A journalist took an Uber from downtown Manhattan to the West Side, only to end up paying $51.69, including the driver’s tip, for the 2.95-mile trip | World News
carley: three masked suspects getting away with nearly $900,000 in merchandise, if you can believe it. police say two customers and several employees were inside the store at the time of the robbery but thankfully, no one was hurt. and the price of an uber ride even stunningth company s ceo. a journalist says he recently spent 52 bucks to travel just three miles in new york city when he told the company s ceo he responded oh my god, wow, the uber head blames the cost on surge pricing. uber costs have reportedly increased four times the rate of inflation from 2018 to 2022. that costs a lot of money to go a little bit of space, steve. over to you. steve: i read about this. and the ceo said, you know, it s 10:00 in the morning. why is it so hot and it s not raining. carley: it is new york city. a lot of traffic so that comes into play. steve: you never know. thank you, carley.
Uber s surge pricing has once again been put under the spotlight after CEO Dara Khosrowshahi was shocked at the exorbitant fare charged to a journalist. Khosrowshahi attributed surge pricing to inflation and increased costs of labour, but Forbes report contradicted this, revealing that Uber s prices in the US had risen at four times the rate of inflation from 2018 to 2022. Uber announced a record-breaking Q2 performance, but surge pricing has also resulted in the company s stock falling nearly 6%.