Re:Uber: Disability Laws Don’t Apply to Us
by giltleaf on Friday May 22, 2015 @10:20AM
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The special request feature wouldn't be hard to implement, but I'm not sure that it benefits drivers to respond to it unless there was also a system to incentivize them.
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Such as being paid for accepting the business?
Re:Uber: Disability Laws Don’t Apply to Us
by maxlybbert on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @12:35AM
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I'm sure I'm not the only person seeing ads from Uber to use my own car for extra income. For the record, I haven't signed up.
My own car is not wheelchair accessible. It is spacious, and could fit a collapsed wheelchair. But I don't have a lift. Even if I were to sign up as an Uber driver, I can't say that I'm a kind enough soul to add a wheelchair lift or other equipment to make my car wheelchair accessible.
I might be willing to do so for the right incentive. If Uber were to get me a discount on the modification, or promise to buy my car from me when I no longer want it, or give me a higher percentage of the fare when I pick somebody up, etc. But I, personally, wouldn't foot the bill for purely altruistic reasons.