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5000 cancelled rides over a year does not mess up a system that reportedly has a millions of trips per year.
by badusername 12y ago
5000 cancelled rides over a year does not mess up a system that reportedly has a millions of trips per year.
- crazypyro 12y agoI don't think the argument here is over the scale or the percent of rides that were fake. The argument here was "Is Uber trying to shut down Lyft, through a variety of tactics?". I'd have to say yes, they are trying their best to block Lyft out of the business by limiting the key resource, drivers.
- mayanksinghal 12y ago> Is Uber trying to shut down Lyft, through a variety of tactics? But not through cancelled rides, right? I don't understand how Uber trying to recruit drivers is any different from any tech company trying to recruit me.
- mkadin 12y agoStraight up, this is a key point. Lyft is in 64 cities. 5500 canceled rides over a year is peanuts. That's 1 cancel per city per 3 or 4 days. I can't believe this is even a story.
- DanBC 12y agoIt's a story because it's an abusive tactic. It harms individual drivers to try to benefit a very wealthy company. It's a story because Uber thinks they need to do it. Does that then mean that Uber thinks they can't compete on quality of product and price of product?
- dnautics 12y agoThose are the rides that are cross-correlated with known recruiters. The actual figures could be more. I know for a time in February I would get tons of suspicious pings, and my friend who was a dual driver said, "oh, that's Uber fucking with you"