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Re:California appeals court rules Uber, Lyft must reclassify... by MAGZine on Friday October 23, 2020 @02:11AM (#24866484)
Maybe if they were paid enough, and/or had to vie for a limited supply of drivers, they'd turn on AC, clean their car, do short rides, etc.

People forget that when Uber was charging a fair price, the rides and drivers were nice. The race to the bottom has squeezed a lot of the good drivers out of the normal tier, and now you get busted vehicles with dirty interiors, and drivers not suited for driving OR hospitality.

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Re:California appeals court rules Uber, Lyft must reclassify... by okareaman on Friday October 23, 2020 @02:27AM (#24866553)
Some people are bad at their jobs. Every company has great workers, adequate workers and subpar workers. Why should Lyft and Uber be any different?
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Re:California appeals court rules Uber, Lyft must reclassify... by jonathan-neil on Friday October 23, 2020 @02:48AM (#24866657)
Its not different. But its also not the reason for why their business model is unsustainable, great straw man though.
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Re:California appeals court rules Uber, Lyft must reclassify... by okareaman on Friday October 23, 2020 @03:16AM (#24866808)
It seems to me their business model depends on replacing drivers with self-driving cars. This is not that discussion.
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Re:California appeals court rules Uber, Lyft must reclassify... by jonathan-neil on Friday October 23, 2020 @03:40AM (#24866941)
You are correct. It relies on replacing the drivers they are exploiting with robots that don't require a living wage. This is absolutely that discussion, like it or not.
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Re:California appeals court rules Uber, Lyft must reclassify... by okareaman on Friday October 23, 2020 @05:19AM (#24867462)
On that front, after I retired, I applied at Waymo as a safety driver but didn't get hired because some idiot almost hit me during the test drive while blasting his way onto the hwy 101 while merging. I did learn some interesting things though. I'd been watching Waymo cars in Mountain View for awhile. They were hiring new drivers because they needed a second driver to keep the first one awake! Apparently having the driver on camera all the time was not enough. Let's just say I'm highly skeptical that the recent opening of Waymo to the public in Arizona is not some Potemkin Village operation.
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