Do Uber drivers get charged for cancelling?

So drivers are not penalized for canceling individual rides, but they are penalized (sometimes severely by losing their ability to receive requests) for uncorrected patterns of high cancellation rates. How are uber drivers made aware of a customer (passenger) who needs a ride? What is the process?



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