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Uber is fighting a proposed class-action lawsuit that says it secretly over charges riders and under pays drivers. In its defense, the ride-hailing service claims that nobody is being defrauded in its "upfront" rider fare pricing model.
The fares charged to riders don't have to match up with the fares paid to drivers, Uber said, because that's what a driver's "agreement" allows.
"Plaintiff's allegations are premised on the notion that, once Uber implemented Upfront Pricing for riders, it was required under the terms of the Agreement to change how the Fare was calculated for Drivers," Uber said (PDF) in a recent court filing seeking to have the class-action tossed. "This conclusion rests on a misinterpretation of the Agreement."
The suit claims that, when a rider uses Uber's app to hail a ride, the fare the app immediately shows the passenger is based on a slower and longer route compared to the one displayed to the driver. The rider pays the higher fee, and the driver's commission is paid from the cheaper, faster route, according to the lawsuit.
Uber claims the disparity between rider and driver fares "was hardly a secret."
"Drivers," Uber told a federal judge, "could have simply asked a User how much he or she paid for the trip to learn of any discrepancy."
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(Score: 0, Offtopic) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday September 20 2017, @04:00PM (4 children)
I was going to add those filters after breakfast along with the &#x versions. I think I'll have a nap first though.
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(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 20 2017, @04:24PM (1 child)
Are you one-at-a-timing it, Buzz, or did you get yourself a list of unicode-letters-that-look-like-other-letters?
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday September 20 2017, @06:25PM
I got several lists and globbed them all together about the middle of last week. I'm just trying to not get too far ahead of him so he doesn't feel bad, so I've only been putting them in one method (glyphs, decimal entities, hex entities, etc...) at a time.
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(Score: 2, Offtopic) by NewNic on Wednesday September 20 2017, @06:02PM (1 child)
Stop replying to them, because your replies make them visible with my preferences.
Or reply as an AC.
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(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @01:55AM
You assume buzzard is not aware of the fact.