Summary Of The Uber Fingerprint Controversy
RHE 306 – Research Summary 1: The Uber FingerPrint Controversy
Quinton, Sophie. "How Should Uber Be Regulated?." Pew Charitable Trust’s Stateline Blog (2015).
I chose this article because Uber as a taxi services provider is currently undergoing through many scandals and one of the scandal concerns how the introduction of fingerprint screen affected them. The source is relevant as it looks into the challenges of taxi business. The database was was LexisNexus. Their article have been used by many scholars to write journals and reports so it is a credible source. The key words I used to search the topic were "Uber, ridesharing, controversy."
The author and has written for many articles and journals. The publisher is authorized to publish the article because it meets the standards and has no biases in the issue.
The writer says that the ridesharing companies namely; Lyft and Uber face a lot of challenges in the industry as most people consider them unsafe citing security issues. Sophie points that the …show more content…
What they do not consider is that while the driver may be crime free, the passengers may not and this is even a great risk even to the drivers themselves. She says that there is no evidence that sharing a taxi for economic reasons has little to do with safety because even normal taxis experience safety lapses.
The writer hails technology as one of the innovations that has quickly changed our lives as evident in the transport arena as we move around. The concept of ridesharing is pretty new but it has spread around the world very fast and has become very popular. It offers a new way to travel in big cities, using a phone application that connects the driver and the passenger via a mobile application that instantly links drivers and passengers through on phone GPS. This idea has seen Uber grow to unprecedented levels since its
Quinton, Sophie. "How Should Uber Be Regulated?." Pew Charitable Trust’s Stateline Blog (2015).
I chose this article because Uber as a taxi services provider is currently undergoing through many scandals and one of the scandal concerns how the introduction of fingerprint screen affected them. The source is relevant as it looks into the challenges of taxi business. The database was was LexisNexus. Their article have been used by many scholars to write journals and reports so it is a credible source. The key words I used to search the topic were "Uber, ridesharing, controversy."
The author and has written for many articles and journals. The publisher is authorized to publish the article because it meets the standards and has no biases in the issue.
The writer says that the ridesharing companies namely; Lyft and Uber face a lot of challenges in the industry as most people consider them unsafe citing security issues. Sophie points that the …show more content…
What they do not consider is that while the driver may be crime free, the passengers may not and this is even a great risk even to the drivers themselves. She says that there is no evidence that sharing a taxi for economic reasons has little to do with safety because even normal taxis experience safety lapses.
The writer hails technology as one of the innovations that has quickly changed our lives as evident in the transport arena as we move around. The concept of ridesharing is pretty new but it has spread around the world very fast and has become very popular. It offers a new way to travel in big cities, using a phone application that connects the driver and the passenger via a mobile application that instantly links drivers and passengers through on phone GPS. This idea has seen Uber grow to unprecedented levels since its