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Uber on eastside yet? - Mangosteen - 05-01-2018
Has Uber established a foothold around Hilo yet? Anyone used them?
RE: Uber on eastside yet? - knieft - 05-01-2018
quote:
Originally posted by Mangosteen
Has Uber established a foothold around Hilo yet? Anyone used them?
http://www.punaweb.org/Forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=23326&SearchTerms=uber
Yes, for a while. The model doesn't work all that well for the space of Puna though...
Cheers,
Kirt
RE: Uber on eastside yet? - leilanidude - 05-01-2018
Lyft is also available and seems to be a little better.
RE: Uber on eastside yet? - ElysianWort - 05-01-2018
Uber, just in the news recently about not screening their drivers well enough, resulting in creepy rapists being your driver and thus picking up people and sexually assaulting them.
http://money.cnn.com/2018/04/30/technology/uber-driver-sexual-assault/index.html
Creeps exploiting this unique intimate, vulnerable connection with the unknowing (transportation-less) target civilian.
RE: Uber on eastside yet? - leilanidude - 05-02-2018
not screening their drivers well enough...
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I cannot imagine that local taxi drivers are screened much either.
RE: Uber on eastside yet? - kalakoa - 05-02-2018
cannot imagine that local taxi drivers are screened much either.
But ... but ... they have permits, and that makes everything OK, right?