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Editor’s note: This article is from WeChat public account “Prisma” (ID: lengjing_qqfinance) , author Silicon released, edited Zhang Qingning.
On August 8, local time in New York, US Uber (Uber) issued its second quarterly earnings report, the net loss increased from $1,034 million in the first quarter to $5.236 billion.
As the “global network car first”, Uber is hard to say, after the listing on the NYSE, Uber drivers broke the scandal.
CNN Cable News reporters pretended to be passengers. When investigating the network car, they found that the Somali war criminal Yusuf Abdi Ali had sneaked into the United States and quietly opened Uber.
Yusuf Abdi Ali served in the Somali Army and served as a colonel. In the civil war in Somalia, he and his fifth brigade were involved in the execution of mass shootings, as well as a series of acts of torture, including: tying people to trees to burn alive, letting military vehicles drag and tear people into pieces, etc. .
In Uber’s driver rating system, Ali scored a high score of 4.89, and even when Uber went public, it was named Uber’s “Diamond Driver.”
This scandal is just the tip of the iceberg.
In May 2018, CNN published a series of survey results on the US domestic network, the relevant data is as follows:
Between 2015 and 2018, there were at least 103 Uber drivers in the United States accused of sexually assaulting or sexually abusing passengers. Among them, at least 31 drivers were found guilty, ranging from forcible contact, illegal imprisonment to rape.
There are dozens of criminal and civil cases that remain unresolved.
In addition, Uber’s largest competitor in the United States, Lyft, although carrying a small scale, in 2015-2018, 18 drivers were also accused of sexual assault and sexual abuse.
According to the case disclosed by CNN, it is also very scary.
One of them is this: A female passenger sits on a Uber car and is ready to go home. She was drunk and drunk. When the rear seat fainted and recovered consciousness, the driver climbed onto her. This place is not far from the female passenger’s home, and she escaped and called the 911 police.
According to the information presented after the police:
The driver’s home computer contains videos of rape and abuse of adolescents, recording the crimes he committed five years ago. In November 2017, the driver was raped by Uber passengers.Sentenced 80 years in prison.
Uber and other network car platforms, hiding so many criminals, how to protect the safety of passengers?
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It should be noted that the data disclosed by CNN are only data obtained by CNN for police reports, federal court records and county court database surveys in 20 major US cities, and are not disclosed by Uber or Lyft. .
In other words: If it is the latter, the number may be more.
According to the report, in addition to rape, there are many incredible cases, including: the driver locks the passenger in the car with an electronic lock; beats and rapes the elderly woman; the driver forces the female passenger to drink his urine, and many more.
On the evening of May 5, 2018, there was a bad news in China on the other side of the ocean.
After the flight, Li Mingzhu called a car in the Zhengzhou Airport District to rush to the city through the drip, and was killed by the driver.
On the 8th, when Li Mingzhu’s body was found, he found many knives in his body. Subsequently, Didi Company publicly collected clues from the whole society to find a rider named Liu Zhenhua.
At 4:30 in the morning on the 12th, the police recovered a body in a river channel near the West Third Ring Road in Zhengzhou City. Through the identification of DNA samples, Liu Zhenhua, the criminal suspect of the corpse system, was confirmed.
This incident immediately led to a large-scale discussion. According to a member of the judiciary afterwards:
The number of criminal cases derived from other dripping car owners is actually much higher than public perception. In fact, the driver killing incident is not the first time. The case of intentional injury caused by the owner and passengers due to disputes and squabbles belongs to the highest number of crimes committed by the owner of the vehicle. Taxi, special vehicles, rides, and drivers are involved.
These vicious incidents point to the fact that:
Uber, Lyft or Didi is just a platform, an “instrumental” existence, anything happening on this platform or tool, but a refraction of human nature.
Humanity does not make a difference because it is a “new thing.”
In other words: “crime” happens anywhere in the world: in a taxi, in a hotel, on a road, or even between acquaintances. In fact, the taxi platform does not have the ability to ensure the absolute safety of passengers. In particular, the network car as a commercial organization has the nature of cost compression (time cost and economic cost) and profit-seeking (driver and time are scarce resources).
Under such a premise, the most important thing is to identify which strategies are most effective in preventing violence or sexual assaults, especially what the US legislators and network car companies can bring to the Chinese network car platform. .
Legislators emphasize “transparency” and “sharing”
In May 2018, CNN’s report quickly came to the desk of US legislators.
US lawmakers have asked Internet car companies to provide answers to some questions. Some of the concerns about the questions are very interesting: Has the network car platform retained the record of drivers accused of sexual or sexual discrimination? And, have these driver information been made public (to prevent other passengers from encountering similar situations)?
In other words, US legislators believe that drivers with such records should not talk about personal privacy.
In the United States, the information system of sexual assaulters is open to the public. Anyone can check whether they have sex in the vicinity of their homes to decide whether they want to buy a house or go to school here. For a long time, the United States has established a history of sexual assault databases. Once a sexual assault is registered, it will be as short as 5 years, and if it is long, it will not be delisted.
US legislators are also concerned about information sharing on the platform.
For example, there are often drivers who serve multiple taxi platforms at the same time. Then, if a driver on the A platform has a record of sexual violence or sexual discrimination, will the A platform share the driver information of these problems with other B, C, and D taxi platforms?
It can be seen that US legislators contain two important elements in the direction of the solution, namely the “openness” and “sharing” of information.
Under pressure, Uber and Lyft quickly introduced a series of policy changes. Some of them are also useful for domestic purposes, including:
First, both companies announced that they would abandon the arbitration agreement on sexual violence or sexual harassment.
The so-called arbitration system means that the parties to the dispute reach an agreement and voluntarily submit the dispute to a third-party arbitration institution to make a ruling according to certain procedural rules and fair principles, and the parties are obliged to perform the ruling.
Before, the US Internet car usually listed this clause as a User Terms of Service. That is to say: once you become a user of the platform, you waive your right to sue in open court by default.
But now, both Uber and Lyft have corrected the scope of the arbitration agreement and amended it to be – in the event of a dispute related to sexual violence or sexual abuse or sexual discrimination, the parties have the right to bypass the taxi platform and choose to Prosecution in open court or anywhere else.
This means that there are more ways for victims to resolve disputes.
Uber explained this: “We are not saying that the arbitration agreement is not good. In fact, it is an effective form of settlement of disputes, but we have made this decision.