> “Society is more willing to accept wealthy people paying higher fares,” said Chris Knittel, a business professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “But if the repercussion of lower fares in lower-income places is longer wait times, that’s probably what they want to keep an eye on."

I can't help but recall all the times Uber or its defenders claimed that its supposedly uniform fare scale meant that it could serve all neighborhoods equally, unlike the taxi companies. It will be interesting to see if this policy reproduces the same behavior while laundering it through machine learning.