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Not the author, just thought it would be interesting to see how opinions shook out here.

And it has been! My own personal take is that this is bad policy. Calibrating price to demand is well and good, doing it automatically is clever, but not keeping an eye on it and overriding the algorithm in situations like this is dumb. There's no way the few hours of extra income will make up for the lost business over time.

Plus, Uber depends on a lack of regulation to operate. Doing stuff that only helps the argument for regulation, and makes them look bad in the public eye, could be suicidal for their business model.