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129 Surge pricing, the scourge of ridehailing, is evolving for the robotaxi era

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David Zipper @ The Verge · 04/19/2025 08:00 EDT

Surge pricing, the scourge of ridehailing, is evolving for the robotaxi era

It’s a familiar frustration for ridehail users: you open the Uber or Lyft app, enter your destination, and discover that your intended trip costs several times more than expected. The culprit is surge pricing, one of ridehail’s most important and controversial innovations. Customers grumble about higher fares, but Uber and Lyft executives have insisted that […]

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