{"id":69780,"date":"2024-08-10T14:45:59","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T14:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/lyft-wants-to-combat-surge-pricing-by-making-you-pay-for-it-techcrunch-minute\/"},"modified":"2024-08-10T14:45:59","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T14:45:59","slug":"lyft-wants-to-combat-surge-pricing-by-making-you-pay-for-it-techcrunch-minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/lyft-wants-to-combat-surge-pricing-by-making-you-pay-for-it-techcrunch-minute\/","title":{"rendered":"Lyft wants to combat surge pricing \u2014 by making you pay for it | TechCrunch Minute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rideshare app Lyft is working on a new feature that could help eliminate the pain of surge pricing. With Price <!--more--> Lock, the company says you\u2019ll be able to pay a monthly fee in order to cap the price on a specific route at a specific time of day. The company is testing the feature across the US and won\u2019t roll out final pricing until next month, but the price should be less than $5 per month. <\/p>\n<p>This episode of the Techcrunch Minute is sponsored by Mammoth Growth.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe for more on YouTube: <a href=\"https:\/\/tcrn.ch\/youtube\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/tcrn.ch\/youtube<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow TechCrunch on Instagram: <a href=\"http:\/\/tcrn.ch\/instagram\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/tcrn.ch\/instagram<\/a><br \/>\nTikTok: <a href=\"https:\/\/tcrn.ch\/tiktok\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/tcrn.ch\/tiktok<\/a><br \/>\nX: <a href=\"https:\/\/tcrn.ch\/x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/tcrn.ch\/x<\/a><br \/>\nFacebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/tcrn.ch\/facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/tcrn.ch\/facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rideshare app Lyft is working on a new feature that could help eliminate the pain of surge pricing. With Price<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}