Both Drivers And Passengers Are Gaming Uber’s Surge Pricing
August 3, 2017 in Daily Bulletin
Cara McGoogan wrote that there’s very little honour when it comes to Uber’s surge pricing:
- Uber drivers organize with each other on forums to co-ordinate signing off from the app at the same time to trigger surge pricing.
- The coordination is mostly seen in urban centers like New York or London.
- Meanwhile passengers have been found to do things like cross the street to enter an area without surge pricing.
- Or they’ll simply wait a couple minutes for a new, hopefully lower surge price to trigger.
Read more on The Telegraph.
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