An Uber driver charged a drunk passenger £102.17 for a journey, after taking him on a 20-mile detour around London while he slept.
Daniel
Kaizen ordered a minicab from Old Street to Wood Green, north London
this weekend, a five-mile trip which he said he was told would cost
around £15.
But the late-night
detour around the capital meant that his journey took five times longer
than he expected and the bill came to over £100.
He said that Uber has since apologised and promised to refund the money.
Mr Kaizen, 26, ordered an Uber minicab in the early hours of Bank
Holiday Monday morning and said that he slept most of the way back.
But instead of being driven through north London on what would have
been the quickest route, he spent the night riding due east to Barking
before being taken around the North Circular to his destination.After waking up at his destination, he switched on his phone give his driver a star rating and said “I nearly spat out my tea laughing at the route”.
Looking at his phone, he could see the round-about route the driver had taken as well as the car going beyond where he says he was dropped off.
He wrote on Facebook: "Well, I was drunk, but damn Uber, £105 for a £15 journey."
Mr Kaizen says Uber have now apologised and say they will refund the amount in the next five days.
It comes after another Uber passenger, Jonny Bee, was charged £93 for a five-minute journey after he says he was wrongly charged for a luxury car. Uber claimed the driver had forgotten to cancel the previous journey from his machine.
Credit: Telegraph
The highly successful app has sparked protests around the world taxi drivers who claim that Uber's private hire car drivers are not subject to the same level of regulation as they are.
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