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Uber has filed a patent to determine if passengers are drunk and refuse service
- gcommer 8y agoWow, not only is the article title completely fake, but they even linked to the wrong patent. Real patent is here: http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=20180157984.PGNR.inpu http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=... It looks like the main data points the system uses are time and location occurrence with previous outings, and characteristics of how they interact with the app, specifically text input.
- jaspax 8y agoWhy would they use this data to refuse to carry the passengers? Don't we want drunks on public transit and not driving their own cars?