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Those numbers are shocking, but meaningless without a comparison to base rate numbers prior to Uber. I have a hard time believing that Uber isn’t relatively safer than a taxi, given that every Uber ride is tracked and the police will instantly know which driver to investigate.

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I believed that too, until I worked at Uber corporate. They have a very defensive stance towards revealing driver information - They would not simply honor requests for driver information, even with warrant, and sent every such one to their legal team to fight. Not to handle - to fight.

Really? I’m not that frequent an Uber user (few times a month) but I’ve certainly encountered a different driver in a different car than what the app said. Less so in These United [sic] States than elsewhere, but I would say it happens enough where I’m not longer surprised when it does.

I think we all underestimate where USA taxi companies are with their technology if we think Uber/Lyft are the only ones who know where the cars are.

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