Re:Uber charges more if you have credits in your account
by ls612 on Sunday September 22, 2024 @08:40PM
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These claims provide precisely zero evidence that Uber ever used battery life as a pricing variable.
Re:Uber charges more if you have credits in your account
by andreareina on Sunday September 22, 2024 @09:29PM
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It's not evidence that they did, but it's evidence supporting the claim they would. This isn't a court of law, I'm allowed to use "they've done <shady shit> before" to inform my prior for "they're doing <different shady shit> now".
Re:Uber charges more if you have credits in your account
by thfuran on Sunday September 22, 2024 @08:47PM
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They're all about things way shadier then battery-level-based pricing.
Re:Uber charges more if you have credits in your account
by Terr_ on Sunday September 22, 2024 @08:47PM
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They are proof that Uber has already done worse things that involve similar capabilities and rewards. In other words, it is the kind of organization that is much more likely to have done battery-panic pricing, and that should affect how credible you think the accusation is.
Compare the vibe of: "So what if he was convicted of home-invasion robbery, that doesn't prove he ever mugged anybody in an alley!"
True in the most literal sense, yet also missing the point.
That article certainly doesn’t prove that was an urban legend. Uber built an entire system to serve fake data to government officials
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-f2971465-73d2-4932-...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/technology/uber-greyball-...
They were almost kicked out of the App Store for building a system to deceive Apple’s employees, too:
https://financialpost.com/technology/personal-tech/uber-was-...
Given the other ways they tried to intimidate journalists, anything like this which is conducted with the journalists’ own phones or near places they frequent is inadequate to say whether this actually happened — especially after it was going viral and all they’d have to do is flip the switch and lie about it until the attention dissipated.