Multiple users Yandex.Cab noticed the potential dependence of the cost of the trip designated by the service, the model of smartphone that is being used to ordering a taxi. In particular, shared his observations of Svetlana Yavorskaya in your account in Facebook.
“Playing” with settings, Svetlana Yavorskaya noticed that the price for the trip is assigned below, if you select payment by cash and not card. In addition, choosing the same route and the same method of payment on your smartphone and the smartphone of a friend, she discovered that the price for the trip was not the same, the difference amounted to nearly 100.
The Representatives Of Yandex.Taxi in comments to a note Jaworski reported on experiments carried out with an automatic algorithm that takes into account factors such as frequency of use of the service, the number of drivers in the area and the presence of traffic jams. It is emphasized that the device model or payment method pricing algorithms are not affected.
This review Yavorskaya were skeptical, as it is often Yandex.Taxi, and the price was higher. Representatives Yandex.Taxi insist the comments in social networks and journalists that the experimental algorithm is based on these three factors, the traffic and availability of drivers in big cities like Moscow may change so often that will lead to different prices, even if the “two users stand side by side and almost at the same time make the trip on the same route.”