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5. Uber drivers organizing in chat groups to keep track of Lyft drivers in the area that have already been tapped, to prevent canceled rides. Just making sure

• deong 12y ago
  From the article, the organization was to ensure that they didn't hit up the same driver multiple times, giving away the scale of the game they were playing. Clearly they don't care about canceling rides, since they were literally just in the news for intentionally canceling rides for no reason other than to make Lyft and their drivers lose money.
  • jmckib 12y ago
    Where did you see anything about Uber canceling rides specifically as a tactic to make Lyft lose money? Everything I've seen has indicated that the rides were canceled because the Uber recruiters realized they were calling a Lyft driver that had already been spoken to.
• aetherson 12y ago
  No, that's not it. They're keeping track of Lyft drivers in the area so that they know who to cancel, not so that they can avoid canceling rides. And, look, if they could hail specific drivers that they'd never talked to before, I'm sure they would. But they can't. They don't control who Lyft matches them with. It sounds like they make some attempts to avoid just hailing the same driver over and over again, but sometimes they do hail the same guy over and over again, and in that case, they cancel.