Re:Uber drivers gang up to cause surge pricing, research says
by emodendroket on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @08:52PM
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I'd say the big externalities affecting non-customers are increased congestion and a questionable insurance arrangement. There are also the handful of cases of sexual assault and similar that have happened that arguably could have been avoided with background checks, but perhaps the incidence of these is small enough that you could write it off.
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Re:Uber drivers gang up to cause surge pricing, research says
by smsm42 on Friday August 04, 2017 @01:14PM
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Is there really big change in congestion? If not Uber, people would take a taxi or drive themselves - that's what I'd do. Both cases don't reduce congestion.
As for insurance, there are tons of people on the road with bad insurance, at least for Uber as I understand you have something to back it up.
As for assaults and other bad apples, that could have happened with taxi too. I don't believe any company of these proportions could have checks that could 100% prevent such cases. I'm not sure it's possible in even in principle...