Ride-share drivers who tamper with surge pricing will face being deactivated after a report revealed that ride-share drivers at a Washington, D.C., airport coordinated to boost fares, Lyft said.
The statement came after a report from ABC affiliate WJLA alleging that Lyft and Uber drivers at Reagan National Airport organized to turn off their apps until the prices for rides surged enough to deem the fares worthwhile.
"Uber doesn’t pay us enough. What the company is doing is defrauding all these people by taking 35% to 40%," one driver, who did not want to identified, told WJLA. On camera, the other drivers agreed. The practice of manipulating surge pricing is not necessarily new, said Lior Zalmanson, a professor at the University of Haifa in Israel who researches the ride-sharing economy. His team studied ride-share drivers from 2016 to 2017.
"For years, our wages have been declining, resulting in many drivers being unable to afford health insurance or to feed their families. Just last week, drivers in Washington D.C. and around the world protested to demand a living wage from ride-share corporations," Drive United told ABC News in a statement.
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