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I think the answer is more that Uber has externalized the cost of all that waste. Why do they care about increased traffic and increased pollution if they aren
by mrgoldenbrown 2y ago
I think the answer is more that Uber has externalized the cost of all that waste.
Why do they care about increased traffic and increased pollution if they aren't the ones hiring extra staties to manage the chaos?
- lxgr 2y agoGiven that Uber isn't charging (and by extension isn't earning anything) on the time drivers spend to get to the pick up point, I doubt that they don't have any economic interest in doing something better than the status quo. I think this really is an artifact of the taxi medallion system which regulates private car transportation differently depending on the way you hail it, for largely historical reasons. (Taxis that you can just flag down used to be much more profitable, to the point where a license for that used to go for more than a million USD in NYC.)