It’s almost like we should regulate the industry to ensure that no one party in the deal is abusing the other. Taxis are regulated and can’t charge surge rates for a reason, when you are stuck somewhere and there are only a couple options to choose it isn’t a balanced market and therefore needs the state to ensure fairness
There’s nothing stopping you from calling a taxi instead of an Uber.
I’m sure there are some regulations that could help, but there’s also value to the free market. Uber is a luxury service so paying more when it is in high demand makes normal sense.
No one is being forced to use it and there are always other alternatives. Plus, in average, an Uber ride is cheaper than a taxi. Just because surge prices are high to meet demand doesn’t mean there’s a problem.
Yep. Went to Disneyland a year ago and the trip there was very affordable. The trip home was 3-4x higher since it was closing time.
I mean that’s how the market works isn’t it? It’s the best way to attract more drivers to those sort of locations.
That said public transport should be in place for situations like this so we don’t have 50 cars leaving but 1 bus instead…
It’s almost like we should regulate the industry to ensure that no one party in the deal is abusing the other. Taxis are regulated and can’t charge surge rates for a reason, when you are stuck somewhere and there are only a couple options to choose it isn’t a balanced market and therefore needs the state to ensure fairness
There’s nothing stopping you from calling a taxi instead of an Uber.
I’m sure there are some regulations that could help, but there’s also value to the free market. Uber is a luxury service so paying more when it is in high demand makes normal sense.
No one is being forced to use it and there are always other alternatives. Plus, in average, an Uber ride is cheaper than a taxi. Just because surge prices are high to meet demand doesn’t mean there’s a problem.
Seems like they didn’t have any problem getting drivers to take them there when the fares were lower either.
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