Uber's Loss Exceeds $800M in Q3 on $1.7B in Net Revenue

Re:Uber's Loss Exceeds $800M in Q3 on $1.7B in Net Revenue by antiviral on Monday December 19, 2016 @08:49PM (#13216688)

By 'background check' I mean a process that the local govt. believes is necessary based on experience and past incidents, not something that someone at Uber came up with randomly.

"News of assaults by ride-hailing drivers has been a frequent occurrence. Reports of rape, battery and harassment have grabbed headlines in California, Georgia, Illinois, Texas, Washington, Florida and many other states. While some of these drivers have clean criminal histories, others had prior convictions that Uber and Lyft's background checks didn't find."

https://www.cnet.com/news/california-law-tightens-background...

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Re:Uber's Loss Exceeds $800M in Q3 on $1.7B in Net Revenue by ylhert on Monday December 19, 2016 @09:00PM (#13216760)

Background checks are definitely imperfect, but that is not Ubers fault. The issue is usually not the background check providers, but rather the upstream data sources (read: local governments, courthouses, DMV, etc)

Disclaimer: I work at a background check company

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Re:Uber's Loss Exceeds $800M in Q3 on $1.7B in Net Revenue by pfarnsworth on Monday December 19, 2016 @11:27PM (#13217465)

Have you bothered searching the incidences of taxi drivers attacking their customers? No, you'll just take whatever is spoonfed to you from the media, I guess.

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Re:Uber's Loss Exceeds $800M in Q3 on $1.7B in Net Revenue by grzm on Monday December 19, 2016 @11:33PM (#13217482)

No, you'll just take whatever is spoonfed to you from the media, I guess.

Within this thread, your parent has at least provided some support for their position. If you're aware of evidence to support yours (e.g., information regarding taxi-driver attacks or counter to the info in the cnet article), that would be a worthwhile contribution. Dismissing out of hand the commenter as naïve isn't civil.

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Re:Uber's Loss Exceeds $800M in Q3 on $1.7B in Net Revenue by antiviral on Monday December 19, 2016 @11:59PM (#13217575)

If you don't like CNET, here are a few hundred more 'incidents' involving Uber and also Lyft drivers, the most recent one being a kidnapping on 12/14/16:

http://www.whosdrivingyou.org/rideshare-incidents

Why are you so invested in ignoring what's right in front of you?

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Re:Uber's Loss Exceeds $800M in Q3 on $1.7B in Net Revenue by Analemma_ on Monday December 19, 2016 @08:47PM (#13216671)

It might come from the fact that they ragequit Austin rather than do background checks.

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Re:Uber's Loss Exceeds $800M in Q3 on $1.7B in Net Revenue by mgraczyk on Monday December 19, 2016 @08:50PM (#13216692)

Uber was already doing background checks in Austin. They quit in protest of a requirement that drivers be fingerprinted and forced to drive around with Uber decals on their cars.

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Re:Uber's Loss Exceeds $800M in Q3 on $1.7B in Net Revenue by wavefunction on Monday December 19, 2016 @09:42PM (#13216985)

Uber (combined with Lyft) spent $10,000,000 to lie to the people of Austin about the effects of Prop 1. At a conservative cost of $50 per finger-printing, that's enough to fingerprint 200,000 drivers.

I know because I received over 30 pieces of direct mail in the two weeks leading up to the vote from whatever clown-show operation they hired. Twelve of the direct mail pieces were the same mailer.

Given the waste of paper and their previous history (especially the behavior of the executives), I don't care if Uber ever "comes back."

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Re:Uber's Loss Exceeds $800M in Q3 on $1.7B in Net Revenue by ylhert on Monday December 19, 2016 @08:55PM (#13216725)

Correct

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Re:Uber's Loss Exceeds $800M in Q3 on $1.7B in Net Revenue by ylhert on Monday December 19, 2016 @08:57PM (#13216739)

Austin was requiring fingerprinting background checks, which have been shown to be much less accurate than the background check process that Uber currently uses. It's really a step backwards in every respect (speed, accuracy, cost).

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Re:Uber's Loss Exceeds $800M in Q3 on $1.7B in Net Revenue by TheCondor on Monday December 19, 2016 @08:52PM (#13216708)

I thought it had something to do with the type of background check and what was included

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Re:Uber's Loss Exceeds $800M in Q3 on $1.7B in Net Revenue by fudged71 on Monday December 19, 2016 @11:09PM (#13217399)

Yeah, here in Alberta, Uber wanted to be able to do their own background checks, but they were forced by the government to have the local police run background checks as well. Presumably there were a bunch of criminals passing the Uber background checks in the states and this needed to be addressed to meet the regulations.

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