Uber Cedes Russia to Yandex with $3.7B Merger Agreement

Re:Uber Cedes Russia to Yandex with $3.7B Merger Agreement by baybal2 on Thursday July 13, 2017 @08:00AM (#14760557)

You haven't seen their prices in T2 cities, it is like $1 per 5 to 6 kms. And they have the problem of "Uberists" - people who drive themselves around when Uber subsidizes rides. And they also have issue of botters who do the same, but at industrial scale (without actually driving themselves or anybody else of course)

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Re:Uber Cedes Russia to Yandex with $3.7B Merger Agreement by martinald on Thursday July 13, 2017 @08:43AM (#14760764)

So they have two phones, one for driver and one for customer, and they request rides and accept themselves? Clever.

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Re:Uber Cedes Russia to Yandex with $3.7B Merger Agreement by COMMENT___ on Thursday July 13, 2017 @02:24PM (#14763825)

How does the driver ensure that he will receive his own order? AFAIK, a driver can reject an order, but this action will badly affect his rating in Uber's system.

I think that the rating system helps at least partially to fix this exploit (if it actually is an exploit and not a fantasy).

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Re:Uber Cedes Russia to Yandex with $3.7B Merger Agreement by in_cahoots on Thursday July 13, 2017 @03:15PM (#14764271)

If you don't receive your own order, have the passenger phone cancel the request and try again. I doubt the utilization is high enough that turning on the driver app immediately accepts a random request.

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Re:Uber Cedes Russia to Yandex with $3.7B Merger Agreement by throwaway312338 on Thursday July 13, 2017 @09:13AM (#14760931)

Amusingly, that's comparable or slightly lower than what I'd have to pay for a Auto (tuk-tuk) ride here in India.

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