The trick of Uber drivers to manipulate the application and increase rates

The transport company Uber is involved in a new scandal. But this time, there are no complaints from taxi drivers due to unfair competition or countries that do not allow their use. It is about a ride of drivers who use this app, and similar apps like Lyft, deceive the system and increase rates.

The method has been implemented in the United States at Washington Reagan Airport and increases the value of travel through insufficient supply.

The trick is very simple. Drivers must disable the travel app for a few minutes simultaneously. Like this, deceive the system that believes that there are no drivers available in the regionin this case in an airport. The weakness of the offer makes the price increase, since the platform responds to the clbadical logic of the market.

In this way, when the value seems high enough, they reactivate the program to make the trips up to this new value. The drivers do that, they say, because they do not pay much. "Uber does not pay us enough, what the company does is defraud all those people who stay at 35-40%," said one of the chain's drivers. ABC 7.

As they have explained, with this artificial manipulation of values, they raise the rates from 10 to 19 dollars. The key: they have information on the arrival time of the flights, so a few minutes before the pbadengers get off, they turn off the application.

As reported L & # 39; vanguardUber is defended against this controversial practice implemented by some of its drivers. "This behavior is neither generalized nor allowed on the Uber platform, and we have technical security measures to prevent this from happening, "they said of the company.