Instacart consumers are fed up, ladies are fending for themselves, and Lyft makes an enormous donation. AuthorizedRideshare breaks it down.
Hackers are hacking, consumers try to buy, and ladies are being put in harmful conditions. It’s all right here in This Week in Rideshare.
MONDAY 1/17/22
One Instacart shopper had sufficient after getting hit with 1-star critiques. Mother Jones added:
When there aren’t too many constructive issues to share about your day by day work expertise, that’s simply not one thing you wish to regularly burden your associate with. If somebody provides you a tiny praise in a ranking and it’s your work accomplishment for the week, it feels reasonably pathetic. It simply turns into an remoted, irritating ball of stress. When I don’t should do it, I’ll by no means look again. I’ll by no means open the app.
TUESDAY 1/18/22
Women drivers are being left to fend for themselves. The Verge reported:
In interviews with over 25 feminine rideshare drivers throughout the nation, their experiences differ, from having passengers flirt with them, solicit them for intercourse, or making undesirable advances towards them. Many stated they’ve taken to carrying pepper spray or different defensive weapons in their automobiles in defiance of the app firm’s insurance policies banning such gadgets. All of the drivers stated that they don’t really feel utterly protected or supported by the businesses on whose platforms they conduct their enterprise.
“It just feels like they don’t care about our safety,” stated one driver.
WEDNESDAY 1/19/22
Hackers are at it once more and focusing on Uber drivers. Local 10 News reported:
Carvalho stated he assumed it was a brand new Uber safety characteristic and entered his code. It was a trick and the hackers took over his account. The Uber driver by no means arrived and they stole $200.
“I always said I would never fall for it, and you know, of course, I’m running last minute to the airport, I’m trying to get there, I just want the car to get there,” Carvalho stated.
At first, the motive force who accepted his journey despatched him a message asking for his cellphone quantity. He didn’t assume a lot of it and disclosed it as a result of discovering his high-rise constructing on Biscayne Boulevard will be difficult. He obtained a textual content message with a 4-digit safety code that gave the impression to be from Uber and one other message from the motive force by the app.
THURSDAY 1/20/22
Lyft simply dumped the biggest, one-time political donation in Massachusetts ever. Boston Globe reported:
The rideshare large Lyft gave a whopping $14.4 million to a committee supporting the petitions, most of which got here in a $13 million donation on Dec. 30, newly launched information present. The single contribution is the very best the state Office of Campaign and Political Finance has ever listed in an internet database that tracks reported donations to campaigns, poll query coalitions, or different political committees regulated underneath state regulation.
FRIDAY 1/21/22
Amazon supply vans hold getting caught in the snow and the prices are hitting drivers and fleet homeowners. Vice reported:
Motherboard spoke to 3 different present and former homeowners of Amazon supply firms who stated that in the winter months, they ceaselessly name tow vehicles to rescue Amazon supply vans and drivers that get caught in the snow. While it’s frequent for automobiles to get caught in the snow through the winter months, Amazon supply firm homeowners stated that the vans they’re required to make use of are notably susceptible to this downside, and that they should spend hundreds of {dollars} out of their very own pocket towing them out.
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