the-surging-economy

$470 Uber Ride Cost More Than a Ticket to a Three-Day Music Festival

Kevin Montgomery · 08/11/14 12:40PM

For the 200,000 attendees of San Francisco's Outside Lands Music Festival this past weekend, where a three-day pass cost $275, Uber's hated "surge pricing" scheme made sure that exhausted revelers ponied up hundreds of dollars to get a few miles across town.