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 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 …
Professor Brishen Rogers is quoted in this article by Morningstar Advisor about Yellow Cab Cooperative Inc., San Francisco’s largest taxi company, which filed for bankruptcy protection Friday. Is the rapid rise of companies like Uber and Lyft to blame for the rise in the number of traditional taxi companies turning to chapter 11? Read the Full Story
Professor Brishen Rogers is quoted in this article by the Christian Science Monitor about a recent Seattle City Council vote that allows drivers for Uber and other ride-sharing companies to unionize. The vote highlights an on-going debate between companies like Uber, which say they are technology providers, and workers who say the firms are denying them benefits by classifying them as contractors. Read the Full Article.
Professor Brishen Rogers in quoted in this article by The Verge about the effect Uber and its peers have had on the on-demand economy. Read the full article.