Uber paid $1.3 billion to drivers using Instant Pay in the past 12 months

Last year, Uber launched Instant Pay, a service that enabled drivers to receive their earnings on demand. On Thursday, the company announced that $1.3 billion has been paid out in the past 12 months with “hundreds of thousands” of drivers signed up.
Initially available as a pilot program, Instant Pay is available in all U.S. markets Uber operates in, and is being tested in 11 countries overseas. The premise behind the service is to expedite payment so that drivers didn’t have t