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Optimizing earnings for cab drivers
- godelmachine 9y agoI think one of the most wonderful parts of this paper is that they assume the cabbie is working 8 hours a day, whereas I see almost every Uber/ Ola cabbie working for more than 12 hours daily.
- brudgers 9y agoOnce Uber starts paying out more to drivers, it will just change its dispatch algorithm to retain more. It's not happenstance that the naive approach pays drivers least and provides a higher level of service in the neighborhoods where rational economic action on the part of drivers would lead to lower service levels for Uber customers. It's by design based on real time access to data like that in the study and the ability to tune algorithms to maximize Uber's financial interests. The idea that drivers can out data process Uber is absurd and absurder still is the premise that Uber's dispatch algorithms are static. Though in fairness, it falls into a deep tradition of blaming the poor for being poor.