Passenger paid $ 14 thousand for the 20 minute trip to Uber

Photo: Twitter Uber

Toronto resident Hisham Salama used the services of an online taxi service Uber and paid 18 500 Canadian dollars or 14 000 US dollars per trip length 8 km.

According to New York PostAmerican Emily Kennard shared on Twitter a story about how Uber demanded from her friend a huge amount for a trip to Toronto for a short distance. Hisham himself spoke about the incident on his private page on Instagram.

Thereafter Uber acknowledged the error and paid the full compensation.

“An error occurred and has been fully resolved. We have fully refunded this customer and apologized to him for this incident," the spokesperson said. Uber. In addition, a company representative assures that Uber took the necessary measures to prevent this from happening again in the future. An internal investigation is also conducted to understand why this happened.

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