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Uber Knowingly Leased Unsafe Cars To Drivers, Says Report (usatoday.com)
According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, Uber knowingly rented recalled Honda sports utility vehicles to its drivers in Singapore, where at least one of which caught fire. USA Today reports: The paper reported Uber's Singapore office bought more than 1,000 Honda Vezel sports utility vehicles to rent to its drivers there. The cars contained a faulty electrical part that could catch on fire and Honda had recalled in Japan and elsewhere. There had been at least six reports of fires in the Vezel. In a statement Uber said that as soon as it learned of a Honda Vezel catching fire, it took swift action to fix the problem, coordinating with Singapore's Land Transport Authority as well as technical experts. However it acknowledged that it could have done more. The company said it has since introduced robust protocols and hired three dedicated experts in Singapore to ensure that it is fully responsive to safety recalls.
Gotta love those robust protocols
This is a nothing story. Cars have recalls all the time. You go to the dealer and they get fixed. What's the difference if Uber leased a car expecting drivers to go get it fixed?
If you're an obsessed Uber-hater, then "OMG!!!! This is 1 million smoking guns at once!!!". Give the hate a rest. No one wants to hear about your ridiculous obsessions or conspiracy theories or WTF ever.
Do they do this worldwide? Shouldn't all the same regulations apply? Maybe not if they say the driver is the renter. Good one!
So, now everything that isn't a sedan is called an SUV?
This thing is a hatchback, and if you really stretch and use the new definition for a hatchback, then maybe you could call it a crossover. You know, because it's a cross between a car, and a car with a hatchback.
So... just how many deaths / injuries are we talking here? Have Many died yet?
about Hondas, "why would you expect someone to pay attention when driving when they didn't pay attention why buying?' It's just sad how many people don't educate themselves on cars and instead buy a Honda.
This. Honda owners simply don't pay attention. If they did, they would have bought something else.
Wow. Jumped on the ole "throw some shade at Uber" train, did we? Dealers in the US sell cars that are under recall all the time and are not required to tell the buyer.
Why can't we go back to using jumpers to configure slot adapter cards? Why? I say!
Good point. No car enthusiast ever bought a Honda. They just have too many problems and are too expensive to keep running.
In my nearly forty years of riding motorcycles almost daily, the only four times I've been hurt were by Hondas that weren't paying attention.
Can uber hide under there not so independent contractor to get out having to pay out if some got hurt??
Use an EULA to get out of it?
and when the driver get's fired for logging dealer time as working hours and is forced to pay a lease break fee then what?
when the driver get's fired for logging dealer time as working hours
Implying Uber drivers are employees or get paid for even a second without a customer in their car. At best they have to get the car fixed on their own dime and get blacklisted when they try to get reimbursed for it.
I was talking to one, he liked uber (in fact all uber drivers I've spoken to, perhaps 5 or 6, like ubering).
He was making good money but he was working up to 14 hours a day, 7 days a week. It was his choice and apparently legal in the UK, but surely if uber can monitor his work they'd be liable if he caused an accident?
It's bloody stupid.
BeauHD really needs to be removed from the slashdot editing team, I see such regular complaints about how poor the posts he makes are that it's clear it really is an issue. No other editors/posts make so many stupid mistakes.
Has there been any other company in recent times that has had so much constant and invariably negative press?
The PR people at Uber must be wondering what they can do to help. Seems like every week there's a negative report about Uber, and almost never anything positive about them.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
Singapore is a very liberal/globalist/deepstate place and this report is specifically designed to hurt Uber simply because they promote free markets which goes against the SJW agenda. Don't believe anything "japan times" reports, they are owned by George Soros who is an avowed globalist and supporter of the CIA and NSA who hate white people and your freedom.