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Biggest Problem For Ride-Share Drivers In New Orleans

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Before our trip to New Orleans, it had been over a year since I’ve used either Uber or Lyft. At first, we weren’t traveling much and then we were taking road trips and had a car.

While we drove to New Orleans, we were staying outside the French Quarter in an Airbnb and sometimes it was more convenient to get a ride to dinner than worrying about finding a parking spot. As we were walking around one evening, I forgot the number of drunk people that stumble around Bourbon St. This was on a random Wednesday night in November and it must be a huge hassle for ride-share drivers to take all of the drunks home at the end of the night. How often does a driver have to clean up after a passenger had a “mishap” in the back of the car?

I mentioned this to my friend who lives in NO and he said that drunks making a mess in the back of the car isn’t the biggest problem. Drunks usually let the driver know to pull over and let them out of the car to take care of business. Nobody wants to pay the fee if you vomit in the car.

The bigger problem for drivers is passengers passing out. Since you enter your destination and pay for the ride ahead of time, the driver will take you there, passed out or not. If you’re going to a fancy hotel in the French Quarter, they’ll drop you off with the doorman. But what if you’re at a house or condo? What’s a driver to do?

I found a message board where drivers shared their methods to wake up passengers who passed out in the back seat:

This isn’t a problem isolated to New Orleans. I’m sure that it just happens there a little more often because getting drunk on Bourbon St. is one of the reasons why people travel to the city.

I guess the lesson is to try not to pass out in the back seat of an Uber or Lyft, because if you do and the driver can’t wake you up, there’s a chance you’ll wake up at the police station.

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