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Uber Banned In Delhi After Taxi Driver Accused of Rape
RockDoctor writes BBC News is reporting that a 26-year old Indian woman is alleging rape against a driver for the embattled Uber transport-managing company. In a post on the Uber blog, one "Saad Ahmed" implicitly admits that the driver was a Uber driver, that the lift was arranged through Uber's service, and that the full range of Uber's safety mechanisms had been applied to his employment, and by implication, that Uber accepts some culpability for putting this (alleged) rapist into contact with his (alleged) victim. "Our initial investigations have revealed shortcomings of the private cab company which didn't have GPS installed in its cabs and the staff wasn't verified," Delhi Special Commissioner Deepak Mishra said. But Uber says safety was paramount, and added it had GPS traces of all journeys. "We work with licensed driver-partners to provide a safe transportation option, with layers of safeguards such as driver and vehicle information, and ETA-sharing [estimated time of arrival] to ensure there is accountability and traceability of all trips that occur on the Uber platform," its statement added.
Uber. It means super in German. That's misleading. It should be called Rides with Strangers Without Background Checks.
In other words, you're victim blaming, and have no clue what you're talking about because you've never been to India and are therefore oversimplifying the problem like a fucking idiot?
Let's take Uber at its word and accept that the "full range of safety mechanisms" was truly applied, and those mechanisms comport with contemporary acceptable standards for background checks in India.
If that is the case, and the guy came up clean but yet still went on to do X, how is Uber any more culpable than a taxi company hiring a cabbie with no record, who subsequently goes out and does X, or a tour company hiring a bus driver with a spotless background, who nonetheless does X?
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You are the fucking problem. Where in the goddam TFA did it say the woman simply went limp and let the man have his way?
Fuck you.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
So why don't do the same thing with police officers? Make an app so that people can sign up and when a real police is sick, some random guy gets a gun and a badge for a day. If he makes a mistake, it's not the end of the world, because real police officers also make mistakes. Right?
Hell, we could do it with surgeons too...
predatory price increases when the services are most needed
This is an unfair critisism. When demand is highest (rush hour on a rainy day) the prices should go up. The higher price will give an incentive for more drivers to provide the service. That is the way free markets work. The alternative is to have shortages or rationing when demand is high, and a glut when demand is low (which is how taxis work).
No economic system is going to give you everything you want, at the price you want to pay, but a free market is going to come closest.