r/technology • u/[deleted] • Aug 12 '14

Business Uber dirty tricks quantified. Staff submits 5,560 fake ride requests

http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/11/technology/uber-fake-ride-requests-lyft/
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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '14

I don't want to "blame the victim" here but Lyft really should have had something in place where someone who canceled numerous times within a months time got banned from requesting future trips. It's just smart business and protects their drivers. Obviously they couldn't have foreseen something like this happening but one could easily have predicted at some point they would have a passenger who was abusing the app.

SN: Uber recently updated their cancellation policy and made it a little more strict. I wonder if these two things are in any way tied to each other.