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Old October 5th 15, 08:08 AM posted to uk.transport.london
Roland Perry Roland Perry is offline
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Default TfL Taxi Consultation to "kill" Uber

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mber.org, at 21:18:00 on Sun, 4 Oct 2015, Recliner
remarked:
I don't think they can. You can't pick a particular vehicle to book through
Uber, can you?

I thought you could (or the review thing would be a bit pointless).

https://help.uber.com/h/65f52320-43a...4-e9b7c7c36dae


If you are sat in the cab, the closest driver isn't very far away.


I doubt that the location is logged quite that accurately. And there would
be nothing to stop Uber's algorithms from randomly choosing from any of the
drivers within, say, 200m if there's a cluster of them.


Speculation. And if sing GPS it's quite likely they have your location
(and that of the cab) within about 20m.
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Roland Perry