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There's research out there showing Uber has increased congestion on public roads, and I think also driven up carbon footprint per passenger. In part this is bec

There's research out there showing Uber has increased congestion on public roads, and I think also driven up carbon footprint per passenger. In part this is because it's cheaper than it should be. Incentivising less people per vehicle (taxis versus e.g. busses) is bad for society at large.

whywhywhydude 4y ago
Is there a research on how many DUI deaths and accidents Uber has prevented? How about people who didn’t buy cars because Ubering is much easier?
- arrosenberg 4y ago
  6% or ~500 lives per year according to this article (though it notes an increase in vehicle related deaths, so some of that may be cancelled by the additional road traffic) - https://qz.com/2038153/drunk-driving-deaths-dropped-as-more-americans-used-uber/ https://qz.com/2038153/drunk-driving-deaths-dropped-as-more-... Not a bad result, but probably not worth the problems that their current business model entails. There's clearly opportunities for better transportation options, they just need to make economic sense.
- duped 4y ago
  There's a lot of research and much of it is conflicting, here's two examples with vastly different conclusions https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/fullarticle/2780664 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/fullarticle/278... https://www.nber.org/papers/w29071 https://www.nber.org/papers/w29071
  - whywhywhydude 4y ago
    Both researches show benefits but the nber one somehow twists it into a different narrative. I understand why hackernews users hate uber, but shouldn’t professional economists try to be unbiased?
    - duped 4y ago
      The point of the nber study is that there's a ton of varying answers out there. If it's biased towards anything it's "good science."