<story><title>New Yorkers Can Now Get Unlimited UberPool in Manhattan for $200</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/briansolomon/2016/09/27/unlimited-uber-rides-new-york-100-dollars-subscription-october/#4be2af4b570a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ixtli</author><text>Before you get all excited about this, it&amp;#x27;s ONLY UberPOOL and your destination must start and end in Manhattan. So if you use this to commute for two weeks you&amp;#x27;re paying 10 (edit: obviously 100&amp;#x2F;20 = 5, it&amp;#x27;s early. leave me alone) dollars flat for a cab ride that you share and will take longer than normal because of the overhead of splitting the ride.&lt;p&gt;There are certainly some people for whom this will be cost effective, especially if they spend most of their day traveling to places they can be 5-10 minutes +&amp;#x2F;- their target arrival. However for people like me who live on the east side of Manhattan and commute to FiDi it doesn&amp;#x27;t actually save a worthwhile amount of money.&lt;p&gt;Also forbes is incredibly spammy so here&amp;#x27;s the link directly to the promo: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.uber.com&amp;#x2F;info&amp;#x2F;plus&amp;#x2F;newyork&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.uber.com&amp;#x2F;info&amp;#x2F;plus&amp;#x2F;newyork&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kdamken</author><text>Also, uberpool is terrible. Can easily make a 20 minute ride 60 minutes depending on how many other fares they pick up&amp;#x2F;drop off on the way.&lt;p&gt;I took one into the city once to try it out. Normally a 20 minute drive, we stopped and picked up 2 other fares. They both got dropped off before me (which is insane), and it ended up taking over an hour.&lt;p&gt;The worst part? The drive told me that if we dropped off one and another came up, he&amp;#x27;d have to pick that up too before dropping me off.</text></comment>
<story><title>New Yorkers Can Now Get Unlimited UberPool in Manhattan for $200</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/briansolomon/2016/09/27/unlimited-uber-rides-new-york-100-dollars-subscription-october/#4be2af4b570a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ixtli</author><text>Before you get all excited about this, it&amp;#x27;s ONLY UberPOOL and your destination must start and end in Manhattan. So if you use this to commute for two weeks you&amp;#x27;re paying 10 (edit: obviously 100&amp;#x2F;20 = 5, it&amp;#x27;s early. leave me alone) dollars flat for a cab ride that you share and will take longer than normal because of the overhead of splitting the ride.&lt;p&gt;There are certainly some people for whom this will be cost effective, especially if they spend most of their day traveling to places they can be 5-10 minutes +&amp;#x2F;- their target arrival. However for people like me who live on the east side of Manhattan and commute to FiDi it doesn&amp;#x27;t actually save a worthwhile amount of money.&lt;p&gt;Also forbes is incredibly spammy so here&amp;#x27;s the link directly to the promo: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.uber.com&amp;#x2F;info&amp;#x2F;plus&amp;#x2F;newyork&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.uber.com&amp;#x2F;info&amp;#x2F;plus&amp;#x2F;newyork&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>djrogers</author><text>You forgot that people commute 2 ways in your math, so 2 weeks of commutes would be 20 trips coming out to $5&amp;#x2F;trip, not 10.</text></comment>