you,
there are 120 drivers there,
but many people have told me that taking a race from the airport
is always very good because they are long distances.
The experiment is going to be to know how long it takes to wait,
when we already know that there are 120 drivers before you
so you can make a race.
Well, 15 minutes have passed, and I still have 78 drivers left.
I still had 27 people ahead of me before my turn came,
and it turns out that a notification of the application arrived...
I'm on my way to pick up Jocelyn and... Well, it took me
50 minutes to wait for a notification to arrive on the phone.
Well, but I'd rather have waited 50 minutes in the parking lot,
and not 50 minutes driving, spending gas.
-Hi! Jocelyn? -Hi!
Hi, how are you?
-Downtown Miami, right? -Yes.
$ 9.9. To have waited 50 minutes...
Well, I didn't have much luck... For example, having gone to a super far place
like Fort Lauderdale or something further still.
Harvey? Yes.
Carrying luggage, keeping luggage, no tip...
Nothing happens, $ 5.17.
-Pablo? -Yes.
Good day!
From Downtown to Design District, $ 4.06.
Well, of course, it's a close distance.
-Malachi? -Yeah!
Hi!
$ 2,47
-How you doing? -Good! How are you?
Great!
You too!
Well, $ 2.47 from Brickelt to 8th Street, which is right here.
-Yes, here it is, I already picked it up. -Have you picked it up?
-Yes, here I am with him. -OK.
Thank you.
-See you later. -Thank you.
With this last ride we finished the work of the afternoon today,
you can see that it is 2:57 pm, 2:58 pm.
Here I am tired, believe me. 8 hours of work, with 15 races, with 15 rides,
I made $ 92.35 dollars for almost 8 hours of work.
I did well? Did it go wrong?
This can only be verified in just a few moments
when I spend a whole day and start testing how the UBER application is.
Testing UBER Day 2
All right! Day 2 of our experiment.
Let's see how it goes, how long our first race comes out.
Ready, there we have our first passenger.
Let's go find him, his name is Axel.
-Yes. Hi Axel. Good morning! -Good morning.
-Axel, have a nice day. -The same to you...
See you later.
We leave Axel.
Yeah!
-How you doing? -Great! And you?
Good!
-Thanks, Oscar. -Enjoy, have a good day.
I'm going to check it out.
Randall, our second passenger of the day. A super long race.
Incredible but true.
After 45 minutes I have been notified of my third ride.
Carolyn is taking a while to get in the car,
and the application shows that she is already being charged for the waiting time.
-Hi! -How you doing?
Great!
Well, I'm leaving Carolyn and, for some reason,
the app is not telling me how much I have earned.
Processing trips... 1...
Earnings this week, zero... But I've already made three trips, nothing comes out...
We keep comparing.
Let's see how much time passes until I get the next ride.
But as you can see on the screen, we are still waiting,
I was connected all the time and the application has not notified me anything,
but something we can do to know what is happening
is to open the UBER User application...
There you see... As you see on the screen,
just above the blue dot, is the car that represents my vehicle,
but see that the whole area has 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6…
6 cars are around waiting to be notified of a ride,
and I feel that there are too many cars for so little demand.
So, for example, there must be a minimum of 6 people asking for UBER in the area
so that we all get a race.
But hey, we keep waiting, 9:23 am and I've only done 3 services.
I just discovered how to know the earnings. I have $ 20 dollars...
$ 23, $ 24 in just three and a half hours.
We will work until 3:00 pm.
Friends, I had to move from the South Miami area to Brickelt,
and during all this journey, in the 45 minutes it took me to get here nothing came out.
Obviously I had to come to Brickelt, which is the area where there is more traffic and more people
to get a ride, and just now I am being notified of my fourth ride.
I'm going to pick up Paul, I think I see him there.
-Paul? -Yeah!
Hi, Paul!
Have a good one… Bye!
The fourth ride in the morning...
Oh! I'm going to Doral.
-Oscar? -Yes. Saul?
-Yes. -Good morning, how are you?
-Are we going to the Dolphin Mall? -Please!
Okay.
See you later.
$ 14, $ 14 from Brickelt to here...
I don't know, I'm not liking this day much.
Well, it's been about an hour since I left the last passenger here at the Dolphin Mall,
and I decided to stay here because I heard that it is one of the points where
passengers can be picked up more easily, but I can't stand it anymore…
I'm going to see the UBER application to order, and I think there are...
Look, there are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7... 8 cars...
Well, including me, to wait for passengers and...
Well, nobody asks for a taxi. If there are many cars and nobody requests one,
obviously nobody will be able to have a ride.
I think I have to move from here because the hours are passing,
and I feel like I'm wasting my time.
Mariela? Hello!
$ 3 I guess. Let's see, let's check...
Yes, indeed, $ 2.90.
I have so far $ 44.35.
Well, as you are seeing, the next passenger is currently located
at the Florida International University.
Hey! My next ride is not so bad, we go to the Downtown of the city...
-Jenna? -Yes. How are you?
Great! And you?
-We are going to the port... -Yes.
Well, ready... At least it was worth waiting a bit in the Doral area
because this ride has brought me back to the Downtown of the city,
we are leaving the port of Miami.
$ 18 but to that we must deduct tolls since we go through the entire Dolphin Expressway...
Let's say I had $ 16 left of this race...
Kimberley? Yeah!
Hi, how are you?
Bye!
$ 4.04.
What do you think? Are we doing well or not?
Hi!
The Target, right?
Our ninth ride is short too.
Hey! These people go to the open of...
Or it must be because they go to Key Biscayne, according to what I see on the map.
Rej? How you doing?
Enjoy! Have a good one… Bye!
On this day I have already made 10 rides, if I am not mistaken.
Could it be that I do one more ride? We are about to finish.
Well, since I left these guys in Key Biscayne, about 15 minutes ago,
I've been driving around the area, and the app hasn't notified me anything, so…
Well, I think the most honest thing I can do is disconnect at this moment in front of you
because, you see, 2:57 on the clock.
I did not get another ride again, and if I see what the application says,
$ 44.35 and says that there are three rides remaining...
We will give the UBER application a chance to load all the information,
and so we can draw the conclusions about this video in which we will know
which is the best application to work for...
Whether UBER or LYFT.
Conclusions
Well, friends... It is time to analyze the results,
and I want to confess that the experiment has impressed me.
I swore that working at UBER was going to be much more profitable than LYFT,
but really, as you have realized, it turned out to be the opposite.
I want to remind you that on the first day, in 8 hours of work,
we start working from 7:00 am and finish at 3:00 pm, to add a total of 8 hours per day...
In LYFT we add $ 92,35…
Of course, we obviously spent half a tank of gas that day,
which is an equivalent of about $ 10 to $ 11,
so let's say I didn't earn $ 92.35 but actually got $ 82.35.
Now, we are going to analyze LYFT,
I thought it was an application that was going to have much less demand,
but it really was not, it is an application that has enough subscribers, enough users,
and the LYFT issue attracts my attention for something that I am going to show you,
for the issue of incentives and bonuses that, for example, there are some Power Zones,
as I am showing you, if you work during these hours,
the rides are going to have a cost, as you are seeing at the moment, of 10% more,
but there is also an entrance bonus of $ 750
if you complete a number of rides during the month.
There is also a $ 115 guarantee if you do at least 5 Rides,
and there are also $ 10 bonuses, there are $ 25, $ 100 and $ 150 bonuses,
I found that very interesting from LYFT, which UBER does not have.
In UBER there are no incentives at all,
other than the issue that when there is a lot of demand in an area...
Well, then the price of the race increases and you benefit from it.
I want to mention that on the second day, as I mentioned,
I made a total of $ 83.45, the same 8 hours of work.
So, I could say that in UBER the 8 hours of work had a profit of $ 73.45 and not $ 83.45.
It is worth mentioning that nobody tipped me, that seems not to be common here in Miami.
To conclude I can tell you that beyond the gas issue,
you have to remember the depreciation of the car,
and this is something that many people do not know,
because here in the United States for every additional mile spent the car is losing value,
when you want to sell it, If you worked a lot in UBER with it,
then the car is going to be worth $ 1,000, $ 2,000 or $ 3,000 less,
and that's horrible, because then you owe the bank money,
the car lost too much value from using it as a taxi.
Friends, this is the reality of things,
you draw your own conclusions.
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