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by DonHopkins 3480 days ago
Go with the flow: Institute a highly profitable vomit fee, and offer a VR headset for the passengers to wear during the ride, to increase the chances that they'll throw up.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2009/10/what_price_v...

"I'm a vomit-bucket-half-full sort of guy. I don't think these cabbies are trying to charge you for puking, I think they are offering you the premium service of vomiting in their taxi."

"America was built on the idea of premium services. This is how the wealthy are able to have so much more fun than everyone else. They can behave however they want as long as they have the money to cover the premiums! The $70 currently in my wallet entitles me to a good three blocks on Michigan Avenue and a nice half-digested deep dish pizza projectile vomited all over the headrest."

http://uberpeople.net/threads/throw-up.630/

"Yep Uber is pretty good here in Sydney as well. I had the outside of my car given the Jackson Pollock chunky rainbow look by a passenger. His friends thought it was a real laugh and afterwards I found they had also taken my giveaway chocolates as well. Sent the report in with photos and $95 receipt for the cleanup, and got $250 credited to my account the very next payment.

I have to say, in all my years of driving public vehicles Uber (with its hold on the rider's credit card detail) , have the best and quickest method to compensate drivers for these horrible incidents when they occur."