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  1. "Taxi driver used to be one of the country’s most dangerous professions. Uber changed that. I don’t know my Uber driver, but the rules and the technology lets us both be confident that neither of us will cheat or attack each other. We are both under constant surveillance, and we are competing for star rankings."

    #BruceSchneier, 2025

    schneier.com/academic/archives

    I have a few questions about this, which reads like reputation laundering for Uber.

    (1/?)

    #Uber #RideSharing #SocialTrust

  2. "Taxi driver used to be one of the country’s most dangerous professions. Uber changed that. I don’t know my Uber driver, but the rules and the technology lets us both be confident that neither of us will cheat or attack each other. We are both under constant surveillance, and we are competing for star rankings."

    #BruceSchneier, 2025

    schneier.com/academic/archives

    I have a few questions about this, which reads like reputation laundering for Uber.

    (1/?)

    #Uber #RideSharing #SocialTrust

  3. "In the 12 years since it began collecting the annual reports from each firm, the commission has released only those for 2020 and 2021, which contain numerous redactions and inconsistently collected assault information" #ridesharing sfpublicpress.org/california-r

  4. "In the 12 years since it began collecting the annual reports from each firm, the commission has released only those for 2020 and 2021, which contain numerous redactions and inconsistently collected assault information" #ridesharing sfpublicpress.org/california-r

  5. Traffic noises are deafening. My brain freezes whenever I leave the house. Never you mind the amount of pollution and heat that it generates.

    Why would you create cities like that? A world like that? What's wrong with you?

    #WarOnCars #Pollution #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #StopFossils #CleanEnergy #ProtectNature #ElNino #SaveThePlanet #PublicTransportation #RideHailing #RideSharing

  6. Traffic noises are deafening. My brain freezes whenever I leave the house. Never you mind the amount of pollution and heat that it generates.

    Why would you create cities like that? A world like that? What's wrong with you?

    #WarOnCars #Pollution #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #StopFossils #CleanEnergy #ProtectNature #ElNino #SaveThePlanet #PublicTransportation #RideHailing #RideSharing

  7. There is no such thing as road rage, only shitty individuals that have no business driving on public roads and endangering others.

    Walk, bike, use Public Transportation, hail a ride, or share a ride. Nobody wants you on the road. Nobody.

    #PublicTransportation #RoadSafety #Walk #Bike #RideHailing #RideSharing #Tuesday

  8. There is no such thing as road rage, only shitty individuals that have no business driving on public roads and endangering others.

    Walk, bike, use Public Transportation, hail a ride, or share a ride. Nobody wants you on the road. Nobody.

    #PublicTransportation #RoadSafety #Walk #Bike #RideHailing #RideSharing #Tuesday

  9. My Bolt driver was complaining about his job. He said he wanted out. I politely asked him what had caused such a change. He answered with a straight face:

    "The people."

    #Ridesharing
    #Alternative #Transportation #Thursday

  10. My Bolt driver was complaining about his job. He said he wanted out. I politely asked him what had caused such a change. He answered with a straight face:

    "The people."

    #Ridesharing
    #Alternative #Transportation #Thursday

  11. alojapan.com/1401238/new-touri New tourism minister calls concentration of tourists in certain areas ‘very serious’ #JapanTourism #mlit #NipponIshinNoKai #overtourism #RideSharing #tourism #YasushiKaneko New tourism minister Yasushi Kaneko has voiced concerns about overtourism and the negative impact on the country from the large influx of foreign tourists. The concentration of foreign visitors in certain regions is “very serious,” Kaneko, who was tapped to his

  12. What I dislike terribly about ridesharing is the dynamic pricing system.

    "Pay less when nobody's using our service."

    What? I don't get it. 🤷‍♂️

    #ridesharing #gigeconomy #dynamicpricing

  13. What I dislike terribly about ridesharing is the dynamic pricing system.

    "Pay less when nobody's using our service."

    What? I don't get it. 🤷‍♂️

    #ridesharing #gigeconomy #dynamicpricing

  14. Is ridesharing something you use often or just when going to a concert or the movies or stuff like that?

    #ridesharing #gigeconomy #transportation

  15. Is ridesharing something you use often or just when going to a concert or the movies or stuff like that?

    #ridesharing #gigeconomy #transportation

  16. Hat zufällig jemand Erfahrungen, wie man beim #RideSharing #Freenow seinen Account löschen lassen kann, ohne die App erneut zu installieren? Die Websiten sind Dark Pattern des Grauens.

  17. @nwchapman And this is announced right after #CBS did a glamor segment on their news doc program #SundayMorning promoting #Waymo this past weekend . . . 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

    I'm not a Luddite but I am one of those who say they'll never use an #AutomomousVehicle or #SelfDrivingCar no matter how safe they say they are.

    There are other options & if I need to get somewhere & I can't use my own car to do so, I'll #Walk and/or take #PublicTransit and/or #RideSharing and/or #Uber or #Lyft instead. 🤷‍♂️

  18. "Helsinki’s transportation board has released an Uber-like app, which, instead of dispatching an individual car, coördinates multiple requests for nearby destinations, pools passengers, and allows them to share a much cheaper ride on a minibus."

    #EvegenyMorozov, 2014

    newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10

    Anyone know of this is still a thing?

    #Helsinki #RideSharing #Uber

  19. "Helsinki’s transportation board has released an Uber-like app, which, instead of dispatching an individual car, coördinates multiple requests for nearby destinations, pools passengers, and allows them to share a much cheaper ride on a minibus."

    #EvegenyMorozov, 2014

    newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10

    Anyone know of this is still a thing?

    #Helsinki #RideSharing #Uber