re: 26 year old women charged 80% of her bank account for 20 min Uber, cant pay rent

I used Uber 3 times in New Nork over the weekend. The wknd of the New York marathon, and never had to wait longer than 5 min before the driver arrived. I only played surge pricing once, yesterday right after the race, but it notifies you 3 times that you will be paying surge pricing, and you even have to type in how much the surge pricing is before it allows you to continue.

I gladly played 2x's normal fare to have a clean car pick us up in 3 min from the hotel, and get us to the airport on time, all while one of the biggest marathons in the world was going on a block from the hotel.