Uber accused of Price Surging customers when phone battery is low
(www.zerohedge.com)
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Yea this sounds like utter bullshit. Their "study" consists of a single test with two phones and they drove up demand by requesting the same route twice.
Also, less than 6% is hardly a "significant" difference.
Would that happen? That sounds like a bug.
From Uber's response:
They requested the first ride which means demand went up and available drivers went down, which in turn affected the price of the second ride.
Oh for some reason I was assuming they cancelled the first one.
Who knows. Their article is really light on details. Even if they did I'd assume Uber would recognize increased activity in that area.
According to their article they did one test. That's it. There's nothing scientific about what they did. They were just fucking around for 5 minutes and thought that was good enough for a ragebait article.