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"Uber Technologies Inc. has for years employed a program that uses data from its ride-hailing app and other tools to evade government officials seeking to identify and block the service’s drivers, according to a person familiar with the matter."
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/uber-used-secret-tool-greyball-to-sidestep-authorities-2017-03-04
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When you hear something like this, you think they are smart and super advanced. Then you remember Uber's NY office people making thousands of fake requests (that were all cancelled minutes later). How did Lyft know? All the requests came from Uber office. LOL. That was hilarious.
You must be referring to this:
http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/11/technology/uber-fake-ride-requests-lyft/
"Uber employees have ordered and canceled more than 5,000 rides from rival Lyft since last October, according to new data provided by Lyft. The data was obtained at CNNMoney's request when reporting another story on the companies' competition."
I'm still waiting for one of the major networks to pick up a reality TV show on Uber...
According to the NYTimes article on this, Uber served up a fake version of the app, populated with ghost cars, to evade capture. This is the version that many city officials would see, so they technically could not hail cars. I remember reading complaints from people who would say that they saw many cars on their app but none would be available when they reqested a ride...it all makes sense now, they were greyballed.. lol
Boy it's really piling up on Uber...
it's a conspiracy. They've been saving it up.
Isn't this what we all use Waze for? To circumvent police cars with speed traps? Ahem.