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Caught On Tape: Uber X's Latest Driver, Deadmau5 Taking Fares In His $300,000 Mclaren 650S

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/13/2014 21:38 -0400

While Uber faces lawsuits and blockades around the world, it appears Toronto just took the Taxi 2.0 experience to a whole new level. Deadmau5, the famous Canadian DJ, is the latest to become an Uber X driver, and as Jalopnik shows below, he turns up in his brand new Mclaren 650S to pick up a few fares...

in toronto? need a lift? I'm working for @uber tonight, downtown toronto. get lucky.

— deadmau5 (@deadmau5) September 11, 2014

BEHOLD! The meowclaren! @McLarenAuto @Sekanskin pic.twitter.com/QtYcAMQHJu

— deadmau5 (@deadmau5) September 9, 2014

Deadmau5 Drives for UberX

Picking up a fare...

And some images...

Thanks to my @Uber_TOR driver @deadmau5 for the awesome cab ride in Toronto tonight! The McLaren was puurrrrfect! :) pic.twitter.com/AD5Wpkx7SV

— Ciara Mc Donnell (@ciara_mc_d) September 11, 2014

.@deadmau5 as an @Uber X driver? Check!! #nbd pic.twitter.com/HPuGBs5F93

— Frederique Dame (@fffabulous) September 11, 2014

h/t Jalopnik

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Sun, 09/14/2014 - 00:40 | 5215432 Bumbu Sauce

Living in a house of 5000 meters?

GTF out.

Sun, 09/14/2014 - 00:58 | 5215445 Circle of DNA

I wonder, how many musicians are visiting this site daily? Ever since I discovered zero hedge I have no more time for the gearslutz...Anyhow, I liked what he did with Imogen Heap even though I don't give a crap about him or the entire DJ "culture".

Sun, 09/14/2014 - 01:12 | 5215458 Yen Cross

i can see..pop..pop usd...

slidin down the money tree...

pop...pop . no mo family... pop...pop

to expensive... too much time... no time to rhyme... pop...pop

I, see you and me, as armageddon family.

Sun, 09/14/2014 - 11:27 | 5216067 fuu

There are a few of us. At least in the early days we used to get together on irc and have zhedge radio parties. Marla was a great DJ. It was actually her influence that got me into making electronic music after years in guitar driven post grunge bands. Nothing more rewarding that I have found so far as laboring over music.

http://www.zerohedge.com/taxonomy/term/9096

Sun, 09/14/2014 - 01:21 | 5215464 old dude

mix master mike makin' beats wit ONE Vinyl start at 1:45

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIXDq-ppG9I

Sun, 09/14/2014 - 01:25 | 5215468 alexcojones

If you crossed Justin Beiber with Zuckerberg, you'd get DeadMouse?

Sun, 09/14/2014 - 10:24 | 5215889 SmackDaddy

with the build of an auschwitz survivor:

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2014/07/30/21843851.html

Sun, 09/14/2014 - 02:15 | 5215515 Schmuck Raker

Funny. One cool DJ can revive my faith in humanity.

Hope? I hope so.

Sun, 09/14/2014 - 03:17 | 5215540 trader1

Deadmau5 made perhaps one of the greatest musical masterpieces known to humanity (in a collab project w/ Kaskade)

I Remember

Feeling the past moving in
Letting a new day begin
Hold to the time that you know
You don't have to move on to let go

Add to the memory you keep
Remember when you fall asleep
Hold to the love that you know
You don't have to give up to let go

Remember turning on the night
And moving through the morning light
Remember how it was with you
Remember how you pulled me through

I remember, I remember
I remember, I remember
I remember, I remember
I remember, I remember

Sun, 09/14/2014 - 05:09 | 5215577 JB

I think "one of the greatest musical masterpieces known to humanity" might be stretching it a bit, but it's undoubtedly great music.

The 70s are vastly underrated. I was listening to Yvonne Elliman's "If I Can't Have You" last night. Great tune. Great voice. Was not previously aware that it was written by the Gibbs. Knock the Bee Gees all you want. Those dudes made good music.

And then you delve deeper and get into Donna Summer's MacArthur Park Suite, and holy shit! The transition between MacArthur Park and You're One of a Kind! Moroder is a fucking GENIUS. that guy nearly single-handedly invented the most popular music genre ON EARTH. And he did his best stuff two generations ago. Lest you think he's irrelevant now, not only did he pen the score to "Scarface," but he also wrote the score for Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. This guy has been relevant for a LONG time. His musical fingerprints are all over pop culture for forty years and counting.

And now I'm going to come full circle and say that Random Access Memories by Daft Punk (2013), which is basically a tribute to all the music that made the Robots what they are, and what made them THE inspiration of modern EDM, could not possibly exist without everything, and I mean everything that encompassed 1970s music.

Edit: I completely neglected to mention Nile Rodgers, the hit maker. Chic, David Bowie, Madonna, the Rolling Stones, Duran Duran, Diana Ross, the B-52s, Sugar Hill Gang, Sister Sledge, the list goes on and on and on. Yeah, he's all over the album too. He's the guy that discovered Stevie Ray Vaughn ffs. Dude is a legend, even if no one's ever heard of him.

I'll shut up now. It's maybe the best album (and it IS an album) in a generation, regardless of genre, and it's a tribute. Let that sink in.

Sun, 09/14/2014 - 08:57 | 5215711 plane jain

+1000

Love some 70s music and have enjoyed the return of its influence recently. Random Access Memories is where/how I heard about Giorgio Moroder.

I don't know if it is because of the age of the artists, or because people need happier music in hard times, but I like it.

Sun, 09/14/2014 - 03:17 | 5215543 Jjake

The best and most musical electronic music for the past four years has been a sub genera, liquid D'n'B. While not necsarily party anthems you'll be quick to find tracks on MrSuicideSheep (Youtube channel) to please even clasical music fans. D'n'B is on top because it's ridding humanity of 4:4 meter and replacing it with complex meters.

"You can keep your plan and you can keep your four part harmony" - jjake

Sun, 09/14/2014 - 04:48 | 5215582 TheFulishBastid

Deadmau5 Taking Fares In His $300,000 Mclaren 650S.

McLaren 650S

I feel like you are all missing the awesomeness of the idea of your taxi being a MCLAREN 650S.

http://youtu.be/OMB4TS6sCYo

Sun, 09/14/2014 - 10:20 | 5215880 GMadScientist

Is it easier to clean puke off the seats or something?

Sun, 09/14/2014 - 08:00 | 5215667 Smegley Wanxalot

DJs bore me personally, but to each his own. My own is below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su0Hvt6hTmA

Sun, 09/14/2014 - 08:25 | 5215688 Tekrunner

Does ZH do avertorials now, or is this just a free one?

Sun, 09/14/2014 - 08:48 | 5215704 eishund

his music sux. PVD trumps deadmice anytime.

Sun, 09/14/2014 - 09:56 | 5215837 GMadScientist

Richie Hawtin or Legion of Green Men FTW.

Sun, 09/14/2014 - 11:24 | 5216073 fuu

Infected Mushrooms > alles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6hL6fkJ1_k

Sun, 09/14/2014 - 09:05 | 5215718 Dewey Cheatum Howe

I'd like to see him do that down in Ferguson. That is one of the drawbacks to the UberX model. How many of these drivers are going to pick up a fare in a low rent shithole like East New York at 2am in the morning. UberX is a good idea but still a niche business model considering the clientele that would use it at this point. Using Deadmau5 to push the brand doesn't expand it out of that base.

I like the idea and what it stands for from a sponetaneous decentralized freedom point of view as a business service goes but it is way overvalued in many facets including it's market valuation at this point. A model like this should be just as easy to startup and finance using bitcoin for example than the stock market since you really don't need $1B to make this type of a business model work. You could just as easily have smaller independent nodes of Uber like services run locally that network as needed working around existing finance and payment structures without any one centralized ownership base which is how UberX is structured.

Sun, 09/14/2014 - 09:21 | 5215744 potato