> You need to know that I was in their vehicle, otherwise how can they charge me if I ruin their car. You need to know they were my driver.
How did taxi drivers handle that for the last nearing 100 years? People before us managed sticky situations without destroying human civilization, so can we.
That's similarly how we'd order products, out of magazines. Only in that case on the paper we'd include things like our bank account information that we'd put in the unlocked box in our yard.
I'm not suggesting that things can't or shouldn't be better. I think it's just important to have a realistic perspective on where we are in this continuum of service vs privacy.
Well, some of them are illegal for the aggrieved party to employ, and in any case not providing better options than that list, for a party facilitating and profiting from the transaction, who is thus not an uninvolved third party, will greatly increase the risk of legal liability and PR damage.
They used specially-built cars with plexiglass barriers and uncomfortable thick vinyl covered seats that could be easily replaced.