Originally Posted By: Wolf359
Originally Posted By: madRiver
There are no real numbers out there if riding in Uber is less safe then a cab. Google taxi violence and plenty appears.....
Technically I think it might be more dangerous in a cab. There are stories of cab drivers attacking riders etc., and it's up to the rider to figure which taxi driver it was afterwards. With Uber, they always know who the driver was. On the other hand because Uber doesn't do as good a job screening their drivers as taxi cab drivers, they could have more bad drivers. But in MA, they just finished rescreening Uber drivers and a lot of them with records and old convictions that didn't initially show up got kicked out. Again it all goes back to media reporting, it's fun for them to be alarmists about new technology, but ho hum about a taxi cab assault that happens on a regular basis but doesn't get report. Sorta like how the fender benders never make it to the news, only good deaths are.
Wolf,
I wonder the ratio of cabbies to Uber drivers. No doubt there are problem cabbies but I would be curious the actual breakdown of cabbie related crimes vs Uber related crimes as a total percentage of each population.
I don't know if Uber has changed its background check system but the last I read they are still not using applicants fingerprints but instead relying on public records of the SS#.
Fingerprints are cross-checked against the FBI database.
Taxicab pre-employment background checks have been more thorough from what I have read over the years. Does it matter to me personally? No. Does it matter to me when its my wife or daughter going to the airport or coming home from a night of drinking with her friends? Yes.
Uber offers a discount price over a cab company. How does everyone think they accomplish this if not for making cuts in employee benefits and background checks, etc? The law suits that Uber has been losing repeatedly in US courts supports this supposition.
Originally Posted By: madRiver
There are no real numbers out there if riding in Uber is less safe then a cab. Google taxi violence and plenty appears.....
Technically I think it might be more dangerous in a cab. There are stories of cab drivers attacking riders etc., and it's up to the rider to figure which taxi driver it was afterwards. With Uber, they always know who the driver was. On the other hand because Uber doesn't do as good a job screening their drivers as taxi cab drivers, they could have more bad drivers. But in MA, they just finished rescreening Uber drivers and a lot of them with records and old convictions that didn't initially show up got kicked out. Again it all goes back to media reporting, it's fun for them to be alarmists about new technology, but ho hum about a taxi cab assault that happens on a regular basis but doesn't get report. Sorta like how the fender benders never make it to the news, only good deaths are.
Wolf,
I wonder the ratio of cabbies to Uber drivers. No doubt there are problem cabbies but I would be curious the actual breakdown of cabbie related crimes vs Uber related crimes as a total percentage of each population.
I don't know if Uber has changed its background check system but the last I read they are still not using applicants fingerprints but instead relying on public records of the SS#.
Fingerprints are cross-checked against the FBI database.
Taxicab pre-employment background checks have been more thorough from what I have read over the years. Does it matter to me personally? No. Does it matter to me when its my wife or daughter going to the airport or coming home from a night of drinking with her friends? Yes.
Uber offers a discount price over a cab company. How does everyone think they accomplish this if not for making cuts in employee benefits and background checks, etc? The law suits that Uber has been losing repeatedly in US courts supports this supposition.