Uber is up, rankings are down and Elon appears ahead. AuthorizedRideshare breaks it down.
HERide appears out for security, one Uber drivers not going to the canine, and placing your Tesla to work. This Week in Rideshare has all of it!
MONDAY 8/1/22
A visually impaired lady with a service animal was denied Uber rides. KDVR explains:
When Licon orders an Uber, she normally will get a trip. But on one trip again in May, she was denied service by a driver who argued she might solely order a trip by “Uber Pet.”
“Which is incorrect, Uber Pet is set up for riders to bring their pets. However, my service dog is a service dog, therefore I’m allowed to bring her anywhere that has public access,” Licon stated.
Another driver noticed her along with her information canine and simply drove off.
Another incident concerned an Uber driver blaming Melisa and her canine for making a large number in the automobile.
“It turns out that the driver had charged an enormous cleaning fee for his car,” Licon stated.
That price her about $150, a price just lately refunded by Uber.
TUESDAY 5/2/22
In gentle of the rising studies of sexual assault, a Lyft driver began a rideshare app only for girls. MSNBC reported:
That’s why after listening to tales of assault and harassment from feminine rideshare passengers and drivers alike, former basketball participant and Lyft driver Jillian Anderson co-founded HERide, a female-centric driving app working in Atlanta, Georgia.
HERide, which started beta testing in March this yr, employs solely feminine drivers. In flip, any passenger can use the app, however drivers have the fitting to disclaim rides to anybody who offers them unsafe vibes — a profit they don’t take pleasure in on the most important apps, in accordance with Anderson.
HERide hit hurdles getting off the bottom throughout the pandemic, stated Anderson, however as we speak, there are 73 unbiased contractor drivers on the app. With three employees members on payroll, HERide has delivered 500 rides up to now whole in the Atlanta space. Anderson stated HERide expenses passengers comparable charges to Lyft and Uber in Atlanta. However, HERide takes 20 % of income from every trip, whereas Lyft and Uber have been identified to take bigger chunks in main cities — together with 48 % in San Francisco.
WEDNESDAY 5/3/22
The variety of Uber drivers has gotten a lift. BBC reported:
Almost 5 million individuals are actually selecting up passengers or making meals deliveries for the corporate, 31% greater than final yr, boss Dara Khosrowshahi stated.
Uber stated there have been 1.87 billion journeys on the platform in the April-June interval — a mean of roughly 21 million per day — up 24% from final yr, and 12% greater than have been taken in 2019 earlier than the pandemic hit.
The rise in demand helped push gross bookings up 33% to $29.1bn (£24bn)
THURSDAY 5/4/22
Gig staff have a brand new boss: rankings. Forbes India reported:
What these platforms have created, in impact, is a system the place the normal position of the supervisor has been totally outsourced to clients and their star-based rankings. As Rahman and his colleague, Lindsey Cameron at Wharton, write in a brand new paper, “the rise of this algorithmically mediated customer control to monitor and evaluate individuals has effectively given many workers a new, digital ‘boss.’”
The researchers divided the gig employee–buyer interplay into three phases — earlier than, throughout, and after the duty — and discovered that every stage generated distinct types of employee actions supposed to recuperate a few of their management over the method of being rated.
With every subsequent stage, staff’ capability to withstand unfair rankings diminished, the researchers discovered. And efforts to stay vigilant over a protracted service encounter and attempt to preserve excessive rankings contributed to emotions of fatigue amongst staff.
FRIDAY 8/5/22
Telsa’s robotaxis might be the following Uber / Airbnb combo. Or so Elon Musk thinks. NY Post added:
When Tesla’s Full Self-Driving is totally operation, Musk stated Tesla house owners could have the selection of utilizing it themselves or including their vehicles to the robotaxi fleet to earn cash when they don’t want them.
“I think it would end up being some kind of combination of like Airbnb and Uber.”
“Look at how many cars are parked. There are parking lots full of cars everywhere. Because cars need a driver, so most of the time they’re doing nothing,” Musk stated.
Musk estimated {that a} typical automobile added to the system would see its utilization leap from 12 hours every week to 60 hours every week and turn out to be a income generator.
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