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Did someone say no one should pay for the traffic jam? What no one ends up paying for when incentives are aligned however, is taking the tourist from the airpo
by BoorishBears 6y ago
Did someone say no one should pay for the traffic jam?
What no one ends up paying for when incentives are aligned however, is taking the tourist from the airport on an unsolicited tour of the city rather than directly to their destination.
Or the taxi driver who accidentally ends up on that one road that always has an idiot who caused a fatality when there were others that were less busy at the time.
_That_ is what most people are worried about, not having to reimburse someone for an unforeseen circumstance.
- WWLink 6y agoI'd rather pay a little more than have the driver risk their life and my life because waze told them they can make a left turn on a 45mph street across 4 lanes of traffic with nothing more than a stop sign and save half a minute.
- BoorishBears 6y agoNot wanting to die is kind of something that one doesn't tie to their mode of payment... Not to mention ridesharing apps have incentivized safer driving with their review systems much more than taxi drivers who generally felt they were beholden to no one or "their own" (which is why they felt comfortable doing things like taking people on joyrides) ever did There's a lot of ambiguity about accident rates when a passenger is not in the vehicle with an Uber driver, but the rates for actual trips are lower than national averages: https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/05/ubers-fatal-accident-tally-shows-low-rates-but-excludes-key-numbers/ https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/05/ubers-fatal-accident-tally...