{"id":2945,"date":"2016-01-02T16:33:50","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T00:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmtechblog.com\/?p=2945"},"modified":"2016-01-02T16:33:50","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T00:33:50","slug":"uber-makes-1-billionth-trip-passenger-gets-a-year-of-free-uber-rides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/?p=2945","title":{"rendered":"Uber makes 1 billionth trip, passenger gets a year of free Uber rides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uber recently announced that, back on Christmas Eve, two riders in London officially made the company\u2019s 1 billionth trip. Driver Ara picked up passenger Marvin in London Fields, Hackney in a blue Honda Insight and made the\u00a0\u00a35 trip to Hoxton, Uber said in a blog post announcing the news.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The duo gets a pretty sweet bonus for playing a part in the milestone. \u201cWe\u2019re putting one year\u2019s worth of free rides in rider Marvin\u2019s stocking and our driver-partner Ava will be taking a vacation on us to the Uber city of his choice,\u201d Uber said. The firm is also going to make a donation to a charity based in the town of Hackney, the origin of the now famous ride.<\/p>\n<p>Talk about good luck. If I had a year\u2019s worth of Uber rides, I\u2019d probably end up selling my car. And the driver? He gets to choose from one Uber city out of 68 countries. Guess I\u2019ll keep riding along in hopes I win the 2 billionth ride.<\/p>\n<div class=\"infinite-scroll-metadata\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"sourcevia-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"sourcevia fCaps fLS0\"><span class=\"label fLS1\">SOURCE<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.uber.com\/one-in-a-billion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UBER<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uber recently announced that, back on Christmas Eve, two riders in London officially made the company\u2019s 1 billionth trip. Driver Ara picked up passenger Marvin in London Fields, Hackney in a blue Honda Insight and made the\u00a0\u00a35 trip to Hoxton, Uber said in a blog post announcing the news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cars","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}