Yeah, people are willing to pay a premium for that freedom to avoid the pain of the taxi meter effect.

是的，人们愿意为这种自由支付额外费用，以避免出租车计价器效应带来的痛苦。

We stood on each side of the door as the taxi meter ticked, and the driver raised his eyes to the rearview mirror, waiting.

计程表滴答滴答地响着， 我们分别站在门的两边， 司机抬眼看着后视镜， 等待着。

Economists say that people are attracted to flat-rate rate pricing for a mix of all three of these reasons - the taxi meter effect, the insurance effect and because they sometimes overestimate how much they're actually going to consume.

经济学家表示，人们之所以被统一费率定价所吸引，是出于以下三个原因：出租车计价器效应、保险效应，以及因为他们有时会高估自己的实际消费量。