Your post reads like you are being purposefully obtuse. Here are the facts: 0. There is a demand to leave the CBD due to a hostage taking. 1. 4x surge pricin

Your post reads like you are being purposefully obtuse. Here are the facts: 0. There is a demand to leave the CBD due to a hostage taking. 1. 4x surge pricing kicks in 2. The person who tweeted about about being concerned with the CBD events was obviously aware of the CBD situation since they tweeted about it It may have been an algorithm that increased pricing to 4x. But it's clear that Uber can (and will) reduce pricing or cover fares in certain emergency situations. We know this because that's exactly what they did an hour after tweeting about 4x surge pricing. There's no reason they shouldn't have been able to do this when they tweeted about surge pricing in the first place.