{"id":94720,"date":"2016-11-29T14:45:19","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T22:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/?p=94720"},"modified":"2016-11-29T14:45:19","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T22:45:19","slug":"new-lyft-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/new-lyft-update\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Lyft Update Is Super Helpful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting today, Lyft will\u00a0give customers the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/11\/29\/lyft-upfront-pricing\/?utm_cid=hp-n-1#X9_lNcJQOkqs\" target=\"_blank\">exact cost\u00a0of a ride<\/a>\u00a0instead of a price estimate.<\/p>\n<p>Uber <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.uber.com\/upfront-fares-no-math-and-no-surprises\/\" target=\"_blank\">already rolled out<\/a> with upfront fares for regular rides in July, and Lyft is now doing the same.\u00a0The new feature is similar to the price feature for an Uber Pool or Lyft Line, but it&#8217;s still subject to change if the ride takes more or less time than expected or if the destination is changed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Before you buy a pair of jeans, you probably check the price tag. You don\u2019t want to be surprised when you check out. The same is true when you take a Lyft ride. Now you can ride a little easier knowing how much you\u2019ll be charged \u2014 no surprises,&#8221; Lyft wrote in a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lyft.com\/posts\/now-live-see-your-ride-total\" target=\"_blank\">blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The update is currently\u00a0available in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sacramento, Nashville, Dallas\/Fort Worth, and Phoenix, and\u00a0it will soon be available to other cities in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>xx, The FabFitFun\u00a0Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":"Starting today, Lyft will\u00a0give customers the\u00a0exact cost\u00a0of a ride\u00a0instead of a price estimate. Uber already ...","author":1557554,"featured_media":94746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[269,185],"tags":[],"thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/29144903\/shutterstock_474258028-660x400.jpg","thumbnail_url_middle_card":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/29144903\/shutterstock_474258028.jpg","formated_date":"November 29, 2016","category_name":"News","category_icon":"https:\/\/d3vodd1ws13xud.cloudfront.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10113842\/news.svg","author_name":"","trending":false,"sponsored":false,"random_color":"#3d61a0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94720"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1557554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}