Ride-Hail and Giant Uber introduces cheap rides with a permanent route along busy corridors during working hours on weekdays in large American cities-a solution for a world that for most people is more expensive every day.
Starting from Wednesday, riders in Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, New York, Philadelphia and San Francisco will be able to save a 50% discount on the price of Uberx travel, booking the new function of “Share Route” Uber.
The company has announced participation in the route and other new functions and discounts designed to help customers save money on rides and deliveries at the annual Go-Get event. The goal is to attract and maintain a loyal customer base that still uses Uber application despite economic pressure.
According to Sachin Kansal, Uber product director, traveling to work will lead between stops in front of the set detention. He noticed that there will be dozens of routes in every starting city – just like between Williamsburg and Midtown in New York. Roads that are selected on the basis of extensive Uber data on popular travel patterns may have one or two additional stops to pick up other passengers. At the beginning, riders will have to share the route with a maximum of two other co -chairmen.
Riders can book a place anywhere from seven days to 10 minutes before the planned collection, and the application will provide them with trading guidelines to bring them from home to the corner, where they will be picked up.
Uber lies in the same basic technology that Uber uses to participate, and his joint rides are offered in which riders can get 15% to 30% discount on Uberx driving, connecting to others. Kansal told Techcrunch that Uber is doing millions of joint journeys every year and recently saw greater adhesion because the riders are looking for more ways of saving. Hence the participation in the route.
“Due to the size of our network, both on the consumer side and on the driver's side, as well as our basic fit and market technology, allows us to do something like this and put many people in the same car, while creating the performance and predictability of their access,” said Kansal.
Uber provides a future in which participation in the route can qualify for tax benefits before tax. However, as the spokesman noted, the company would have to find a way to match these trips to Uber XL vehicles. This is because only six -seater vehicles meet the qualification requirements.
Potential progress of participation in routes would include autonomous vehicles, especially in chaotic cities such as New York, in which no car companies decided to test.
Uber has partnerships with 18 AV companies, and during the delivery of earnings in the first quarter last week, the company announced that it increased to an annual rate of 1.5 million mobility and AV supplies in Uber Network.
One of the latest AV Uber partners is Volkswagen. They both plan to cooperate to add autonomous versions of ID VW. BUZZ AD ELECTRIC Vehicles for Uber application – especially for joint rides – starting with Los Angeles in 2026.
“You can see a natural extension in which we are also able to introduce the participation of the route to autonomous vehicles,” said Kansal. “(Travel's participation) has many advantages for an autonomous vehicle. This is a very well defined route, so pickups and screenshots are predictable.”
Other ways in which frequent Uber users can save
Each of Uber's events has a theme. Last year, it focused on ways to help people spend more time together. This year, with economic uncertainty due to the tariffs of President Trump, mass dismissals throughout the world of technology and artificial intelligence, which is coming to all our works, Uber focuses on savings of costs for riders. In this process, Uber hopes to create a predictable cash flow and viscosity that keep riders involved in Uber.
“Later, what we heard very loudly and clearly, people feel very uncertain, people feel overwhelmed, and people feel prices in many different areas of life, and the need and willingness to obtain more affordable options,” said Kansal. “So everything we announce is focused directly on how we make life more affordable for them.”
One of Uber's new functions is “rides” from which riders can use to “protect their price for an hour window each day on selected routes.” There are two ways to make it work. Either riders can pay $ 2.99 for blocking the price on a specific route, or they can pay in advance and buy a package paid in advance. They can buy five, 10, 15 or 20 rides for “even deeper discount”.
The price lock offer will be available to riders in Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Las Vegas, Miami, Nashville, Orlando, Phoenix, San Francisco and Washington from Wednesday, with the rest of the USA and Brazil. In autumn, price lock and prepayed passes will also be available to teen accounts.
On the Uber Eats Uber side, he goes deeper into cooperation with Opestable and introduces a function called Dine Out, which allows clients in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Great Britain, Ireland and Australia via Opensable in the Uber application. When they book (in the Uber application or in the Otentable application), they will receive a discount on Uber ride to the restaurant. In addition, members of Opentable will soon be able to use their points in Eats Uber and Uber – just like Uber's partnership with Delta Air ropes.
These types of offers can offer savings for riders, especially at times of peak demand, in which growth valuations apply. But they are probably more beneficial for people who often use Uber service. Pre -paid packages often seem cheaper because of the discounts from above, but riders can also overestimate how much they use them.
Uber price strategy is also not transparent, and some are Reports I suggested that riders with preposed loans or gift cards receive higher tariff quotes compared to people paying for a ride. (Anecdotally whenever I switch my payment method from my personal card to my business card, the driving price increases by a few dollars.)
Uber spokesman told Techcrunch that the price lock function is based on the historical prices of this journey, and the pre -paid pass protects against price jumps and adds discounts based also on historical prices.
