Project Description for Uber
Explore how Uber optimizes driver selection and route planning to enhance ride accessibility during rainy conditions. Learn to implement features that calculate travel costs, select nearest drivers, suggest routes for ride pooling, and improve driver ranking for balanced assignments. This lesson develops problem-solving skills relevant for coding interviews by focusing on real-world scenarios in ride-hailing services.
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Introduction
Uber is the largest ride-hailing company in the world. They provide services like food and items delivery in addition to the primary service of passenger pick up and drop off. Their user base in terms of consumers and drivers is growing significantly. So, the engineering team at Uber keeps trying to find better ways to efficiently allocate nearby drivers to users.
The scenario and the problems discussed in this chapter discuss efficient driver allocation functionality and how we can improve it.
Statement
Imagine you are a developer on the Uber engineering team. The team is targeting some optimizations in driver allocation to rides as well as accessibility features for the client application. wants to ...