Becasue they are moronic and have no clue WTF they are doing. also I bet Uber displays ghost cars in those situations to trick the foolish noobs into thinking they better get online or lose a ride. I've noticed a trend in the surge being delayed on a lot of these events now. I think they are trying to get all the idiots to pop prematurely by lagging the surge machine.
Why stay online at a concert with no surge
There's at least 20 drivers logged on at shoreline for keith urban even before surge started ..
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THis is all due to your network speeds and data connection. THe busier the networks are the slower everything runs. Your phone is just querying a server for fresh surge data to display, sometimes it cna't get the data fast enough and you need to stop moving the screen around and let it download or physically move to a spot with a better signal.Yes, today would be a great example. It did not show at 5pm on my end either. But the surge at 6pm was incredible, I spotted 3.5 in soma (3.7 off the coast, but come on, who are they kidding) and it was consistent for me well into the 8 'o'clock hour. Not enough cars showing on the pax app eventhough it was rush hour. Less cars, servers were able to display surge.
Giants game tonight, yes the surge disappeared in the middle of the 9th, and reappeared about 5 min after the game let out. Started at 1.4, 1.5, 1.8, 2.2, 2.1 (I went online at 2.1). Surge was not showing on partner app. Why? Because the amount of cars available was still high, the surge was localized in soma, but there were still cars available in fidi.
Although, there's times when surge doesn't show and I'll restart the partner app, and wala. But if I continue to zoom in or move the map around, I lose the surge signal again. I don't have this problem with lyft btw (but lyft has problems of its own with so called mini surges than never appear on the map. I spotted a 200% in mountain view that would not show on the map).
It seems the surge shows when there are less cars available. That's why the 2am surge shows consistently for me, not enough cars overloading servers.
But it's just a theory.
Your looking at old data. Your not getting a a solid data connection in most of these situations. The bars are not representative of your data connection. You can have four bars and zero data. your LTE is having to switch to slower speed networks when it loses a LTE connection so it can get stuck not finding a network.I monitor my signal at all times using LTE Discovery, thanks to a tip from Adieu. Even why my signal is at full strength in the 60's or 70's, surge is still absent on the app.
I've waited over an hour by not moving the map around and it still won't show, despite showing the surge in every other city around the bay.
It's just too much of a coincidence for it not to work properly for the city.
i dunno, ditch the phone. is it a iPhone? those things are worthless anyway
Also depending on your phone type, you may not be compatible to even get the LTE network you are paying for. So then your on H or worse 3G or the death sentence > Edge network.
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