Users know that Uber’s surge pricing is in effect when ordering a car from their smartphone and their app reports: “Demand is off the charts! Fares have increased to get more Ubers on the road.” ...

That's when Uber's surge pricing kicks in — more people want rides, so the price of rides increases. This chart shows how the percentage change in drivers in the area increased following the ...

We’ve talked about Uber’s surge pricing—the mechanism by which the ... And then they give us a pretty graph! (Click to enlarge.) As you can see, when surge kicks in, all the things that ...

Hours before any celebrations began on Thursday, Uber sent out an email with tips to users which showed a graph of the busiest ... Uber suggests that the high surge pricing were anomolies.

In this handy chart, Uber shows that revelers can expect prices ... the Surge Drop feature that will send a notification when surge pricing in a particular pick-up area has ended.

The next graph shows how estimated waiting times ... than getting more drivers on the road in the short-term, Uber’s surge pricing instead depletes drivers in adjacent areas.

Uber gave people a heads up for the high prices on New Year’s Eve in a Dec. 30 blog post. A chart in the post suggested that a moderate level of surge pricing could be in effect between 8 p.m ...

Thaler argues that Uber pushed the envelope much too far. For example, its surge pricing was limited in the ... when demand is off-the-charts high. At this lodge, rooms for that week have to ...

As you can see in the chart above, Uber notched $6.77 billion in gross bookings on its ride platform in Q1, representing a -36% year-over-year decline: the best performance since the pandemic hit ...

San Francisco-based ride service Uber quadrupled fares during Monday's hostage crisis in the central business district of Sydney, Australia -- then quickly reversed course after widespread criticism ...