{"id":15552,"date":"2017-08-03T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T13:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15552"},"modified":"2017-08-03T06:07:27","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T10:07:27","slug":"both-drivers-and-passengers-are-gaming-ubers-surge-pricing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/both-drivers-and-passengers-are-gaming-ubers-surge-pricing\/","title":{"rendered":"Both Drivers And Passengers Are Gaming Uber\u2019s Surge Pricing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/080317_1005_BothDrivers1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"274\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cara McGoogan wrote that there&#8217;s very little honour when it comes to Uber&#8217;s surge pricing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Uber drivers organize with each other on forums to co-ordinate signing off from the app at the same time to trigger surge pricing.<\/li>\n<li>The coordination is mostly seen in urban centers like New York or London.<\/li>\n<li>Meanwhile passengers have been found to do things like cross the street to enter an area without surge pricing.<\/li>\n<li>Or they&#8217;ll simply wait a couple minutes for a new, hopefully lower surge price to trigger.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/uber\/11964956\/Can-Ubers-surge-pricing-be-gamed.html\">The Telegraph<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cara McGoogan wrote that there&#8217;s very little honour when it comes to Uber&#8217;s surge pricing: Uber drivers organize with each other on forums to co-ordinate signing off from the app at the same time to trigger surge pricing. The coordination is mostly seen in urban centers like New York or London. Meanwhile passengers have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/080317_1005_BothDrivers1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15552"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15554,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15552\/revisions\/15554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}