Here's how to find out your Uber rating – but do you really want to know?

Did you talk too little? Or too much about sex? Knowing your rating is a small step to an obsession with the unknowable ways you have offended drivers

"If you can't handle me at my worst, you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best," Marilyn Monroe may have said. But then she lived in the world before Uber.

In the so-called sharing economy, we're all reduced to a star rating or a decimal point. Conscious of being under assessment - and the risk of our privileges being revoked - we are our best, most considerate selves when in the passenger seat of an Uber or packing up at the end of an Airbnb stay.