• The Rideshare Economy

  • Sep 25 2020
  • Length: 57 mins
  • Podcast

  • Summary

  • Hack Fort Worth security meetup:

    https://twitter.com/hack_ftw

    Coverage of the California ruling on classifying drivers, actually names the case and court, unlike most of the mainstream coverage:

    https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/appellate-court-grants-uber-and-lyft-94727/

    California Federation of Labor on Prop 22, the referendum by Uber, Lyft and Door Dash intended to keep people as contractors:

    https://calaborfed.org/no-on-prop-22-faq/

    Gig Workers Rising, a group organizing gig workers:

    https://gigworkersrising.org/

    Piece on fight over Finger printing of drivers in Texas:

    https://www.zdnet.com/article/uber-lyft-return-to-austin-as-texas-fingerprint-rule-dismissed/

    Piece that discusses the changes of the value of a taxi medallion in Chicago:

    https://chicagodispatcher.com/why-you-should-not-buy-a-chicago-taxi-medallion/

    Fine from FTC for Uber for lying about how much drivers would actually make:

    Press release from FTC:

    https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2017/01/uber-agrees-pay-20-million-settle-ftc-charges-it-recruited

    Article discussing fine:

    https://qz.com/890139/uber-is-paying-the-ftc-20-million-for-misleading-drivers-about-how-much-they-really-make/

    Article on Travis Kalanick, the founder and former CEO:

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-01-18/the-fall-of-travis-kalanick-was-a-lot-weirder-and-darker-than-you-thought

     

    Uber's court battles in London:

    2019 BBC piece on it

    https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50544283

     

    Forbes Piece on it from July 2020:

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddawkins/2020/07/30/uber-vs-london--the-courtroom-battle-the-world-is-watching/

     

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    Greyball 

    Report from the Portland Bureau of Transportation 

    https://www.londonreconnections.com/wp-content/uploads/GreyballAudit.pdf

    New York Times piece breaking the investigation:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/technology/uber-greyball-program-evade-authorities.html

    Refusal to prosecute by Portland

    https://pamplinmedia.com/pt/9-news/372342-256360-no-penalties-for-ubers-efforts-to-evade-regulations

    Uber corporate "update" on Greyball:

    https://www.uber.com/newsroom/an-update-on-greyballing

     

    (Daniel) I somehow still can't find the piece on the head of VW research claiming we might never reach full driverless cars.  Listeners, I am frustrated.

     

    What did Daniel Get wrong in this episode?

    Turns out that the study I started to quote on wages for drivers from MIT was withdrawn under scrutiny. Here is a link discussing that:

    https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/07/591430857/researcher-says-criticism-is-valid-will-revise-study-finding-low-uber-and-lyft-p

     

     

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