{"id":76032,"date":"2026-06-16T19:43:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T19:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/76032\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T19:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T19:43:13","slug":"same-ride-different-price-consumer-reports-investigation-discovers-how-uber-lyft-use-ai-to-set-what-you-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/76032\/","title":{"rendered":"Same ride, different price: Consumer Reports investigation discovers how Uber, Lyft use AI to set what you pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2 riders ordering same ride right next to each other could see different prices, CR study finds<\/p>\n<p>A new Consumer Reports investigation found that someone standing right next to you, requesting the same ride at the same time, could be shown a very different price\u2014and most riders would never know. (Consumer Reports)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Ever order an Uber or a Lyft and wonder how the app landed on your price?<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">A new Consumer Reports investigation found that someone standing right next to you, requesting the same ride at the same time, could be shown a very different price\u2014and most riders would never know.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Consumer Reports spent months testing Uber and Lyft prices nationwide. The investigation used riders who requested a trip from the same starting point to the same destination at almost the same time\u2014generally within a few minutes of one another and, in many cases, within the same minute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Watch The Morning Show at 6 a.m. on Wednesday to see the surprising results.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 kfUEDb copyright\">All Consumer Reports material Copyright 2026 Consumer Reports, Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Consumer Reports is a not-for-profit organization which accepts no advertising. It has no commercial relationship with any advertiser or sponsor on this site. For more information, visit consumer.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2 riders ordering same ride right next to each other could see different prices, CR study finds A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,25,2134,34929,20588,3842,3841,781,5411],"class_list":["post-76032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ai","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-consumer","tag-consumer-reports","tag-lyft","tag-money","tag-morning-show","tag-tech","tag-uber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}