>>Contractor or not, if a driver agreed to drive for Uber, then they tacitly agreed to drive to any destination in their set range. I think that's fair.
This is a difference of how people view the platforms, I dont believe that is either fair or correct.
If I sign up for say a Freelancing site that offers a wide range of services I have not "tacitly agreed to" offer every service the site offers, I have not "tacitly agreed to" do the same thing that everyone else on the site offers
That is what uber is a Freelance Driver site, where a customer can select a Driver to perform a service (take me from a to b), just like when I take a Freelance programming job I have (and uber drivers should also have) the ability to set the terms of who they accept as clients, and where they want to go
That is the very nature of Freelance work.
A Taxi Service however would be different, as it would be if Uber was a "Car Service" that employs the drivers directly, and to be clear there are Car Services out there with company employed drivers they are $$$ but they exist
What is the length of this contract? Isn't a freelancer usually signing up for a well defined piece of work, not some arbitrary unknown bundle lasting an arbitrary amount of time?
Except you already know the rules of the contract, i.e. you get A but not B until you accept the contract. If you don't like the rule, you can opt out of the contract (in this case decline the ride).
This is a difference of how people view the platforms, I dont believe that is either fair or correct.
If I sign up for say a Freelancing site that offers a wide range of services I have not "tacitly agreed to" offer every service the site offers, I have not "tacitly agreed to" do the same thing that everyone else on the site offers
That is what uber is a Freelance Driver site, where a customer can select a Driver to perform a service (take me from a to b), just like when I take a Freelance programming job I have (and uber drivers should also have) the ability to set the terms of who they accept as clients, and where they want to go
That is the very nature of Freelance work.
A Taxi Service however would be different, as it would be if Uber was a "Car Service" that employs the drivers directly, and to be clear there are Car Services out there with company employed drivers they are $$$ but they exist