Uber, the sociopathic company full of psychopaths, now with murder! (Because regulations aren't "Disruptive" enough!)
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@anotherusername said in Uber, the sociopathic company full of psychopaths, now with murder! (Because regulations aren't "Disruptive" enough!):
The safest speed is the prevalent speed.
OK, then you've gotta drive at close to the speed of the heavily-laden 18 wheeler because there's no safe way to make that vehicle go faster, especially up or down a gradient of any note. Since that's fixed, it's obviously safest to slow everything else down.
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@dkf Here in Texas, the heavily-laden 18-wheeler is just as likely to exceed the posted speed limit as anyone else. It just takes them longer to get there.
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@dkf "prevalent speed" means the speed that most traffic is going, not the speed of the slowest vehicle. ...just in case you were serious (I fully realize that you're not).
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@polygeekery said in Uber, the sociopathic company full of psychopaths, now with murder! (Because regulations aren't "Disruptive" enough!):
@remi said in Uber, the sociopathic company full of psychopaths, now with murder! (Because regulations aren't "Disruptive" enough!):
Over here, when people complain of speed cameras being a trap to make money, they mean that the camera is not in a place with an obvious need to check speeds (e.g. not at the entrance of a town after a long straight in the countryside), or maybe that there are only 2 signs before it reminding you of the speed limit instead of tens of them, or maybe that the speed limit at the camera location is a tiny bit slower than the speed limit on the rest of the road.
If you think that speed cameras are anything more than an automated cash grab then you are delusional.
Same for the red light cameras here in houston.
The yellow light time dropped significantly when they installed them.
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- How are people supposed to know what/where "J31" is?
- What country that puts "J31" on their freeway signs also measures distance in miles?
My curiosity is piqued.
(BTW, signs around here say "Seattle, 21 minutes". Which is great. Doesn't really acknowledge that it takes 20 minutes to drive through Seattle, so I assume they're measuring from the center-most exit to Seattle and not the city's border, but who knows.)
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@blakeyrat Around here they (surprisingly) made the somewhat intelligent decision of just displaying exit numbers.
Mind you, that doesn't seem to take into account whether you've got no damned idea what exit number the place you're going to is at, but I suppose technically correct IS correct.
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@e4tmyl33t said in Uber, the sociopathic company full of psychopaths, now with murder! (Because regulations aren't "Disruptive" enough!):
@blakeyrat Around here they (surprisingly) made the somewhat intelligent decision of just displaying exit numbers.
For the estimated travel time signs?
@e4tmyl33t said in Uber, the sociopathic company full of psychopaths, now with murder! (Because regulations aren't "Disruptive" enough!):
Mind you, that doesn't seem to take into account whether you've got no damned idea what exit number the place you're going to is at, but I suppose technically correct IS correct.
In the US, exits are numbered based on the milepost (+/- a couple miles due to freeway revisions/exits being glommed up/etc. But they're usually spot-on.) So it's not a hard bit of mental math to make. Just look for the milepost you're at and do a bit of subtraction/addition.
Which means, of course, that 90% of drivers have no clue because they just turn on their GPS for ever trip and follow the friendly voice.
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@blakeyrat said in Uber, the sociopathic company full of psychopaths, now with murder! (Because regulations aren't "Disruptive" enough!):
For the estimated travel time signs?
Yep. At least the ones around my area (the one on my drive home calls out exits 168 and 150-something.)
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@blakeyrat said in Uber, the sociopathic company full of psychopaths, now with murder! (Because regulations aren't "Disruptive" enough!):
In the US, exits are numbered based on the milepost
Not all the US. For example, the New York State Thruway numbers exits regardless of milepost. This results in shit like exit X being 12 miles away from exit X+1, which is 5 miles away from X+2. Oh, and if an exit is added between X and X+1, it becomes XA - e.g., exit 16, then 16A, then 17. I guess they're obfuscating the fact that they don't charge tolls by the mile...
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@lolwhat said in Uber, the sociopathic company full of psychopaths, now with murder! (Because regulations aren't "Disruptive" enough!):
Not all the US.
Ok the GOOD non-shitty States that aren't run by retards, then.
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@Lorne-Kates said in Uber, the sociopathic company full of psychopaths, now with murder! (Because regulations aren't "Disruptive" enough!):
Remember how ever responsible company has spent the past decade or so rigorously testing automated cars-- spending MILLIONS of manhours working the AI, the systems, the safety systems? How they field test only under very controlled conditions, and working hand-in-hand with government bodies and regulators to ensure that this emergent technology is as safe as possible, with as much oversight as possible-- not only for the purposes of developing the company, but putting government and citizen fears at ease?
Yeah, we remember all that. Uber, however, is all about DISRUPTION because they're DIFFERENT and are REVOLUTIONIZING
exploiting workers like slaves, putting everyone in every major city at risk, and generally being sociopathic assholes who feel they are above the lawthe industry, yo!o wait no they're fucking asshole murderers
now with a handy list:
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@Kurt-C-Pause
The echo is strong around here
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@Luhmann said in Uber, the sociopathic company full of psychopaths, now with murder! (Because regulations aren't "Disruptive" enough!):
@Kurt-C-Pause
The echo is strong around hereThe echo is strong around here.
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@HardwareGeek The echo is strong around here.
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@heterodox
..ere..
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@Luhmann said in Uber, the sociopathic company full of psychopaths, now with murder! (Because regulations aren't "Disruptive" enough!):
@Kurt-C-Pause
The echo is strong around hereWhat echo?
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@boomzilla
What?
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@Luhmann Echo?
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@pie_flavor Oh?
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@boomzilla said in Uber, the sociopathic company full of psychopaths, now with murder! (Because regulations aren't "Disruptive" enough!):
What echo?
It's the internet. Of course there's an echo chamber here.
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ITT: "The UBER self-driving accident killed someone, but it's not murder. (Duh)"
UBER: "The self-driving accident was a mistake just like the Khashoggi murder."
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He sounds like a crime boss.
"Meh, a guy got killed. So what? Those things happens, you know."
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@Zerosquare You know, a mistake. Oops.
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@Zerosquare said in Uber, the sociopathic company full of psychopaths, now with murder! (Because regulations aren't "Disruptive" enough!):
He sounds like a crime boss.
Considering that they have been intentionally breaking the law in their mission to be "disruptive" and the first to capture the market, isn't he?
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@topspin said in Uber, the sociopathic company full of psychopaths, now with murder! (Because regulations aren't "Disruptive" enough!):
isn't he?
My god he's a white-collar gangster. More attorneys than AK-47s, but the business model is the same.
I never thought of it that way.
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@topspin: that was the subtext, yeah. To me, the incident doesn't look like a poor choice of words, but like a slip-up showing how much he doesn't give a shit.
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@topspin Well with a better US president the murder would have been a big mistake. But you got one for whom murder is OK as long as you buy millions worth of US weapons.
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@Medinoc At the risk of driving even farther into Garage territory, 1) what are you talking about? And 2) name a US President who didn't make such sales.
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@lolwhat said in Uber, the sociopathic company full of psychopaths, now with murder! (Because regulations aren't "Disruptive" enough!):
- name a US President who didn't make such sales.
Washington.
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@lolwhat said in Uber, the sociopathic company full of psychopaths, now with murder! (Because regulations aren't "Disruptive" enough!):
@Medinoc At the risk of driving even farther into Garage territory, 1) what are you talking about? And 2) name a US President who didn't make such sales.
Donald Trump explicitly invoked an ongoing arms sale to Saudi Arabia as a motive not to do anything, not even symbolic condemnation (or, say, the senate-approved withdrawal of military support), about the murder of Khashoggi.
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@Medinoc It's a thorny business, because that's been practical policy for decades, but everyone has been pretending it isn't. Partly for political reasons, and partly because 'this is not for sale' is an exceptionally good opening for negotiation.
I don't think we'll reap the consequences until the next time a strategic ally murders an American journalist, and then turns around and says '30 billion in tanks please, to go.' It'll probably be Erdogan. We'll probably sell them to him too, turn around and sell anti-tank missiles to the Kurds, and then take out an insurance policy on the tanks.
Anyway, i think it's incredibly telling that Uber's CEO thinks of Kashoggi's murder and the pedestrian death as the same phenomenon. Unless you think of both things as instances of "we are going to kill people, but we didn't consider the bad PR of this death fully", it just makes no sense whatsoever. Which, in light of 'uber cars don't recognize the existence of jaywalking as a phenomenon', well.
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@AyGeePlus said in Uber, the sociopathic company full of psychopaths, now with murder! (Because regulations aren't "Disruptive" enough!):
'30 billion in tanks please, to go.'
Only 1 tank?
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@dcon said in Uber, the sociopathic company full of psychopaths, now with murder! (Because regulations aren't "Disruptive" enough!):
@AyGeePlus said in Uber, the sociopathic company full of psychopaths, now with murder! (Because regulations aren't "Disruptive" enough!):
'30 billion in tanks please, to go.'
Only 1 tank?
It's a timeshare, actually. 30 billion gets you the 'super patriot' package, 2 weekends a month, five weekdays, and all the ammo you can fire. Enroll in our loyalty program and get a punchcard good for one (1) air strike!
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Status: Saw a TV ad for
Murder Inc.UBER. What, when did these fuckers stop being illegal around here?Oh wait, they didn’t. But who cares about court verdicts anyway.
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@levicki I guess the fax got stuck in the copier for 5 days?
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@levicki said in Uber, the sociopathic company full of psychopaths, now with murder! (Because regulations aren't "Disruptive" enough!):
@Tsaukpaetra Modern self-driving cars will have smell sensors (initially so they can smell children to warn the distracted parent that they should change their diapers), which will be software-upgraded to detect the smell of rotting flesh and drive straight to morgue while texting the emergency contacts. Problem solved.
More likely - they'll have voice id and hear the groan of someone dying, stop the car, call 911. Paramedics will open the door and find 2 (or more if @error's there) people having a little fun.
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@levicki
Well only one "point" is needed here, really
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The ride-hailing company was reaching out to drivers, like her, to notify them about a new feature called "priority mode."
"Turn on priority mode to earn more," the email boasted. When drivers opted in, it said they'd get a handful of "priority" hours per week in which they'd get more rides than drivers who weren't using the feature.
But there's a catch. In priority mode, drivers must agree to a 10% pay cut.
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@loopback0 "We'll reduce profit but make it up on volume"? Seriously?
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@Rhywden said in Uber, the sociopathic company full of psychopaths, now with murder! (Because regulations aren't "Disruptive" enough!):
@loopback0 "We'll reduce profit but make it up on volume"? Seriously?
It's a brill
iant move, since the total number of passengers stays the same. So either you get passengers and a pay cut, or somebody else does and you don't get passengers.
Perfect way to have the peasants undercut themselves.
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Also this:
"I like priority mode to the extent that it's an additional tool in my toolbox, but I don't want to be in priority mode 100% of the time," Silva said. "The real kicker would be putting me on priority and not changing the rate."
What a fool.
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@loopback0 Yeah, good news ish, but they're still playing funny games with what counts as 'time at work' to avoid actually paying people properly, even so. And they're only doing it because they lost in the courts all the way up to the last appeal.
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All of them should be in jail. But what’s going to happen? Nothing.
Reminds me, it’s been a while since I last checked if they’re still illegal in Germany, and if they’re still illegally operating anyway…
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@topspin this almost makes me want to install the app and take a ride somewhere.