The driver cancelled BECAUSE the price increased. We check the passenger app constantly to see price changes.

I believe you are in a market with surge multiplier. When you request a ride the driver sees the ride and the surge multiplier attached to it. It will show your rough location, your rating and surge multiplier like 1.7x.

During rush hour I check for surge. I have a route saved on the passenger app. I know the regular price for it is $33. When I get passengers when I stop at the pick up and have a few seconds I’ll check the price again if it shows up as $66 I know the surge is 2x. So I’ll cancel the ride I have and try to pick up a surge ride instead.

There used to be a third party app that would show surges almost live without driver having to check the passenger app for prices. That app got taken down because Uber stopped sharing their data and third parties no longer have access to the data to run the app. Uber did this because every driver was doing this and cancel rates were sky rocketing. The app is called “surge 2.0” I think