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Interesting, I hadn't heard that defense before. It seems like Uber's app-based hailing is the reason why poor neighborhoods are able to get serviced. Previous
by sebleon 9y ago
Interesting, I hadn't heard that defense before. It seems like Uber's app-based hailing is the reason why poor neighborhoods are able to get serviced.
Previously, no taxi driver would drive around in those areas - because of opportunity cost of higher fares in richer areas, and fears of getting robbed when there was tons of cash in the car.
- wavefunction 9y agoGypsy cabs exist for those reasons.
- wavefunction 9y agoGypsy cabs exist for those reasons.
- objclxt 9y ago> Previously, no taxi driver would drive around in those areas - because of opportunity cost of higher fares in richer areas Well, if Uber is using dynamic pricing to ensure fares from richer areas are more expensive than those from poorer ones won't that have the exact same effect?
- erikpukinskis 9y agoNo, because Uber publishes all of the ride requests, regardless of fare. As long as there is one driver willing to go there, the ride gets fulfilled. If you are leaving drivers to their own devices to try to find hot spots, they have no way to know someone ten blocks over needs a cab right now from a poorer area.