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    1. erin mccann |‏Verified account @mccanner 11 Dec 2017

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      how does this STILL KEEP HAPPENING? https://twitter.com/nkulw/status/940257523818487808 …

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    2. Karon‏ @karon 11 Dec 2017
      Replying to @mccanner

      It's a nasty problem to solve. Even if they pay staff to watch the news so they can manually disable the demand triggered surge pricing there will still be a slight gap between pricing going up and coming back down.

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    3. Karon‏ @karon 11 Dec 2017
      Replying to @karon @mccanner

      It would be interesting to compare the traffic spike after an incident with traffic spike after planned event like how Xmas tree lighting shuts down DC traffic. I wonder if there is enough of a pattern that AIs could learn to recognize and not surge?

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    4. erin mccann |‏Verified account @mccanner 11 Dec 2017
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      but there are *so many* official alert channels that they can sync up to within minutes of something kicking off.

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    5. Karon‏ @karon 11 Dec 2017
      Replying to @mccanner

      Sure, but it still takes manual intervention. They definitely need to do better but it isn't an easy problem to solve. Especially since I bet they never considered there would be times when surge is socially inappropriate in their startup plans.

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    6. Karon‏ @karon 11 Dec 2017
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      Now I wonder what hit first, the alerts or people bitching on twitter about the surge? Hopefully the alerts but I bet the gap was small.

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      erin mccann |‏Verified account @mccanner 11 Dec 2017
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      the alerts were almost instantaneous with the event. Surely they can say "oh NYC is responding at X level, let's pause the surge algorithm until a human can intervene and make sure we won't embarrass ourselves"?

      10:04 AM - 11 Dec 2017
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        1. Karon‏ @karon 11 Dec 2017
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          My cynical side suspects the techbros only recently accepted that they do have to consider human response and don't have a good connection API to feed anything in to disable surge based on set parameters. Cause they suck.

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