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.
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.
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.