[vassy]

I'm using Uber quite often, but mostly to get home from central London. I live in zone 5, and I rarely find one around there.

Unfortunately, a lot of the drivers are very unskilled. I once almost crashed into a fence that the driver somehow didn't see. Another time, the GPS took the driver to a dead-end road, so I had to tell him to drive back and follow the road. When I mentioned that he has to turn right, he turned right straight away, on the wrong side of the road. I almost collided head-on with another car.

Maybe I've been unlucky, but these drivers need to be evaluated somehow. I was reading Shortlist the other day, and apparently it takes more than two years and around 20,000 miles on a scooter around London to pass the black cab driver test.

[k-mcgrady]

I've used Uber from Zone 1-3 for the last few weeks. Some good experiences but I've had drivers with broken GPS asking me for directions, drivers who ignored Ubers GPS and used their own - which took poorer routes, and a driver who failed to understand a clear diversion and drove the wrong way down a 1 way road. On the other hand I had issues with fares twice (driver took an awful 'shortcut' and another driver cancelled after 10 mins and then surge pricing was in effect) and both times Uber quickly provided a refund (within hours).