Product design question

How would you improve Uber?

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What this question tests

Product sense applied to a mature, well known product, picking one specific real pain point over a scattershot list.

Pick a specific user segment and moment, riders during high surge pricing periods, rather than improve the product broadly.
Identify the real pain point, surge pricing feels unpredictable and can erode trust even when supply and demand justifies it.
Propose a specific fix, showing a short term price lock option or a wait a few minutes for a lower price alternative at booking time.
Explain why this helps both sides, riders get more control and transparency, the platform retains the ride instead of losing it to a cancellation.
Define the success metric, booking conversion rate during surge periods and change in cancellation rate.

Narrows to one specific, real friction point, surge price unpredictability, instead of listing many unrelated ideas across pricing, safety, and UI.
Proposes a concrete mechanism, a wait and save option shown at booking time, giving riders agency instead of just displaying a multiplier.
Names a clear metric and expected direction, booking conversion rising during surge periods, marked as the hypothesis being tested.

Proposing a long list of small UI tweaks with no single clear focus or reasoning for why it matters most.
Ignoring the business trade off, since giving riders a way to avoid surge pricing could reduce short term revenue.
No metric defined to test whether the idea actually works.

How would you handle the revenue trade off if this feature reduces surge revenue?
How would you test this without disrupting normal driver supply and demand balance?