Seems inline with a lot of the other ways they have sneakily taken a greater share from drivers. They used to give drivers the phone and service for a refundab

Seems inline with a lot of the other ways they have sneakily taken a greater share from drivers. They used to give drivers the phone and service for a refundable deposit. Then they started charging $10 per week for use of the Uber phone, eventually they allowed drivers to BYOD and now they are using their data plans as a backup service. The so called "safe rides" fee is another example of Uber dishonesty. The percentage of the fare that goes to Uber w/o having to actually say they are changing the split has gone way up. That was set initially at $1 and it looks like it is up to around $1.50 now. This is in addition to the 20% cut Uber takes off the top of the actual fare.