While I don't like Nth degree media (you know, the types of articles that link to other articles which link to other articles which link to the primary source), I'm also not a lawyer and find it tedious to read legalese. One of the jobs of journalists is to take information, make it explainable, and put it in context.
Fair enough. Skip to 14.33.050.A and read just that. It's written like a code specification. All the variables have values either defined there or trivially lookup-able.
I'll copy it for you with constant params filled in:
I calculated this for my last Uber ride (which was $18.47) and it was $24.84 instead so with a 25% margin that makes it $33.12. I think I would skip that ride and have done something else. For my last Lyft ride it cost $34.85 - $5.29 for Lyft Pink. I was prepared to do the $34.85. The calculated amount is $34.56 which with the 25% margin is $46.08. I know that ride so I would have brought my bike with me and taken BART that time. This is going to make going to the club a bit more expensive for me now if they do the same in SF. I'll probably suck it up on nights out but I'll probably drive for everything else.
Important note: Unlike the big argument everyone is having in the comments, you can't actually get paid for idle time right now. The way it works is that idle time gets loaded into calculations of those two factors which are currently 0.492 and 0.622.
So if you want to game those figures you need to create more idle time but you'll only be able to take advantage of it next year (when they're updated).
