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A comment on California Labor Bill, Near Passage, Is Blow to Uber and Lyft. Parent comment

Re:California Labor Bill, Near Passage, Is Blow to Uber and ... by toast0 on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @12:43PM (#20930153)
As the second customer/employer, I wouldn't expect to pay time for the first leg while someone else was paying for it because routing may not be most beneficial to me/my customer. For example, the dropoff may be in the wrong direction -- I shouldn't pay for that, or the resulting extra time to doubleback.

Paying out idle time by the company that provides a fare makes sense, but requires cooperation between the employers.

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Re:California Labor Bill, Near Passage, Is Blow to Uber and ... by UnFleshedOne on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @01:59PM (#20931154)
But you control that by setting expectations, like driver must take a reasonably direct route after accepting request or arrive within a reasonable time. It is up to the driver then to decide if new request is on the route or postpone accepting until first commission is handled (somebody else might pick up that ride then).

I'm sure the devil is in detail though and we might end up with drivers occupied by route juggling when they should focus on safely driving...

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