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Lyft and Uber Pull Out of Austin, but Deceptive Pricing Is Here to Stay
- supergeek133 10y agoWhat a hit piece. Lyft and Uber can't provide exact fare estimates. Maybe an accident hits and your driver has to take the long way, etc. Good grief. When I call a cab in MN, I don't get an exact fare estimate either. Even worse most don't have an app. The last cab I took (because lyft was 15 minutes away) was $15 more than my average Lyft fare from the airport to home, when I went to ask if he took credit card do you know what happened? He took out the manual imprint machine.. you know the one that goes chunk-chunk? Yeah. Oh and "Clicking on the property to make a booking revealed that it didn’t include a $25 “cleaning fee” and a $45 “service fee.” Both are mandatory. That brought the actual rate to about $105 per night." Hotels do this today. Using Lyft or Uber I get better pricing, cleaner cars, better drivers, and an app/credit card with the ability to rate my driver and them rate me.