Uber Flat Fares - Ride in San Francisco for only $2

so great!

This is called "Uber Plus". I purchased a pass last month and have been using all August (I'm in DC). The rides cost comes down to the same amount I spend on the metro. I've been using it in rush hour and I love it. It takes longer, but that's because of the traffic and increase in demand. I don't mind, I just read a book. Anything to avoid the metro and the crazy heat that we have in DC now. I was pretty excited to get the offer for another pass today!

Cool, let's do the math with uberX. There's this friend's place I go to every Saturday or Sunday all the way out in the Sunset: $20 ride. My ride between home and work is $8. Plus a couple of places in the Mission I go to in the weekends: ~$12. That in a week: 8*5 + 2*20 + 4*12, more or less = 128. (Assuming I go to work in bus in the mornings, come back in uberX in the afternoons) With flat fee, all this would be: $20 fee + 7*14 = $118. If I start using uberPool, all of this would be $20 + 2*14 = $48. It really makes more of a difference if you use uberPool. If you use uberX, you'd have to optimize with much longer rides. Some problems I see: - 1) The limit of rides. All these numbers are within a week, so basically if I wanted to switch to using uberPool continuously for everything, rather than MUNI, the package would last me about a week and a half. - 2) The temporary nature of the package. It's been pointed out by other users in this thread, but this is not scalable in time. This is a promo to get new users and Lyft users onboard, but I can't build habits around this because I know it won't last more than a few more months, if lucky.

The amount saved here is significant but not as great as it seems. 20 rides for $20 + $2/per ride = $3/ride. Most Uber Pool fares in the city are maybe $4, $5? I guess the best saving is over surge pricing?

In NYC JUNO entered the market in May- 35% cheaper than Uber, no surge pricing and it's way better!

Sounds like someone's potentially a bit scared about public perception after the whole failing in China thing and is now trying to buy market share in America to compensate. Is my opinion. As an average consumer, I would probably snap that up. As a driver, I would switch to Lyft instantly. As an investor, I'd be worried. If this was a public company, I'd be shorting it right now. As for me, I am relatively indifferent and probably not going to change my habits one way or another. I prefer Lyft.

I do not live in San Francisco anymore but that is where I was born and raised. If this is true then this is a great idea!

Cool campaign! Is this for existing members? I tried to sign in and it then brought me to create an account.

They're back! For October, $1 more expensive but still a pretty good deal...

Reposted from another Uber thread.. this seems even more relevant here >> My understanding is that when Uber offers a promotion like "All rides in Brooklyn $5 this weekend" that Uber just pays the drivers less. I assumed Uber would pay the drivers the same amount and subsidize the difference as Lyft does, but our driver last month told us that when Uber run promotions like that it simply pays drivers less -- so in effect, when Uber corporate decides to run a promotion it's extracting value from the drivers. Is this true? I went from feeling stoked about a cheap ride subsidized by VC cash to feeling shitty about my ride being cheap on the back of my already economically disadvantaged driver.