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The amount of money that drivers make on "vomit fraud" is going to be miniscule before the rideshare service, which is heavily incentivized to prevent it, flags

The amount of money that drivers make on "vomit fraud" is going to be miniscule before the rideshare service, which is heavily incentivized to prevent it, flags and decommissions them. Meanwhile, as a driver, you have to deal with someone vomiting in your car every few hundred rides. If it happens, you're done for the shift, and there's no making up for those lost hours. Good grief, can it suck any worse to be a driver? Public outrage is focused on the exceptional case and ignores the common case.

gruez 8y ago
>Public outrage is focused on the exceptional case and ignores the common case. and? the exceptional case is caused by malice whereas the common case isn't. that's where the outrage is from.
jackson1way 8y ago
As a passanger, I‘m expecting a ride to my destination. There are chances the driver will run into an accident, speed, drive recklessly etc. The car could be dirty or smelly, broken or old. As a passanger, I do not expect to be a victim of fraud or any other criminal act committed by the driver towards me. As a driver, my expectation from the passanger is that he will get in the car, do some small talk and get out of the car as soon as we arrive. There are chances that the passanger is sick, dirty, smelly, unpolite, unfriendly, noisy, drunk. With that comes the risk that he might mess up your car, especially if he is sick or drunk. So I think, both, the driver and the passanger know exactly what they are getting into. No need for a „oh the poor taxi drivers!!“
aeternus 8y ago
The cleaning fee is already a decent solution for the common case. It looks like these companies don't yet have a solution for the exceptional case. Relying on passengers to 'prove' the fraud and charging them $50-150 if they can't is a terrible solution.
kodablah 8y ago
Meh, that's how it is with the direction the money flows. Your complaint is a more specific version of general service industry complaints. Not that it's invalid, just not Lyft-driver specific.

gruez 8y ago

>Public outrage is focused on the exceptional case and ignores the common case. and? the exceptional case is caused by malice whereas the common case isn't. that's where the outrage is from.

jackson1way 8y ago

As a passanger, I‘m expecting a ride to my destination. There are chances the driver will run into an accident, speed, drive recklessly etc. The car could be dirty or smelly, broken or old. As a passanger, I do not expect to be a victim of fraud or any other criminal act committed by the driver towards me. As a driver, my expectation from the passanger is that he will get in the car, do some small talk and get out of the car as soon as we arrive. There are chances that the passanger is sick, dirty, smelly, unpolite, unfriendly, noisy, drunk. With that comes the risk that he might mess up your car, especially if he is sick or drunk. So I think, both, the driver and the passanger know exactly what they are getting into. No need for a „oh the poor taxi drivers!!“

aeternus 8y ago

The cleaning fee is already a decent solution for the common case. It looks like these companies don't yet have a solution for the exceptional case. Relying on passengers to 'prove' the fraud and charging them $50-150 if they can't is a terrible solution.

kodablah 8y ago

Meh, that's how it is with the direction the money flows. Your complaint is a more specific version of general service industry complaints. Not that it's invalid, just not Lyft-driver specific.