Lyft starts charging riders who keep drivers waiting - Digital Trends

Don’t beryllium precocious for your Lyft thrust oregon you’ll person to cough up immoderate other cash.

For Lyft drivers, and the institution itself, clip is money, and a caller regularisation means riders volition beryllium charged for being precocious and suggests the contented is simply a communal occurrence.

“Wait-time fees assistance support our level moving smoothly,” Lyft says successful a caller notice connected its website. “Try to beryllium connected clip and acceptable to conscionable your operator erstwhile they get astatine the pickup location.”

So, however precisely does the caller regularisation work?

The ridesharing institution says wait-time fees whitethorn beryllium charged astatine a per-minute complaint erstwhile your operator is kept waiting for much than 2 minutes astatine the postulation spot (five minutes for Lux Black and Lux Black XL).

Of course, if a Lyft operator arrives early, the timepiece doesn’t commencement ticking until aft the arranged pickup time.

The institution says that further wait-time charges whitethorn use to your travel depending connected however engaged it is. Also, if your thrust is canceled and you’re charged a cancellation fee, you won’t beryllium charged for immoderate hold clip involved.

There are nary wait-time fees for rides that are classified arsenic Lyft Shared, Lyft Access, Lyft Assisted, and Car Seat.

Lyft adds that riders with a disablement who request much clip to committee a conveyance tin taxable a waiver for wait-time fees if their disablement impacts their quality to committee a conveyance connected time.

Lyft doesn’t accidental however overmuch you’ll person to wage if you support your operator waiting, saying lone that “wait clip fees alteration by location.” However, Uber, which introduced wait-time fees successful 2016, charges astir 60 cents per minutes, truthful we tin expect that Lyft volition complaint astir the same.

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