Uber prices surge on New Year’s Eve

The company would not comment on the lack of availability, but in a 2012 blog post said, “Being unavailable, inconvenient is the opposite of Uber. This is a big part of why we do surge pricing. What good is it if we are as unavailable as a taxi system or an unreliable muni system on NYE?”

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