It's 5pm on a weekday, and you're standing outside a stadium after an event just wrapped up. You open your ride-share app. Estimated wait: 12 minutes. Meanwhile, three neighborhoods over, drivers are circling empty streets with nobody requesting a ride.
This happens constantly on any ride-share platform. It's not a bug — it's just supply and demand failing to line up on their own.
Someone, or something, has to watch each part of the city. It needs to notice when a zone is out of balance, then decide what to do:
Raise prices, to pull in more drivers
Pay drivers a bonus to reposition
