Uber needs drivers with 4-wheel drive pickup trucks.
Via Raw Story:
A journalist tried to use the popular and inexpensive Megabus to take a five-hour trip from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C. during the middle of the powerful nor’easter ripping through the East Coast — and instead was left to document being trapped without food or WiFi for hours on the side of the road.
“Reporting to you live from the @megabus from hell,” freelancer Paige Pfleger tweeted Friday afternoon. “We’ve been on this bus in traffic for 5 hours from Philly to DC. We’re only halfway through the trip and everyone gets an email that says ‘your trip has been canceled’ even though we’re on the bus.”
Passengers proceeded to “lose their sh*t” after receiving the bizarre email and their driver told them they’re turning around.
“People are asking to get let off in the middle of the highway,” Pfleger noted, though their requests fell on deaf ears.
Passengers had a multitude of reactions. One told the driver they were being held “hostage” while others tried to call rideshares or the company itself to get them to change routes. Another still commandeered the intercom to say they should all asked to be dropped at a casino, all while passengers found themselves becoming “hangry,” a colloquialism that denotes being hungry and angry simultaneously.