Uber disclosed 3k sexual assaults in U.S. rides last year

Posted by enraged_camel on Thursday December 05, 2019 @07:35PM
from the washingtonpost.com dept.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/12/05/uber-disclosed-sexual-assaults-us-rides-last-year-its-long-awaited-safety-report/

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Re:Uber disclosed 3k sexual assaults in U.S. rides last year by breerly on Thursday December 05, 2019 @10:34PM (#21719060)

Three thousand out of what? A million?

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Re:Uber disclosed 3k sexual assaults in U.S. rides last year by x1798DE on Thursday December 05, 2019 @11:14PM (#21719222)

According to this article, there are 17 million user rides each day: https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/05/uber-is-finally-trading-ab...

So I guess it's 3000 out of 6.2 billion rides if the data collection period for both is 1 year.

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Re:Uber disclosed 3k sexual assaults in U.S. rides last year by enraged_camel on Thursday December 05, 2019 @07:36PM (#21718286)

I think this neatly refutes the whole "I prefer Uber because it's safer than taxis!" argument that's commonly thrown around whenever the comparison comes up.

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Re:Uber disclosed 3k sexual assaults in U.S. rides last year by sushid on Friday December 06, 2019 @02:49PM (#21725325)

How can you “neatly refute” this without knowing the number of sexual assaults in cabs per ride/distance/etc?

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