When the surge pricing on for Uber X, I usually just request an Uber Black instead.
I've not seen surge pricing for Uber blacks yet but then again I only use Uber sparingly.
Yes,I also think that Uber is so useless,but the go go van is more useless,becauae a people from admiriaty to prince edward needs 450 dollars.They are so stupid and useless.
Surge pricing loses them a lot of business I would think. Last couple of weekends I have wanted to use them and surge was on up to 2+. No way!
I think I may have been a victim of Uber X drivers prolonging the pick up times when the demand increases to get higher fares......although I'm not sure if they can do this
For example Kwun Tong to Wan Chai the other night - requested and got a Uber X with 1.2 surge pricing, and he was literally 4 minutes away.....3 minutes later he was 15 minutes away but still in the same locale, I cancel and lo and behold surge pricing now 2.1 and Ubers are falling over themselves to pick me up.