Uber on eastside yet?

[Mangosteen]

Has Uber established a foothold around Hilo yet? Anyone used them?

[knieft]

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Originally posted by Mangosteen

Has Uber established a foothold around Hilo yet? Anyone used them?

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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

[leilanidude]

Lyft is also available and seems to be a little better.

[ElysianWort]

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.

[leilanidude]

not screening their drivers well enough...
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I cannot imagine that local taxi drivers are screened much either.

[kalakoa]

cannot imagine that local taxi drivers are screened much either.

But ... but ... they have permits, and that makes everything OK, right?