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Uber/Lyft driver quoted surge & base fare snapshots

quoted fare for fixed test routes at fixed times, sampled as proxy for driver supply tightness

Feed detail
Measures
quoted fare for fixed test routes at fixed times, sampled as proxy for driver supply tightness
Source
Uber and Lyft public price-estimate pages/apps (no official API for public, but price estimate endpoints are fetchable)
Access
scrape-hostile
Cadence
intradayupdates multiple times a day
Thesis
Rising surge frequency and base fares signal driver-supply shortage, i.e., gig labor pulling back — a leading indicator of gig-worker income conditions and low-wage labor tightness
Maps to
UBER/LYFT equities, gig-economy labor supply, low-wage CPI
Crowdedness
contested
Tier
tC
Ban-risk
ban:high
Where this stands

This is a catalogued data feed with a research idea attached, not a validated edge. Being listed here means it has a specific source and a one-sentence causal mechanism mapped to what it should move — it doesn’t mean it has cleared the five-stage validation gate (point-in-time hygiene, out-of-sample holdout, multiple-testing correction, and the portfolio-layer backstop). As of today, every score on this site is prior-only; zero signals in the catalog have been promoted to “measured” status. See the methodology page for the full validation process and current counts.

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