{"id":805,"date":"2016-01-03T03:36:48","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T19:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/03\/no-one-was-happy-about-ubers-surge-pricing-on-new-years-eve\/"},"modified":"2016-01-03T03:36:48","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T19:36:48","slug":"no-one-was-happy-about-ubers-surge-pricing-on-new-years-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/03\/no-one-was-happy-about-ubers-surge-pricing-on-new-years-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"No one was happy about Uber's surge pricing on New Year's Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many Uber riders had more to worry about on New Year’s morning than a hangover \u2014 namely a bill for a late-night ride that might have totaled as much as hundreds of dollars.<\/p>\n

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See also: Don’t get caught out by Uber’s surge pricing this New Year’s Eve<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Complaining about Uber’s exorbitant surge pricing has become something of a New Year’s tradition, alongside champagne and fireworks. The holiday is always one of the ride-hailing service’s busiest nights of the year, and rates regularly skyrocket as high as six-to-eight-times normal prices in major cities<\/p>\n

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9.9x Uber surge here in Miami Beach right now… highest I’ve ever seen pic.twitter.com\/oX0ZxftfI7<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 1, 2016<\/a> Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Many Uber riders had more to worry about on New Year’s morning than a hangover \u2014 namely a bill for a late-night ride that might have totaled as much as hundreds of dollars. See also: Don’t get caught out by … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}