"When I talked to drivers, I came to the conclusion that the drivers are paid more than the passengers are charged"
That isn't true in general for an Uber driver. What you might have been seeing is that when Uber goes into a new city they guarantee a minimum amount of pay per hour for a driver during certain times if they are logged into the app accepting fares. It is only a temporary measure until they get established in a local market. Once they stop subsidizing earnings for drivers drop precipitously.
Oh, yes of course. I meant to say that I came to this conclusion for the super cheap pools which this question was about (Lyft had (has?) $5 rides in SF, Uber had something similar).
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"When I talked to drivers, I came to the conclusion that the drivers are paid more than the passengers are charged"
That isn't true in general for an Uber driver. What you might have been seeing is that when Uber goes into a new city they guarantee a minimum amount of pay per hour for a driver during certain times if they are logged into the app accepting fares. It is only a temporary measure until they get established in a local market. Once they stop subsidizing earnings for drivers drop precipitously.
That minimum exists in SF, which is not a new market. Source: my last Uber driver.
Oh, yes of course. I meant to say that I came to this conclusion for the super cheap pools which this question was about (Lyft had (has?) $5 rides in SF, Uber had something similar).