Slashdot Mirror
Uber Tests Cheaper Fares For Riders Who Are Willing To Wait Longer (qz.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Quartz: The ride-hailing company has started testing a feature that gives riders the option to trade a shorter wait for a cheaper fare. "Prices are lower at 17:00," Uber recently advised an Uber employee who requested a ride in Berkeley, California, and tweeted a screenshot of the feature. The image showed the Uber employee that he could request a ride "now" (4:56pm local time) for $10.18, or wait until 5pm and pay $8.15, about 25% less. "If you're OK leaving later, we'll request your ride at 17:00 for a lower price," Uber's app stated.
The option to wait longer in exchange for a cheaper ride is being tested among all Uber employees in San Francisco and Los Angeles, a company spokeswoman told Quartz in an email. "Affordability is a top reason riders choose shared rides, and we're internally experimenting with a way to save money in exchange for a later pickup," she said.
The option to wait longer in exchange for a cheaper ride is being tested among all Uber employees in San Francisco and Los Angeles, a company spokeswoman told Quartz in an email. "Affordability is a top reason riders choose shared rides, and we're internally experimenting with a way to save money in exchange for a later pickup," she said.
Is it actually cheaper later or is it more expensive now?
>> ride-hailing company
The word you are looking for is "taxi", as in "Uber is a taxi company"
When World Of Warcraft was in beta, after killing a certain number of monsters, your experience would per kill would be cut in half.
Everyone hated it.
So, they flipped it around. Instead, they cut all the experience values in half, but gave you double experience at the start of your gaming session. People loved it.
Same thing is going on here.
Check your premises.
WolkThare saves you even MORE money than UberD-LAID, or UberL8r or whatever they’re planning to call it. With WolkThare, you simply get picked up at your destination, then immediately dropped off, and since you are then already THARE, you neither get into, nor out OF, your WolkThare ride-share vehicle, because, since you are already where you are going, you don’t really NEED it to be thare at all! WolkThareAnbak offers you a FREE return trip if you went THARE using our revolutionary, game-changing and paradigm-disruptive app in the first place, and there’s NO WAITING AT ALL! When you’re ready to go, just WolkThare and start your journey immediately! No time like the present! Unlike UberNow versus UberL8r, our soon-to-be-award-winning-app does not require you to have an account, download anything, and it’s totally ad-free! No surge pricing, no tipping, no upselling of premium services, and your driver will never rape or murder you, plus you get free exercise, no JYM MMBRSHYP or app required! Unlike SOME app-based ride-sharing services, WE don’t charge you extra if our app detects your phone’s battery is low. It’s like Paleo for transportation! This is how your ancestors got around!!!
WolkThare is unlike Uber, Lyft, Riid, Flye, and Zwym in that WolkThare works even if your smartphone’s battery has died completely, if you left it at home, or even if you’ve never HAD a smartphone! Even if you’ve never seen one. Even if you are unaware smartphones even exist! Are you a tribesman in the Kalahari in the eleven hundreds, or an Inuit fisherman in the Aleutian Islands circa 552 BCE?!? Do you need to get from A to B? Just WolkThare!
Our reign has gone on long enough. Indeed. Summon the meteors.