> And as soon as you have a 'usual' route, or you use the app a lot, you get charged more!! It's so disgusting. > I tried to book a trip to the airport for my

> And as soon as you have a 'usual' route, or you use the app a lot, you get charged more!! It's so disgusting. > I tried to book a trip to the airport for my inlaws using both my account and my wife's account. She rarely uses Uber, and hers showed a 10-15% cheaper rate. Do they think we're stupid? They targetted 'smart' people for using ride sharing as opposed to taxis, and now they try to play us. > Let's not even get started about dark UX patterns. It's hard to see peak rates now, and unless you get a bad gut feeling, you wouldn't know you're currently paying more than a cab rate. > ... > The same ride I used to pay $8 for is sometimes $25-32 now. Let's be honest, if anything better came along, I wouldn't look back. The world now is rediscovering the valid motivations for the old taxicab regulations that so many were claiming were holding "innovation" back. Uber's prices were so low mainly because they were using VC money to try bankrupt traditional taxi companies. Once the subsidies run out, Uber will probably at least as expensive as traditional cabs, if not more so, but with consumer-hostile pricing tricks that were once illegal.