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In further Uber news, http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/11/technology/uber-fake-ride-requests-lyft/index.html â Uber people have made and then cancelled 5000 Lyft rides in order to sabotage their competition. This is not the sort of behaviour that should be encouraged.
If that is true, uber are playing an awfully dirty game. Not cool.
I wonder how much if this really happened though.
"New data provided by Lyft, a competitor, shows that Uber employees have ordered and canceled more than 5,000 Lyft rides since last October. "
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8165857
Hacker News discussion.
That is crazy! Uber needs to get out in front of this pronto or theyâre going to be in for a world of hurt.
Yeesh. That there is one major screw up. Even bigger than most Canonical screw ups!
ducks
Whole entire Hacker News discussion is just âthis is why Uber is better than taxis! No it isnât!â. Hardly anyoneâs talking about whether this actual thing they did to sabotage a competitor is ok or not. Iâm not as sanguine as Bryan on this; I donât think itâll be a major PR bomb. People will just sort of shake their heads resignedly, say âah man, thatâs terrible, shouldnât do thatâ and then carry on ordering UberX cars if thatâs what they did anywayâŚ
Man. Thatâd be a bummer⌠but you might be right. I would expect this story to have more legs to it, but itâs possible this might just fade away.
Itâs the sort of thing that might be a major bomb but itâd require the media to decide to give a shit about it and bang on about it repeatedly until âUber are cheatersâ is embedded in peopleâs heads. I donât think thatâll happen; this is a nine-minute wonder about some random tech company that most people wonât ever use, and SF media (where this would be important) wonât push it hard because it implies that a Valley startup is doing a bad thing and no-one will say thatâŚ
To be honest, I thought it was well known that people from both Lyft and Uber have been pulling shenanigans like this for a while.
âjeremy
âŚand at this point itâs almost getting comical. http://www.businessinsider.com/10-uber-lyft-war-ads-2014-8
Uber is leaving Kansas now.
A heads up if you bought one of these devices as a result of Jonoâs review:
âjeremy