Surge pricing is an effective way to get drivers in the road. I am an Uber driver that only drives during surge because i can make $50 - $60 an hour. In other words, drivers are incentivised (sic) to drive on holidays, late nights and weekends because of the bump in pay. If there was no surge pricing on New Year's Eve more than half of the drivers would have been home with their families.
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Surge pricing is an effective way to get drivers in the road. I am an Uber driver that only drives during surge because i can make $50 - $60 an hour. In other words, drivers are incentivised (sic) to drive on holidays, late nights and weekends because of the bump in pay. If there was no surge pricing on New Year's Eve more than half of the drivers would have been home with their families.