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I wonder how often the driver had been able to get away with this. I assume there is an accepted normal rate of passengers vomiting. Maybe something like ~5%
by ghostbrainalpha 8y ago
I wonder how often the driver had been able to get away with this.
I assume there is an accepted normal rate of passengers vomiting. Maybe something like ~5% for midnight to 6:00am rides.
If a driver goes significantly over that rate, Lyft should be able to spot that something is up way before it gets to tracking down security footage.
- anfilt 8y agoProbably depends on the area and city. For instance a college town with rides on Friday night it may be more common.
- SilasX 8y agoYeah, drivers probably try to prey on college students. But, per article, this was a 40-something clean-cut guy by himself (it said this was after his 25th high school reunion). Bad choice of target by the driver.
- ThrustVectoring 8y agoNah, the target was drunk. If it looked like they might be blacked out, it means that they don't know that they didn't vomit in the car and can't/won't fight the charge.
- jessaustin 8y agoThey have a lot of drivers. Over the whole group, someone is going to get vomit five nights in a row.
- sbinthree 8y agoNot hard to flag it for a human analyst to follow them all up in the name of good service.
- ghostbrainalpha 8y agoIt takes someone vomiting 5 nights in a row, AND more than one of those passengers disputing the drivers statements before there is a problem.
- jupp0r 8y agoProbably the rate of riders disputing the claim would be a better metric.