Nope, you are at the mercy of Uber. If only I could do Comfort it would make this so much better.

I get comfort request randomly. I like when I get a long distance comfort ride. Other than that it’s whatever

My vehicle is aging out this year. But I don’t get a lot of comfort requests so I’m not too broken up about it.

You might try signing out of your account and then force stopping the app. That’s my go to any time the app is acting fucky for me. But if your market has comfort, then you should be able to toggle it on just like uberx, eats, and all the others.

Here in Dallas market we have the different toggle button for comfort just as xl and x. Mine didn't show up until I got my first comfort ride.

Depends on your market. When I had a Comfort-eligible vehicle, it was a separate option in the preferences. Some drivers have experienced being eligible for Comfort, but having no separate option.

Depends on the market. Washington state it falls uber the UberX and there is no specific Comfort selection in the drivers preference area.

Do not sign up for Comfort. You have to wait like 5 mins longer than normal when you arrive at pickup and you’ll just get even more entitled passengers. Not worth the very slight increase in pay.

Call Uber support and ask them to add comfort.

From my experience comfort is bs. There is less comfort than x so time to pickip longer and fares in upfront seem less for comfort than x. And on top of that they get to make requests like quiet preferred, or warm temperature.

I've only been doing this about a month, and only part time. With about 150 rides, only two of them have been comfort. Happy surprise when it happens, but I wouldn't make a concerted effort to get a car that qualifies for comfort.

I use comfort to drive from work to home and vice-versa so I can write off the miles without having to take any actual fares. I think I've declined maybe two, and I've been doing it for the better part of a year.

In my market at least if your vehicle qualifies for comfort it will send you comfort rides as long as you are signed in under uberX. There is no opt in function to it. They just send me whatever rides are available at the time.

They pay about 15 to 20% more than UberX rides.

Although I haven't done any in awhile because I stopped using my car that qualifies for comfort to drive Uber.

I get a lot of surged comfort rides from the airport. If I really, really want an airport ride, I’ll turn on comfort only and within a few minutes I’ll get one, as there are never any comforts in the queue.

It's about 2% of my fares. Totally immaterial

Typically they only pay a few extra bucks, if that. And they're not that frequent and about half the time the request is for a ridiculous pickup distance, like 7 miles to pickup for a 5 minute ride.

Also, since Uber decided Comfort is going to be on the first page of ride options, many groups of 5+ think that Comfort=XL and you'll pull up on a group of 5.

Is it worth it? I dunno, maybe, maybe not. If your vehicle doesn't qualify, though, I'd say don't sweat it.

It has been said long ago, is not worth it, fuber is using it to kill Select, most Comfort rides are at the end similar in cost as X where Select does have a better pay than Comfort.

In my market nothing older than 2016 qualifies for comfort.

Comfort is definitely worth it. I now drive exclusively Comfort and XL and my profits have gone up significantly. Comfort riders are typically nicer and more apt to tip a good amount; usually percentages, not the standard $1-$3.

In California 2015 is too old unless its luxury brand. I dont know your market.

Doesn't really change much since 99% of rides are UberX. However, I have found passengers who order Comfort are generally better-behaved. However, you really won't be able to just do Comfort rides, at least not if you want to make any money.

I’ve been using a Polestar 2 that qualifies for EV/Comfort for a month and half in Las Vegas. I’ve only completed about 8 trips and that’s because I decline them now. Here’s what I noticed:

• A driver will make $1-3 extra. That’s it.
• Riders expect luxury.
• Because they pay $3-5 more for a comfort ride, they expect the same treatment as in an Uber Black/Premier. They expect royalty.
• They expect a large vehicle. Most expect an SUV. Many are unhappy it’s a sedan.
• 6 out of the 8 rides I completed had 4 large passengers.
• They expect more amenities and more stops but that also goes for UberX riders that pay for a high surge ride.
• Riders don’t tip because they assume they shouldn’t have to because they paid $5 for a COMFORT.
• Riders are well behaved

Bottom line, unless it’s super dead or there’s high surge on Comfort, I never accept comfort. Especially at the airport where they expect a lot of cargo room. Out of the 8 competed trips, 1 tipped $2 and 1 tipped $3. That’s 2 out of 8 as opposed to 6 out of 8 on UberX. You will make more doing UberX trips. I understand 8 trips is not enough to make an entire judgement call on the Comfort demographic but for me it’s not worth the headache.

With that being said, keep in mind, If you have a true luxury vehicle or big SUV (highlander, MDX, RX, 5 series, Lexus ES etc) your riders might tip more and will be much happier than if you had a Tesla model 3 or any other regular EV. You could potentially make more. Hope that helps.

Even you hv a car which qualifies for Comfort doesn’t mean you will get all day comfort requests they merged X with Comfort so you don’t hv a choice means to pick which one you gonna work

As a rider, I have paid extra for uber comfort 2 times and both times the drivers showed up in old, wrecked cars. I won’t get tricked again. I figured they were broke so I didn’t leave them a bad rating but uber needs to police this better.

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Every 10-15 mins to be honest, sometimes shared rides add up

Usually Comfort can’t be more than 5-6 years old.

Your car may be too old to qualify

Look back at about a week ago in this sub, apparently they changed something and alot of people's cars don't qualify anymore.

They don't pay much better don't worry

As of January 15th 2025, 2017 vehicle's do not qualify for comfort

Not for regular uberx or xl. For uber premiere or black it might be needed. Market dependent.

What is uber comfort?

Asking them to cancel is wrong I would change it to I'm going to cancel this ride because it's not profitable for me.

Uber comfort is a way to shift people from premium rides to a sub par service while uber profits the difference... complete scam as usual.

Cool, make the customer feel bad. Good on you. Jerk.

Look, yeah the pay sucks but at least it's a little more in your pocket and you're not having to work any harder. Why would you fight something that makes you more money? I get it on principle, but like it or not, Uber is going to do what they want. You should absolutely be mad about that and I agree with it on principle, but it's still going to make you more money, even if it's not much. Weird hill to die on.

Don’t accept them if you don’t want to. Pretty damn simple

just decline the rides you don't want to take-- whatever the reason. This isn't the passengers fault - it is on Uber if anyone. If you only want a certain level of rides-- that is fine -- and Uber forcing you to have to deal with some lesser category is on them. I drive Select but if I only took that level, I'd go days between Uber rides. I sort of have to take UberX -- so if a Comfort ride came up-- I will take that but that is me. Your car, your service, your decision. I just disagree with giving the rider any grief for selecting this level. A quick decline and they get assigned elsewhere and the matter is done. Sending them a wall of text makes you look (and by association all Uber drivers) foolish imo.