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Title: The Uber app has crashed worldwide(Fri, 3pm)
Post by: watty on March 05, 2020, 05:45:44 pm

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/03/05/uber_down/ (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/03/05/uber_down/)

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Ride sharing service, Uber, and its culinary tentacle Uber Eats, have fallen down and there does not appear to be a helpful driver to pick them up.

The problem is global and, judging by the caterwauling on social media by those forced to stand in the rain, or prepare their own food, kicked off at around 3pm UK time.

oops


Ironically, Uber introduced a revolutionary new product a few weeks back in limited markets in the USA - using the telephone part of your phone to get a rideshare  ??? Maybe some clever person will invent a way to get a taxi that doesn't involve a phone?

Title: Re: The Uber app has crashed worldwide(Fri, 3pm)
Post by: silverbullet on March 05, 2020, 06:11:59 pm

https://youtu.be/7I5Az3gToXc

Title: Re: The Uber app has crashed worldwide(Fri, 3pm)
Post by: Rat Catcher on March 06, 2020, 08:51:04 pm

Amazing how reliant folk are on Uber... off the air for a few minutes and all hell breaks loose.

Title: Re: The Uber app has crashed worldwide(Fri, 3pm)
Post by: Shallowhal on March 06, 2020, 10:11:55 pm

Was there surge pricing? lol

Title: Re: The Uber app has crashed worldwide(Fri, 3pm)
Post by: Rat Catcher on March 07, 2020, 01:28:42 pm

There was on Free Now's Kapten_ app in London. How come they can charge STG£20 per mile on the mainland but we have to work for buttons regardless of demand?

Title: Re: The Uber app has crashed worldwide(Fri, 3pm)
Post by: Bob Shillin on March 07, 2020, 05:57:56 pm

Quote from: Rat Catcher on March 07, 2020, 01:28:42 pm

There was on Free Now's Kapten_ app in London. How come they can charge STG£20 per mile on the mainland but we have to work for buttons regardless of demand?

Think that the mainland would be/was Euraisia. Engerland is and island.