A man poses holding a smartphone showing the App for ride-sharing cab service Uber in London on October 28, 2016. Uber has released a new feature called Spotlight to help drivers and riders connect.

It isn't aways clear how much to tip an Uber driver, but you can use the standard tipping benchmark as your guide. Anywhere from 15% to 20% may be ideal.

To make life a bit easier for both its passengers and its drivers, Uber has come out with some new tech tools in its app to help them find each other in busy urban streetscapes. For one thing ...

Uber drivers have been deactivated for "consistently poor ratings" while riders have "been given a temporary cooling off period or barred from using the app for inappropriate or unsafe behavior ...

So while drivers seem to overwhelmingly prefer longer rides, is there a limit to how far your Uber driver will take you? According to Uber's company policy, there isn't.

Uber rolled out a similar feature called 'View as driver' in 2020 to address concerns about information shared with Uber drivers.