03 Aug Uber Drivers Have A Really Sneaky Way Of Increasing The Prices Of Rides

The rate in which technology is evolving, becoming more readily accessible and useful in our day-to-day lives is phenomenal.

Yet with the breakneck speed of technological advancement, we’re left wondering how we ever lived before these recent developments. It wasn’t that long ago that smartphones weren’t prolific, and we couldn’t check Google Maps or take photos with a few quick swipes.

While GPS is undoubtedly useful, a new development that is fresher in the mind is the advent of transportation networks such as Uber and Lyft. Despite the fact that these apps have been around for a few years now, I’ve only recently started using them, and now can’t imagine living without them. Being able to find your way home from anywhere in the city within such a short space of time is beginning to feel essential to a lot of city-dwellers’ way of life.

Yet it definitely has its downsides. The price of these lifts can suddenly spike in peak hours, and sometimes you can see that an Uber at 2am is pretty cheap in advance, but see an entirely different price once the time comes to actually book one. According to some recent academic research, this isn’t just a coincidence, as some drivers are exploiting the system to get more money for their time.

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