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Killing the Middlemen in the Rideshare Industry (www.hamiltonnolan.com)

submitted 7 months ago by psychothumbs@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I wonder if a P2P ride-sharing system could be made to work. Or if it would be rife with scams and dangers.

[–] Asudox@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Anything is bad. Just like how Uber is shit today, P2P won't be any different. A system where everyone can advertise themselves as a taxi is unnecessarily dangerous. Just use regular normal taxi. Anyone can become a taxi in that system, and that's bad.

[–] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Normal taxi still refuse to not be disgusting inside and 20 year old cars with drivers who don't turn on the ac. Not everyone lives in a global city.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Considering Uber is already pretty bad, take a guess.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Idk, considering everyone's parents said never to get into a car with a stranger and they have like somewhere close to fifth sigma error levels in safety, it seems more safe than people would assume. Considering the rumor is you need almost no background check to do it.

Generally speaking, ridesharing is more than 99.99 percent safe whether you’re using Uber or Lyft. However, issues do occur. In 2019 and 2020, for example, there were over 4,800 safety incidents during U.S. Lyft and Uber rides.1 But out of billions of trips total, these companies have safety incident rates of 0.0005 percent and 0.0003 percent...