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> Car2Go sent several workers to retrieve the vehicles, only to find that a group of thieves had claimed them as their own. Some blocked the vehicles in to prev
by orthoxerox 7y ago
> Car2Go sent several workers to retrieve the vehicles, only to find that a group of thieves had claimed them as their own. Some blocked the vehicles in to prevent repossession; others threatened the company’s employees, according to someone with knowledge of the situation who spoke on condition of anonymity.
How come they haven't contacted the police immediately after that?
Also, they mentioned that people sublet their cars at inflated prices. This means they don't have the most basic foreground checks in place. Here in Moscow carsharing companies have cameras in their cars and the face of the driver is compared with the photo ID they have provided. I think it also tracks unsafe behavior, like holding a phone to talk or text.
If they really relaxed their checks to the point where a single credit card was all that was needed, they brought this upon themselves.
- icelancer 7y ago>> How come they haven't contacted the police immediately after that? This happened in Chicago. Police response times are... more than a little slow.
- empath75 7y agoI definitely would have said no if my boss told me to go reclaim a car from a ring of Chicago car thieves.
- linuxftw 7y agoWhy should the police respond when you're being clearly negligent. It's not societies problem you car was stolen, it's your own stupid fault in this case. As we learned in another thread here on HN (some photo equipment sharing site), this is a case of 'voluntary parting' in which the cars weren't necessarily stolen, they were obtained fraudulently, which apparently is a civil matter.
- CPLX 7y ago> Why should the police respond when you're being clearly negligent. The purpose of the police is to maintain order and enforce personal and property rights, not to educate the population on concepts of responsibility.
- nabnob 7y agoFrom personal experience driving for Uber, I've noticed that facial recognition technology isn't that accurate if you're not white.
- woodrowbarlow 7y agodoes uber use facial recognition in vehicles? can you expand on that? in my city i haven't seen any evidence of facial recognition in uber/lyft vehicles.
- rnotaro 7y agoProbably when verifying the driver's information. Not the riders.
- orthoxerox 7y agoDon't they use Mechanical Turks as a fallback?