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Has Uber established a foothold around Hilo yet? Anyone used them?
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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...
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Lyft is also available and seems to be a little better.
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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/technolo...index.html
Creeps exploiting this unique intimate, vulnerable connection with the unknowing (transportation-less) target civilian.
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not screening their drivers well enough...
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I cannot imagine that local taxi drivers are screened much either.
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cannot imagine that local taxi drivers are screened much either.
But ... but ... they have permits, and that makes everything OK, right?