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Why Uber and Lyft replaced surge pricing with upfront fares.

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By Alison Griswold
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The Industry This article is adapted from Oversharing, a newsletter about the sharing economy. You may have heard that Lyft  surge pricing. “Prime Time, also called ‘surge pricing’ by Uber, is where you basically don’t have enough driver supply, so you have to price it high so it can send more drivers out there and also sort of suppress demand,” Lyft CEO David Risher said on the company’s most recent earnings call. “That’s a bad form of price raising.
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Lyft wants out of bike share. It could doom Citi Bike, Capital Bikeshare, and the whole idea.

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By Alison Griswold
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Metropolis And why America’s bike-share systems might be in big trouble. This article is adapted from Oversharing, a newsletter about the sharing economy. Five years ago, Lyft bought itself some bikes. The deal came a few months after Uber acquired Jump Bikes, a startup maker of fire-engine-red e-bikes, as part of its shift toward being a multimodal transport platform. Lyft was forever trailing Uber—in rides, in sales, in cities, in market share—but not this time.
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San Francisco autonomous vehicles are being disabled by traffic cones ahead of a California Public Utilities Commission hearing on robotaxi expansion.

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By Alison Griswold
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This article is adapted from Oversharing, a newsletter about the sharing economy. Self-driving cars have met their match in the form of the humble traffic cone. If you’re on TikTok, you may have seen what I’m talking about: a viral video of San Francisco activists disabling autonomous Cruise and Waymo vehicles by placing bright orange traffic cones on their hoods. This content requires consent that you have not granted on Slate.
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