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Pickup to drop-off route now displayed on map with ride request!
In response to driver feedback, in addition to displaying your rider’s drop off location in the ride request, the background map will now also display the route from the rider’s pickup location to their drop off location!
Favorited status now displayed in ride request!
In response to driver feedback, our engineering team has made it so that you can now see if the ride request you are receiving is coming from a rider who has you saved as one of their favorite drivers. If the request is from a rider that has favorited you, you will see a purple heart.
Meet Alex, a beloved DC driver with 670 positive reviews, who has been favorited by over 200 of his customers! Alex loves being an Empower customer and says that running his own business has given him, “the freedom to make enough money and still have enough time to work on my dreams.” Alex has been an Empower customer for almost 3 years and his advice to other drivers is to know where to be, when to be there, and to enjoy the conversations you have with customers.
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Whether you are a part-time or full-time driver, you can make more money driving for yourself using Empower compared to driving for Uber or Lyft. Check out our ‘Earnings Calculator’ to find out how much more you’ll earn!
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Empower in the press
- NoVa’s Empower wants to help drivers keep more of their profits (Technical.ly)
- Does Empower pose a mortal threat to Uber and Lyft? (Washington Examiner)
- Disrupting the Ride-Hail Industry: Empowering Drivers with Joshua Sear, Founder & CEO at Empower (The Life-Long Customer Podcast)
- McLean-based software company Empower looks to challenge Uber, Lyft (The Diamondback)
- Empower: The Disruptive Power of a Simple Idea (Roger Lanctot)
- Uber and Lyft Drivers’ Complaints Are a Startup Opportunity(Bloomberg)
- Disrupting the Rideshare Industry with Joshua Sear of Empower (Startup Savant Podcast)