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what's crazy is in this day and age, you'd think uber/lyft are available in most markets but last week, I had to go to Baton Rouge (LSU with 50k students is bas

• brendoelfrendo 4y ago
  I flew to Hartfort, CT (BDL, actually in the rather distant suburb of Windsor Locks CT) last year, and my flight was delayed to about 10:30pm; I almost didn't get an Uber because the market simply doesn't for the drivers to stick around that late. There were other delayed flights coming in after mine, closer to midnight; my driver said quite plainly that those folks would have to figure something else out, because all the rideshare drivers in the parking lot were heading home for the night. All this to say, I should have prepared better and I don't know what I expected. We take the "always on" nature of these services for granted, but that's not how the world works outside of the major metros.
  • lotsofpulp 4y ago
    >I almost didn't get an Uber because the market simply doesn't for the drivers to stick around that late. The market does, but it is bad PR for Uber to offer sufficiently high surge pricing to attract drivers. So Uber makes the choice to simply not offer a driver $400 for what would normally be a $40 car ride, even though $400 would get someone on the road to drive you somewhere. It makes no sense that people complain about surge pricing.
  • Ekaros 4y ago
    And in well regulated market there would be supply even at that time. Maybe not sufficient, but still guaranteed supply. But oh well people didn't want that... Too bad for them for getting what they wanted.