Uber can track when the user has discharged the battery.
Mobile app Uber has learned to identify that your smartphone run out of battery.
This fact is a taxi service can turn into an additional source of profit. This was stated by the President of the economic research Uber cat Chan.
Uber saw when the smartphone battery is discharged, the user is more likely to order a more expensive taxi. Experts explain this by the fear that the battery will run down before they will be able to wait for cheap travel.
According to Chen, the customer is not Uber monitors the charge level for financial reasons. This information the program needs to know when to switch to economy mode. Moreover, Chen says that the company does not use this information for the issuance of an expensive cab ride with an empty battery. According to him, it’s just an interesting fact of human behavior.
