New Study. Ride Share Less Likely to Take Advantage of Passengers.4 Points from the Academics in Boston.

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MIT Researchers found that ride share drivers:

  • taxi drivers are more likely than Uber drivers to take advantage of a situation that offers opportunities to earn a higher fare
    • 7.4% deviation on average for airport pickups
  • when a taxi driver switched over to driving Uber, their behavior also changed to match the effect
  • Taxi drivers also tend to speed more than Uber drivers
  • Uber drivers do tend to be susceptible to detouring or driving more slowly to extend a metered airport trip when surge multipliers

 

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