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If surge pricing is enabled in order to temper demand until supply can catch up, it promotes supply from places Uber may not like (Lyft).

No app yet to query Lyft and Uber, see who is cheaper at the moment, and launch the cheaper provider?

Here is a website that does the comparison between the 2, but you have to manually enter the surge percentage, http://www.whatsthefare.com/

I think someone mentioned it at least a year ago in a discussion about Uber vs. Lyft.