Uber Flat Fares — Ride in San Francisco for only $2

@nicholassheriff completely agree with your pov here there is "us" as customers and "us" as society needs to keep in balance

@andreasklinger Yeah the only reason why I mentioned anything Andreas is because I saw 20 something comments wow their is a great discussion about what uber is doing right and the not so comfortable to talk about practices that need to change and be address that can only be changed if a discussion takes place that their even is an issue....anyone reading this would not have any idea that any of what I mentioned that can be verified, by googling and talking to your own driver is true. I like balance if just one person mentioned this I wouldn't have said anything but if Uber could have their way drivers literally would get paid $1 a year. Like what do you call 24 cents a mile? Ubers cut keeps swelling. Travis is a billionaire he's now worth $6.3 billion dollars oh wait he might have made $6.3 billion dollars driving for uber I guess.

@nicholassheriff yes true. problem is that on a bigger arc that this is true for any kind of company that doesnt need specially trained workers for their tasks. especially "on demand jobs". labor becoming a commodity is a huge risk. i dont think this is a special thing for uber - they are just more aggressive about it. As society we are kinda learning how to manage this - similar to how we did with normal employments (union, worker rights etc)

@nicholassheriff I think they're hoping they'll have a fleet of self-driving cars before they are held responsible to the drivers who make them ALL of their money. I wonder if it would be possible for there to be a mass exodus of Uber drivers to some other rideshare service. Maybe Lyft?

@andreasklinger I completely disagree...because they're is a great deal of choice and intention on so many basic levels coming from the people running things at corporate. I'm talking about a company that employs manipulative tactics to get people to quite minimum wage jobs, to work for them knowing that they will only make $3 an hour. I'm talking about a company that runs facebook ads saying you'll have a six figure paycheck like the one we pay our Uber corporate employees simply driving for us. A company that recently cut drivers pay in over 100 cities but travis is still a billionare, a company that has increased their take of drivers pie up to 130% while cutting the rates of drivers by 45%. you can't explain away that with socioeconomic and political economics with a company is affected by commoditization because especially with capitalism it really ties into can we treat people like slaves, not should we it's can we get away with it, you know what else is starting and has always been a bit commoditized education how much do teachers make, I know we're not drivers we can close our computer, leave product hunts app or website and this isn't an everyday issue, but this is a real issue for their community that as we know is everything to the uber experience. In America CEO's can make 300,000% more than their employees...that doesn't happen in Switzerland. This is what I'm addressing this greed really and inhuman nature when building not a special company, Uber isn't special, building any company doing absolutely anything, is it right what they are doing and can they do absolutely anything to offset this and make a change...yes their isn't a hard thing a complicated thing a really really tough thing to work on. They are continually working on ways to take more money away from drivers, their very real hard earned money, and that's someone's job at Uber. Someones job also at Uber is to work on exceptionally manipulative creatives for their invasive ads and if we say nothing they will think it's ok.....because at that point it is. Their is difference between a society and a private overvalued corporation that didn't even want it's employees to have rights ( even be called employees ) actually doing all that it can to literally undervalue it's workforce. That's all I see exceptional energy being used here to do just this that's what I'm bringing into question, meetings were held, emails were sent...things were approved people have jobs tied to all of this they get paid well, they can feed their families and drivers are getting screwed in a big way. some people aren't just jobless and homeless because of this now, they also are in debt. But we don't actually have to care about any of what I said, let me go hail an uber right now to go home. Let's demand answers use our influence to tweet, to put pressure on them, I'm a nobody uber isn't going to blink twice if I sneezed. But having a discussion like this out in the open will raise questions to onlookers about digging deeper and asking around. I'm not saying boycott uber tomorrow guys, I use uber not as much as I do and I always tip knowing this, but I don't even know if they get my tips have to ask my friend even about that now that I think about that...all I'm saying is do more with your voice...you're doing a lot with you voice when you say you're buying 30 packs. You probably got 100 other people to buy 30 packs, with that same breath you could also address issues and say I'm buying this but xyz....so people know they can't just dick people around and you'll be there as a consumer saying ha that's a ok. if it isn't ok speak up!

@_jacksmith You should add the map picture on the site to this too... it covers a significant amount of real-estate!

@tarungangwani done. you can also find here: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/...

@_jacksmith Not a coincidence that Lyft is openly looking for a buyer? Uber always does this when Lyft enters into any major funding round.

@itsnblackburn a key benefit is that you don't get affected by any surge pricing

@_jacksmith @itsnblackburn it's essentially a method to get people into the habit of using uber for job commute (the time with the worst surge pricing)

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@itsnblackburn @_jacksmith i agree but how this is structured it seems that they wanted to be save on every aspect - until end of month - maximum N rides - only in this area - maximum this distance/total cost (which makes sense on their scale)

@_jacksmith @itsnblackburn I see you are a startup advisor. Hm. What if one of your mentored startup guy would drive uber to get some cash... You don't want them to earn money when it's extremely busy = surging ? When they're not spending their holidays with the family... should not get paid any extra?

@viktor_nyics why will it make passengers more demanding?

@viktor_nyics Unfortunately, I think Uber's focus on the driver is only going to go down. Especially if you consider they are providing free retirement planning packages to their drivers. Hint hint...

@_jacksmith think about it. A simple minded person who gets angry about a 1.2 surge will say :I already paid for my ride, so I demand it rigt now and I want to play as costumer... -this is not "share economy" but rude habbit from the inhumane experience of cab services.

@ktal90 Retirement planning? Hm. If uber behaves as a tech company the focus is clear : drivers are the paying users. If they focus on passengers that makes them an other taxi firm and they will loose in a real competition. ( imagine if facebook would launch their transportation services...) hint hint...

@viktor_nyics I don't understand what you're talking about. With this the user doesn't pay surge pricing

@bracco Do you get 50% off 10 rides up to $10 off per ride every week? Uber has sent me this promotion for 5 weeks straight now.

Related note from the bottom of the page: "Your flat fare purchase does not guarantee the availability of trips"

@paultomkinson should work on the web. What browser are you using?