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jrfunkensteinJeff Ihaza
4/08/16 2:18am
‘Uber admits no wrongdoing in the settlement.’

Well, that’s the important thing, isn’t it? Not that businesses actually protect their Goddamn customers, but that those greedy ass companies that lie about their practices don’t ever have to admit to having literally broken the fucking law.

You’d have to be a fucking idiot to climb into an unlicensened vehicle driven by someone who could be a fucking serial killer, with nothing more than the hollow assurances of the company that is fucking your over.
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  Kony Tornheiserjrfunkenstein
  4/08/16 9:30am
  Nah, you’re dumb. There is no evidence that Uber is any more dangerous than taxis, for example, and the service is way, way better.
  
  You are the idiot. An overLy fearful idiot at that.
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  RockYouLikeAHermanCainKony Tornheiser
  4/08/16 11:57am
  “The service is way, way better” is an opinion and nothing more.
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ChrisMSFJeff Ihaza
4/08/16 1:04am
Honesty, and sadly, this isn’t a penalty for uber. They don’t see this as a punishment, but an investment. Because their endgame is NOT “help drivers move people places,” it’s, “an automobile available to do what you want, be that travel, transport, or delivery, when you want.” And a key component of that is going to be automation. They’re already spending millions on driverless cars — uber can’t fucking WAIT until the “problem” of people is solved and they can remove that unpredictable, bothersome, expensive variable from their equation. And if you thought the world of an underemployed, victimized “contractor” sucked — and it does!! — just wait until even horseshit jobs like driving for Uber or busting your ass for fucking Washio disappear. So, sure, this looks bad now, but convincing municipalities that drivers are the worst part of an uber ride only helps them in the long run. And after they win and a few more people hit the unemployment line, we’ll all shrug and call the victims losers.
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  VeryVickyChrisMSF
  4/08/16 2:24am
  But won’t the cost and upkeep of driverless cars be astronomical compared with exploiting a driver who already has a car?
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  mikagekunChrisMSF
  4/08/16 8:42am
  Can anyone really make a living being an Uber driver as it is though? Just like fast food jobs, this one needs to be eliminated by robotics.
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pthalomarieJeff Ihaza
4/08/16 12:28am
Also, the background checks have a fatal flaw. Unlike a taxi company, Uber cannot verify who is actually behind the wheel. I have a neighbor who is an Uber driver and has a clean record. But she often lets her husband go pick up customers instead, and he has multiple drunk driving citations and a criminal record (albeit a minor one.)
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  opiumsmabytchpthalomarie
  4/08/16 9:08am
  But she often lets her husband go pick up customers instead, and he has multiple drunk driving citations and a criminal record (albeit a minor one.)
  
  GIF
  
  I really hope he’s been going to meetings.
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Bill WeldonJeff Ihaza
4/07/16 11:37pm
Interesting how Uber is valued, by its investors, at $64 Billion. I heard it is not profitable. Interesting.
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  duckinthefaceat250knotsBill Weldon
  4/07/16 11:41pm
  I think it was actually Mr. Biddle that revealed documents about Uber’s unprofitably last August. I think the jig is to keep going until they can get slightly profitable and do an IPO, then cash out, but it doesn’t look like that will happen any time soon.
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  GeorgeGeoffersonLivesBill Weldon
  4/07/16 11:46pm
  Is this really interesting in the sense that this is news? Lots of these “New Economy” companies don’t make money and have high values.
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I Have No Account and I Must PostJeff Ihaza
4/07/16 11:57pm
Uber is just so fucking gross, I can’t bring myself to use it. It just feels disgusting.
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  escamilloI Have No Account and I Must Post
  4/08/16 1:38am
  What don’t you like about it? If you think the drivers are unhappy/being screwed somehow, I’d encourage you to just take one ride and ask your driver what they think of it. I use Uber pretty regularly and usually talk to the drivers and they do occasionally wish that they were paid more, but I think that’s common to literally every employee everywhere, and I’ve never had one say “man, I wish I wasn’t doing this job.”
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  Kony TornheiserI Have No Account and I Must Post
  4/08/16 4:21pm
  There is nothing ‘gross’ about Uber. From a service perspective, it’s great, and one in which people that have other jobs (or are in school) can make extra cash driving on their own schedule. I chat with nearly every driver I’ve ever had, and I’ve never had one that feels close to the way you do. Why do you think that is?
  
  You’ve been duped.
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Executor ElassusJeff Ihaza
4/08/16 7:26am
Articles about the “sharing economy” always make me think of this quote:

There is no rate of pay at which a United States pick-and-shovel laborer can live which is low enough to compete with the work of a steam shovel as an excavator. The modern industrial revolution is similarly bound to devalue the human brain at least in its simpler and more routine decisions … [T]aking the second revolution as accomplished, the average human being of mediocre attainments or less has nothing to sell that is worth anyone’s money to buy.

That was Norbert Wiener, introducing his canonical text “Cybernetics”, the founding text (alongside Shannon’s “Mathematical theory of Communication”) of information theory, written in 1948.
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╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and BokeJeff Ihaza
4/07/16 11:47pm
That money will go towards serving the neediest citizens of both cities: young associates trying to pay rent on their paltry salaries.
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Jaqen H'gharJeff Ihaza
4/08/16 12:52am
What’s really ironic is in the press release they basically only promised to do better in California. Left the room open to continue to do crappy safety checks for their customers everywhere else in the country.

I live in Austin and we are super hipster and tech friendly and if we have a problem with Uber then that’s saying something.

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OneofyouJeff Ihaza
4/07/16 11:49pm
Oh, but Cabs argle bargle and Taxis argle bargle! Stop defending Uber. Uber is not your friend, all you people who feel the need to defend this company that erodes workers rights. Now go to bed, no supper.
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