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You have to solve this problem at a higher level. Why are black passengers more likely to live in poor and far away places? Obviously it will take time to reso
by hooande 6y ago
You have to solve this problem at a higher level. Why are black passengers more likely to live in poor and far away places?
Obviously it will take time to resolve that. Generations at the least. But we have to do something in the mean time, or we'll be perpetuating the negative effects of social bias. We should change the short term economics using taxes and regulation as much as possible, while clearly telling people why we're doing that.
- vmception 6y agoHonestly, Lyft and Uber mostly solved that while being completely unrelated to that specific cause. It was a “UX problem” solved by a different program.
- lazyasciiart 6y agoUnfortunately, they don't appear to have solved it at all. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/10/uber-lyft-and-the-false-promise-of-fair-rides/506000/ https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/10/uber-ly... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-22/ride-hail-racism-isn-t-gone-it-s-just-delayed https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-22/ride-hail...
- vmception 6y agothe older article is practically supplanted by the newer bloomberg article your bloomberg article starts off with nothing nearly as extreme as “at all”, specifically using “egalitarian in some ways” such as in the case of exactly the problem I detailed Introducing new problems and shifting where the bis occurs and for different populations than just people of color Thank you for the insight, good to know about. I have never thought about overlaying social causes in my profile picture at all let alone on ride hailing apps, but I can see many people doing that
- lazyasciiart 6y agoYes, they show that the problem has persisted over time. Black or Hispanic people still wait longer for a car, which is the problem you described.
- vmception 6y agoyes you're right