What Taxi and Uber Drivers Really Think About the Ride-Sharing Boom
Professor Brishen Rogers is quoted in this blog post from In These Times. Read the Full Post
Professor Brishen Rogers is quoted in this blog post from In These Times. Read the Full Post
Professor Brishen Rogers co-authored this op-ed in the New York Times. Read the Full Article
Temple Law Professor Brishen Rogers is quoted in this article from The Verge. Read the Full Article
Professor Brishen Rogers was quoted in this article from The Verge. Read the Full Article
Professor Brishen Rogers was quoted in this article from the Christian Science Monitor. Read the Full Article
Professor Brishen Rogers is quoted in this Atlantic article about developments in state regulation of ride-hailing apps like Uber and Lyft. Read the Full Article
Professor Brishen Rogers is quoted in this article about efforts to organize gig workers in the platform economy. Read the Full Article
Professor Brishen Rogers is quoted in this article by the Mercury News about a new ecosystem of companies that have developed thanks to the continued emergence of Uber. Read the full article
Professor Brishen Rogers is quoted in this article about Uber’s operations in the city of Toronto. Uber has been operating ‘outside the law’ while hoping to change the rules that it is arguably breaking. Now, it appears their strategy may be about to pay off. Read the Full Story
The news out of Kalamazoo, Mich., this past weekend was grim: Authorities say Jason Brian Dalton, an Uber driver, shot and killed at least six people in different locations in the space of a few hours. Chillingly, Dalton apparently took several fares in between his alleged attacks. The case raises difficult questions about Uber’s responsibility toward passengers and the public. For example, could the company have prevented Dalton’s crimes? And if so, how should Uber and regulators respond? More stringent background checks are one option, but they can be discriminatory. They also quickly lead to diminishing returns, since they measure past behavior, and it is incredibly difficult, even based on current behavior, to predict who will become a mass shooter. There is one thing Uber probably could do using its existing technology and the massive amounts of data it already collects about its drivers and passengers: The company could spot crimes in progress by their drivers as they take place. But while that approach might be more effective than implementing more background checks (and more allegedly misleading “safety …