Ugh, Uber wants you to bond with your fellow UberPOOL passengers

Feb02

by Sindy Cator on February 2, 2017 at 1:36 pm

UberPOOL fucking sucks. I try avoid taking them much like I try to avoid contracting the flu. But sometimes, much like contracting the flu, it’s unavoidable. There’s a lot to hate about UberPOOL, from the fact that your journey takes marginally longer (ugh), to the drunk couple sloppily making out behind you, like two dachshunds sharing an ice cream. But now Uber has worked out how to make the experience palpably worse: by telling you the interests you share in common with your seatmates, in the hope of striking a conversation. According to a patent unearthed by Business Insider, the controversial…