Data from 14,756 fares: Uber and Lyft have slashed driver pay in recent years by taking a larger portion of each fare, far more than they publicly report
In July, an Uber driver we'll call Dave—his name has been changed here to protect his identity—picked up a fare in a trendy neighborhood of a major U.S. metropolitan area.
On average, Uber is taking over 10% more from drivers than it says it does https://jalopnik.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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We should be at least as upset about this as we are about DoorDash and Amazon stealing delivery drivers' tips https://twitter.com/...
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This is a remarkable bit of journalism outlining just how opaque Uber and Lyft are in their role as middlemen in a giant human arbitrage scheme https://jalopnik.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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“8,926 fares...,” an Uber spokesman said, is “not a statistically representative sample, given Uber completes approximately 15 million trips per day around the world.” Well, that's not the logic of statistical theory. https://jalopnik.com/...