Uber tips: Split fares during surge pricing

Both Uber and Lyft said availability is the priority, but that comes at a price, especially on nights like New Year’s Eve.

Getting home safely after the clock strikes midnight is as easy as picking up the phone.

For those who have had too much to drink, there are plenty of options that don’t involve putting your life or someone else’s in danger.

In 2014, Uber signed an agreement with the New York attorney general’s office that prohibited the company from jacking up prices during natural disasters like “civil disorder” and “convulsion of nature”, but it left out New York City’s hottest natural disaster: New Year’s Eve.

On one hand, surge pricing is a model of great simplicity and beauty – a fine example of supply-and-demand at work.

And that was after four other Uber drivers cancelled their trips after initially accepting them, Barnes told ABC News. Once it locates a place nearby without surge pricing, SurgeProtector redirects you back to Uber’s app so you can call an Uber to a surge-less place.

Rideshare pricing can skyrocket and cabs are hard to flag down on New Year’s, but there are free options for revelers. That pairs you with strangers going the same direction. Want to graduate on time from Fresno State?

What goes up must come down and you’ll always be in the know with Surge Drop. But consider the irony: People save money all year by taking Uber instead of taxis.

If you’re going out to party tonight, don’t even think of driving home after you’ve been drinking.

Plus there’s the uncomfortable class-division thing that seems destined to intensify in coming years in our increasingly economically stratified society.

As usual, the MBTA is operating on an extended schedule this New Year’s Eve.

Sydney woman Skye Shanahan expected an expensive Uber fare for her trip from Neutral Bay to Blacktown (a trip she says usually costs almost $100) but wasn’t ready for the fifty minute trup to cost her upwards of $700.