Annual Review of Taxi Surge Patience
The surge is 2.4x. The options are accept, wait, or rethink the entire evening.
ANNUAL REVIEW Taxi Surge Patience: A Search History September 2022
The following searches were conducted over a fourteen-month period ending September 2022. They are presented in chronological order without editorial intervention.
"how long does uber surge last"
"surge pricing how long average"
"surge pricing algorithm explained"
"does walking away from surge area reduce price"
"how far do you have to walk to get out of surge area"
"is surge based on demand or supply"
"lyft vs uber surge same time"
"which is cheaper right now"
"is 2.4x surge bad"
"what is a normal surge multiplier"
"when does surge go away friday night"
"taxi vs uber surge 2022"
"taxi app not surge pricing"
"best time to get uber no surge"
"how long to wait for surge to drop"
"worth waiting 15 minutes for surge to drop"
"how to tell if surge will go up or down"
"surge pricing will it drop calculator"
"should I just take the surge"
"I took the surge"
"why did my uber cost more than estimated surge"
"uber surge estimate accuracy"
"how often does surge estimate match final price"
"can you dispute uber surge charge"
"uber surge charge dispute form"
"did not dispute uber surge charge"
ANALYSIS
Every search in the record circles the same question from a different angle and arrives at the same absence of resolution. The surge pricing algorithm is not documented in a form accessible to the person standing outside a restaurant at 10:45 PM on a Friday. The documentation that does exist was written for a context where the reader has time to engage with it, which is not the current context.
The person who accepts the surge and the person who waits for it to drop are both correct, and both of them are standing outside. One of them is moving. The other is watching an app that displays an estimated arrival time that updates every forty-five seconds.
RECOMMENDATION
No recommendation is available from the search history. The search history was consulted fourteen times and produced fourteen variations of the same situation: a number, a choice, and no method for evaluating the choice that works faster than the situation resolves itself.
The annual review will continue next year.