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It's good for the driver to confirm they have the right riders. And for riders to know that the driver is not just pretending to be an Uber driver in order to d

It's good for the driver to confirm they have the right riders. And for riders to know that the driver is not just pretending to be an Uber driver in order to drive away and rob the rider.

meindnoch 4y ago
If only we had human-readable identifiers on each and every car... Maybe we could put these identifiers on the outside surface of the car, so that the user can verify their identity without getting into the car and risk getting kidnapped. Any VCs here want to fund this idea??
- taneq 4y ago
  They’d need to be regulated by some central governing agency though…
  - meindnoch 4y ago
    We'll put it on The Blockchain!
    - xpe 4y ago
      And then some US states could decide whether to require placement of the Blockchain ID on the front bumper. (Ah yes, states, the laboratories of democracy in our federalist system.) > The phrase "laboratories of democracy" is often attributed to Justice Louis D. Brandeis, who served on the United States Supreme Court from 1916 to 1939. In a dissenting opinion in the case of New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann (1932), Brandeis wrote: > "It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country." (the previous two paragraphs via ChatGPT 3.5., verified by me) I would like to add the preceding sentence in the above quote from Brandeis’ dissent because it gives more context: > “To stay experimentation in things social and economic is a grave responsibility. Denial of the right to experiment may be fraught with serious consequences to the nation.”
      - Spooky23 4y ago
        Yes. New Jersey has embarked on the courageous step of allowing shell companies to issue temporary tags, allowing criminals, cops and others to evade tolls, automated enforcement and pervasive LPR surveillance in New York.
NoZebra120vClip 4y ago
One day I was walking down the boulevard (in a tie-dye rainbow shirt - perhaps this had something to do with it) and I only had two blocks to go to the post office. Homeboy comes to a stop in an old and busted car, and he hollers out "Hey, I'm ... like, a Uber... you wanna ride somewhere?" and I had a lasting creepy feeling that that would happen in broad daylight. I mean, I'm sure homeboy just wanted me to hand over a few bucks in cash for an easy ride, but imagine the suckers and predators that could be brought together by fake Uber.

It's good for the driver to confirm they have the right riders. And for riders to know that the driver is not just pretending to be an Uber driver in order to drive away and rob the rider.

meindnoch 4y ago

If only we had human-readable identifiers on each and every car... Maybe we could put these identifiers on the outside surface of the car, so that the user can verify their identity without getting into the car and risk getting kidnapped. Any VCs here want to fund this idea??

taneq 4y ago
They’d need to be regulated by some central governing agency though…
- meindnoch 4y ago
  We'll put it on The Blockchain!
  - xpe 4y ago
    And then some US states could decide whether to require placement of the Blockchain ID on the front bumper. (Ah yes, states, the laboratories of democracy in our federalist system.) > The phrase "laboratories of democracy" is often attributed to Justice Louis D. Brandeis, who served on the United States Supreme Court from 1916 to 1939. In a dissenting opinion in the case of New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann (1932), Brandeis wrote: > "It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country." (the previous two paragraphs via ChatGPT 3.5., verified by me) I would like to add the preceding sentence in the above quote from Brandeis’ dissent because it gives more context: > “To stay experimentation in things social and economic is a grave responsibility. Denial of the right to experiment may be fraught with serious consequences to the nation.”
    - Spooky23 4y ago
      Yes. New Jersey has embarked on the courageous step of allowing shell companies to issue temporary tags, allowing criminals, cops and others to evade tolls, automated enforcement and pervasive LPR surveillance in New York.

NoZebra120vClip 4y ago

One day I was walking down the boulevard (in a tie-dye rainbow shirt - perhaps this had something to do with it) and I only had two blocks to go to the post office. Homeboy comes to a stop in an old and busted car, and he hollers out "Hey, I'm ... like, a Uber... you wanna ride somewhere?" and I had a lasting creepy feeling that that would happen in broad daylight. I mean, I'm sure homeboy just wanted me to hand over a few bucks in cash for an easy ride, but imagine the suckers and predators that could be brought together by fake Uber.