03-23-2017, 03:16 AM
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Originally posted by leilanidude
The way I am seeing how the app works, why would a potential passenger want to tell others (as in others on the plane) who would then switch from a taxi at the airport to Uber? This would possibly end up creating "surge" pricing and cost the person more money for the ride.
Perhaps, but then they would still do a request once through baggage, no?
I wonder if Uber suppresses any surge pricing during a rollout. Might be alienating to new riders in an area to see surge prices. Again, I dunno. When I heard one of my pickups on the first cruise day say that they got the message "all area Uber drivers are busy" I would think that would be condition for a surge. There was no surge that I could see.
Without knowledge of Uber's actual algorithm I am totally just guessing.musing/speculating in the dark. The most important part of the algorithm I wish I knew is the "distance" factor. How far from Hilo, for instance, would a rider request come from? Akaka Falls? Keaau? HPP?
Until that is known, I don't see how the Puna subdivisions will be served. Some folks would almost have to do an experiment to get some data. Say if a driver sat online at Orchiland at a specific time and folks around Orchidland, HPP (lower, upper, Hilo-side, Kalapana-side), Pahoa, Keaau, etc. and checked the Uber rider app for availability. Then one could see the distance of the (I assume) concentric circle of availability. Would it be based on route distance from the driver or as the crows flies?
(For example, Seaview is probably less than a few miles from 130/Kamaili Rd intersection, but many miles away via either the Kalapana route or Kamaili Rd. Bad example because of the lack of cell reception in the area, but the route distance between Orchidland center and mid depth Ainaloa would be different for route distance vs crow flies.)
Or a single driver riding around checking ride availability in a few directions when a driver in known to be online at a predetermined location.
And even then whatever data came through might not be all that generalizable to all times. Would love to see that Uber algorithm! Seems a closely guarded secret:
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology...place.html
https://www.quora.com/How-does-Ubers-dis...rithm-work
https://www.fastcoexist.com/3052703/the-...m-revealed
Cheers,
Kirt