Uber’s insurance and operational fees can vary widely on similar trips

Uber charges riders a fee for insurance and operations — and it’s harder to predict than the price you’ll pay for the overall trip, a new study suggests.Len Sherman, an executive in residence and adjunct professor at Columbia Business School, analyzed 120 Uber Reserve trips completed by one driver between Ithaca, New York, and an airport in Syracuse over a two-year period.The trips were similar in several ways, Sherman said. Each was driven by the…

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10 things that are older than the United States of America

Happy birthday, America!This July Fourth, the USA is commemorating the 250th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, the day when the US formally broke away from England in 1776.A lot has happened in the last two centuries: inventions, wars, pandemics, space travel, to name a few. But…

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