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Peeking Beneath the Hood of Uber
2015
Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Conference on Internet Measurement Conference - IMC '15
Recently, Uber has emerged as a leader in the "sharing economy". Uber is a "ride sharing" service that matches willing drivers with customers looking for rides. However, unlike other open marketplaces (e.g., AirBnB), Uber is a black-box: they do not provide data about supply or demand, and prices are set dynamically by an opaque "surge pricing" algorithm. The lack of transparency has led to concerns about whether Uber artificially manipulate prices, and whether dynamic prices are fair to
doi:10.1145/2815675.2815681
dblp:conf/imc/ChenMW15
fatcat:kljefl6ycvewlaa5mgu26pqme4