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Uber always shows fake cars on the map. To prevent fraud.
by msoad 10y ago
Uber always shows fake cars on the map. To prevent fraud.
- cloudjacker 10y agoelaborate?
- bitJericho 10y agoto "prevent" fraud.
- msoad 10y agoIn some places people will hail the Uber driver and bypass the app altogether.
- mcintyre1994 10y agoUber have denied this (July 15) - do you have any evidence? http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-07/28/uber-cars-always-in-real-time http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-07/28/uber-cars-alw... > "It's real time analytics and the cars you see on the app are the cars driving around London," > "If we know it's going to be busy we can tell our drivers, but that doesn't affect when people open their app. There might be a ten second delay from their GPS, but it's not that you open up the app and there are three cars around you, and they're not there. That's definitely not correct." (emphasis mine)
- vacri 10y agoHere is an (apparent) uber drivers forum that has the drivers themselves talking about the app having ghost cars http://uberpeople.net/threads/ghost-cars.12091/ http://uberpeople.net/threads/ghost-cars.12091/