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Re:Uber Turns to Saudi Arabia for $3.5B Cash Infusion by mandeepj on Thursday June 02, 2016 @02:05AM (#11820656)
> it removes the incentive for the driver to dick around and do a TSP around the city to drive up the fare

With GPS, drivers can't do this.

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Re:Uber Turns to Saudi Arabia for $3.5B Cash Infusion by Arnt on Thursday June 02, 2016 @04:41AM (#11821130)
Ask the customer, "you want the shortest route, right?" and wait for yes. Now you have explicit permission to drive anything that's arguably the shortest route. So you pick one that passes the largest number of traffic lights and watch the meter tick as you wait in front of each traffic light.

Padding by 300% is a challenge, but a bit isn't.

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Re:Uber Turns to Saudi Arabia for $3.5B Cash Infusion by reledi on Thursday June 02, 2016 @04:10AM (#11821043)
They can and they do. The onus is on the passenger to report issues such as indirect routes.
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Re:Uber Turns to Saudi Arabia for $3.5B Cash Infusion by adrianN on Thursday June 02, 2016 @03:09AM (#11820857)
Time for a "taxi driver" firmware for Garmin devices? They're pretty open iirc.
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