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Re:Uber stops upfront ride pricing in response to California... by akerro on Saturday January 11, 2020 @06:02AM (#22019292)
>Well that sucks big time. One of the main reasons I used Uber was I know what it's going to cost me, upfront, no matter what, I just click

And I can't care less about this change, when estimate was for £5-£7 but actual price was £8.80. Estimate never worked for me, only once in several trips in last 2 years actual price was in range of the estimates.

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Re:Uber stops upfront ride pricing in response to California... by austhrow743 on Saturday January 11, 2020 @06:13AM (#22019322)
The change makes Uber work in California how it already worked in the UK. As in, the way youre complaining about.
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Re:Uber stops upfront ride pricing in response to California... by m_t on Saturday January 11, 2020 @06:19AM (#22019340)
Surely by now they can upgrade their estimate algorithm, given how many trips they can analyse.
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Re:Uber stops upfront ride pricing in response to California... by wutbrodo on Saturday January 11, 2020 @07:37AM (#22019566)
This isn't how Uber, or indeed any competently-written service, works. I'd be beyond shocked if there was some hard-coded algorithm for estimating fares that they do one-off manual upgrades on. It's far more likely that they have a statistical method for doing so, that's constantly doing the equivalent of the "upgrade" you're describing. Such systems have nonzero error.
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