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> 3) The news reports - "at green light". Does that mean, even the driver was not at fault? The driver was turning right, that means the pedestrians light was
by RealGeek 13y ago
> 3) The news reports - "at green light". Does that mean, even the driver was not at fault?
The driver was turning right, that means the pedestrians light was also 'Go'. Moreover, the driver must yield pedestrians according to right of way traffic laws. So, the driver was at fault not the pedestrians.
Most likely the driver was in a hurry to pick up an Uber passenger, that means he was on Uber's duty. Uber's argument is ridiculous.
Uber should step up and do the right thing. Their drivers and cars should be covered by insurance as long as their app is being used.
- tptacek 13y agoIf the driver was hurrying to pick up an Uber passenger, that's going to surface pretty quickly in civil discovery, making it pretty silly for Uber to stake a public claim on what happened. It's probably a safer bet that he wasn't.
- skj 13y ago"Most likely the..." I don't care much one way or the other about Uber or about this case, but statements like this are a bit scary. Why would you assume? It makes it seem like you're starting at a conclusion ("Uber is at fault") and working your way back to some evidence ("Therefore the driver must have been in a hurry to pick up a passenger"). Sure, the "evidence" arrived at fits the conclusion, but that doesn't really mean anything.