Uber and Lyft shutdown in California averted as judge grants emergency stay

Re:Uber and Lyft shutdown in California averted as judge gra... by smsm42 on Thursday August 20, 2020 @05:06PM (#24228979)

So how that works in practice? One of the major advantages of Uber for me was fixed price upfront. So now I don't know the price until I order the ride? What if the driver sets an excessive price - can I decline the ride?

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Re:Uber and Lyft shutdown in California averted as judge gra... by grandmczeb on Thursday August 20, 2020 @05:58PM (#24229500)

See https://www.uber.com/blog/california/set-your-fares/

My understanding is that the rider is presented with a range of possible fares before searching (e.g. $9-10). If they are matched with a driver asking for a higher fare than that range they have the option to decline.

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Re:Uber and Lyft shutdown in California averted as judge gra... by coding123 on Thursday August 20, 2020 @08:59PM (#24230810)

So basically they will keep declining until they get the best price. It sounds like the proposed strategy is hogwash.

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Re:Uber and Lyft shutdown in California averted as judge gra... by grandmczeb on Thursday August 20, 2020 @09:28PM (#24231010)

Who will keep declining? Drivers set their prices up front (they don’t even get requests outside of their price) and riders auto accept if it’s in the range they were shown.

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Re:Uber and Lyft shutdown in California averted as judge gra... by admax88q on Thursday August 20, 2020 @09:16PM (#24230934)

Isn't that just supply and demand finding the market price for something?

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Re:Uber and Lyft shutdown in California averted as judge gra... by chairmanwow1 on Thursday August 20, 2020 @09:25PM (#24230989)

I will use Uber and Lyft less because of this. I don’t really want to go through the process of negotiating the rate. This is much more tedious.

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Re:Uber and Lyft shutdown in California averted as judge gra... by grandmczeb on Thursday August 20, 2020 @09:36PM (#24231060)

Do you live in CA? Because this has already been rolled out for a while. If you don’t, you don’t have to worry about it.

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Re:Uber and Lyft shutdown in California averted as judge gra... by jocker12 on Thursday August 20, 2020 @09:53PM (#24231159)

> you don’t have to worry about it.

...yet!

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Re:Uber and Lyft shutdown in California averted as judge gra... by mcguire on Friday August 21, 2020 @11:57AM (#24235937)

A market economy is indeed a pain.

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