They are reflected quite well in my opinion. Here is a blog post detailing the system they implemented in March 2012 http://blog.uber.com/2012/03/14/clear-and-s

They are reflected quite well in my opinion. Here is a blog post detailing the system they implemented in March 2012 http://blog.uber.com/2012/03/14/clear-and-straight-forward-surge-pricing/ http://blog.uber.com/2012/03/14/clear-and-straight-forward-s.... They also have useful notifications for when surge pricing ends. Not sure what happened in this situation though.