I’ve been noticing bad math in the Uber driver app lately.
There have been a few times it tells me my ETA is 12 minutes but I’m 16 miles away. Like I know it doesn’t think I’m gonna be doing these residential streets at 90 mph
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lukewarm_ozone@lemmy.today 1 week ago
What happened there? These are presumably calculated automatically, so does the second item has its mass listed as 2kg?
intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 week ago
highduc@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Afaik that’s deliberate to force the driver to get to the destination asap at all costs, but also to lie to the customer that their ride is just a few minutes away so there’s no need to cancel or look for alternatives.
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Second item is 1KG.
VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Price per 100g should not change.
lukewarm_ozone@lemmy.today 1 week ago
Even in the detailed info? If so that’s weird; probably something along the lines of “the seller messed up the weight, fixed it, but for some insane reason the site doesn’t recalculate the price”.
stevedice@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
My guess is that there’s some funky spaghetti code that’s using the promo, which is for 2 kg, as the weight of the product on the calculations.
IceFoxX@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Second is scam by 2 for 12$, 35c per 100g. = 3,50 per 1kg = 7 for 2kg… So 6.97 for 1 kg by 35ct per 100g. Wtf?
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
What happened? We live in corporate dictatorships where corporations can false advertise, price gouge, kick your dog, and fuck your wife… and your only recourse is a class action lawsuit where you make a few bucks after a decade.
lukewarm_ozone@lemmy.today 1 week ago
Damn, I didn’t know things were so bad there in Canada.
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The same dystopian enshittification is going on pretty much everywhere, you just aren’t aware of it yet.