Uber

J’étais en retard au boulot hier et j’avais besoin de quelque chose de vraiment rapide (2 autobus et 20 minutes d’attente entre les deux trajets, c’était non) pour m’y rendre. J’ai décidé d’essayer Über pour la première fois.
J’ai tellement aimé! Mon chauffeur (trop sympa pour la ligue) né connaissait pas vraiment le chemin, je comprends que ça peut être un élément anxiogèné pour une personne qui né connaît pas la ville et qui veut se rendre efficacement du point A au point B, mais bon, il y a les GPS ;)
C’est SI SIMPLE. On remplit un p’tit formulaire, un clic et c’est parti. On peut voir la durée approximative de l’attente, le nombre de chauffeurs près de nous, il est possible de calculer le prix approximatif d’une course, aussi… Quand on arrive à destination, on note le chauffeur sur l’app et on a un reçu par courriel. Tout est déjà payé, pas besoin de prévoir plein de monnaie sur soi.
J’ai tellement aimé ça que le soir même, je devais attendre un autobus 25 minutes avec un ami et j’ai proposé qu’on utilise Über… il a adoré. Beaucoup plus relax et adapté à mon rythme et mes goûts que les taxis (ou le transport en commun, quand je suis pressée). J’espère que le gouvernement saura légiférer le système au lieu de l’interdire parce que franchement, c’est MOLTO NICE! Yahoo!

I love it! When I first started using @Über it was only Taxi drivers and it was fine, except that most of the drivers were less familiar (or seemed less familiar) with the Westend of Montréal.
Recently, the added UberX which I have found to be absolutely awesome for shorter trips. All of the drivers we have met thus far have been extremely friendly, well-​trained because Über has a training session for them and they are required to follow a best practice guidelines.
This includes being helpful, maintaining a clean vehicle and offering cold water, to ask about the temperature and to ask about music/​radio preferences. And at this time, I have not encountered one driver who answered their cellphone or was on it when they picked me up!
I have only really used UberX for shorter rides, but the real test will come the next time we are heading to the airport, I’d love to see how that is handled!

Took Über more tahn 10 times and most of the drivers don’t want to use GPS guidance and got lost in the city! It took me 45 min from atwater to mile end with NO traffic at all! They don’t know how to drive! They are creepy and impolite! über quality standard is not the one in San Franciso, NY or Paris! WHY IS THAT???

I’ve only used Über once, after I called in for a cab. and asked for a fixed price to the airport. I was given a ridiculous number and a «maybe» along with it. Let’s not forget a crazy 1 hour wait because of «rush hour».
I installed UBER some time back and I told myself. why the hell not? I opened the app, provided my destination and was given a number that was significantly lower than I was quoted elsewhere. Intrigued, I hailed the cab and I was inside of it within 15 minutes! I confirmed my fare with the driver and I sat back.
I was comfortable in a spacious sedan, the driver was polite and friendly. I got to the airport without any issues. Once there my rate was respected and I was very impressed with the entire experience.
Did I mention you can track the taxi? Amazing.
If I regularly used a taxi, I’d use UBER more, for that single experience where I saved money and time? 5 stars.
YMMV

Yah I have to admit, I really appreciate this service and use it a lot, in a lot of cities and at weird hours.
I typically stick to Über Taxi but I have used UberX a bunch, especially in SF, without any issues.
It’s been buggy once or twice but here are the reasons why I’m a fan:
Once I took and Über with some friends, within 10 minutes of us getting out of the cab I got a message from them that something had been left in the car during our ride. Turns out my friend had lost her wallet and hadn’t even noticed yet. The driver circled around and brought it back to her immediately thanks to some help from the Über customer service. Completely painless.
I once checked my online bill and saw that something was screwy, the route and the cost just didn’t match up to what had happened. I replied to the receipt email, got an answer within minutes that they’d look into it, and had it refunded before the end of the day.
Often I get into an Über taxi and have conversations with the drivers about the service. In Montréal they seem to always say that Über riders are more chill then a regular fare, because they can follow on their GPS and trust the route taken.
They also all seem to deeply resent UberX, which makes sense when they have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to drive a legit cab and the UberX system circumvents that. But when I asked: if you were starting now, would you pay into the old system or drive with UberX? They mostly agree they would like to avoid paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for the right to drive cab. Maybe Über should set up a system to buy back these old debts from the best drivers?
Anyway — it’s a complicated question, but I’ll tell you this for sure: to be able to travel in strange cities or even in my own city, to click a button, see a driver coming to get me with a star rating and a photo, be able to watch the route he or she takes to get me where I need to go, then jump out and not worry about handling cash, and know my standard tip is being applied… it’s been a huge relief.

I have used Über in several cities and FINALLY we have Über here in Montréal, YAY, *happy dance* I take cabs a lot and at fairly strange hours. Being the scatterbrain that I am, I often forget if I have cash on me or not and by the time a taxi got to my place or I was almost at the airport, I realised that I had no cash on me and the driver did not accept cards, this sucks… especially at 4:30am! So thanks to Über, I was able to scan my credit card and be up and running in less than 3 minutes. I can call a car at any time and it comes with an estimate of how many minutes until it is at my door. The app lets you see where exactly the car is en route which is awesome, cause no one likes standing around out front in the howling wind unsure of when the car will be here as you don’t want to miss it.
You can call an Über with friends and split the costs between you all with one click and tips are included, so even if you are hammered and spilling out of the cab, you don’t have to worry: was I a cheap mofo and not tip the guy orrrr did I give that guy a 50 $?? Anyhow, Über makes life easier, expenses a breeze to pass along to your employer and it just makes you look cooler than everyone else, feels like you have your own chauffeur even though it’s just a regular taxi.