[anewcolor]

With regards to your third point, I just took an uber yesterday and the driver was using an uber-supplied navigation tool. maybe part of the existing app used for drivers? on my end, the app asked for a destination address and it was synced with the driver. the route was what i would expect.

the driver did complain however that they were forced to pay $10 for this ability and had no way to opt out.

this was in sf

[jaredsohn]

Yes, it uses the driver's app. At least the rider's app was updated a little over a week ago (August 18) to allow this. Presumably the driver's app was updated around the same time to integrate with it.

[calbear81]

This was what prompted my friend to get annoyed because the path seemed a bit out of the way. I would also appreciate the ability to choose optimize by time or distance.