Mike Isaac’s Super Pumped (p. 187) reports an Indian driver who threatened suicide due to reduction in Uber’s payments to drivers:
One incident involved an Indian man who arrived at an Uber outpost in hysterics, upset that Uber had yet again slashed prices. The man took out a canister, doused his body in gasoline and then brandished a lighter, threatening to set himself ablaze unless Uber raised its rates again. Security guards tackled the man, wrestled him to the ground, and stripped the lighter from his hands.