Uber and Lyft Use Artificial Intelligence to Price Rides
24 points by gmays
by bell-cot
1 subcomments
Ignore the "AI" clickbait. What matters is that U&L are charging different customers very different prices for the same ride, and playing games with fake discounts. Which are both sleazy and, in places, illegal.
(Though if you aren't one of Today's 10K - ignoring laws and ethics have been SOP at U&L for how many years now?)
by kittikitti
1 subcomments
One of the ways I've found to game this system is to delete the app from my phone when I'm not using it. The real time systems have more trouble charging surge pricing if they don't all the data coming in from the background process. I compared this with someone else a few times.
It doesn't always work but I don't trust Uber or Lyft with my data at all.
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