http://mashable.com/2014/12/14/uber-sydney-surge-pricing/
An executive in the city's Central Business District (CBD) sent Mashable screenshots of the Uber app that showed the company was charging up to four-times the normal rate because "demand is off the charts." Uber CEO Travis Kalanick: "For each market, the state of emergency price will be set after excluding the 3 highest-priced, non-emergency days of the preceding 2 months," he said, adding that the policy "intends to strike the careful balance between the goal of transportation availability with community expectations of affordability during disasters." -- Dave Mandl dma...@panix.com da...@wfmu.org Web: http://dmandl.tumblr.com/ Twitter: @dmandl Instagram: dmandl # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
