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> There are plenty of consumer protections already in place to punish that kind of deception

And who's going to spot if the Uber app incorrectly calculates distances, skimming a couple bucks off each rider? This is why taxis have regulations for approved taximeters. That's an existing taxi regulation that clearly should also apply to Uber. Same as how scales used in trade have to be validated.




> And who's going to spot if the Uber app incorrectly calculates distances, skimming a couple bucks off each rider?

If this is being used by thousands of riders a day, I would wager it would be spotted fairly quickly. Is there good reason to imagine otherwise?


Because it actually happened quite often with taxis before the meter system?




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