The CPUC rejected Uber’s complaints and demanded immediate data delivery compliance.īoth Uber and Lyft have been sued for allegedly denying service to passengers with wheelchairs, riders with guide dogs, and blind people. Since September, Uber has called many of the CPUC’s data demands “unduly burdensome, cumulative and overly broad.” The company also complained that producing certain data would disclose of some of the company’s trade secrets. But those Uber entrepreneurs have little or no interest picking up rides from poor people in dangerous neighborhoods.
But the entrepreneurial drivers are not interested in subsidizing Uber’s legal and regulatory requirements to provide “equal access” for the disabled by purchasing a $60,000 wheelchair accessible vehicle.Īs entrepreneurs, driver’s want to “contract” with Uber to service peak demand hours around high-volume area zip codes. Uber drivers generally do believe that they are making a profit by “sharing” their own personal vehicles and paying for their own gasoline. Uber also avoids paying employee benefits that cost an average of $10.61-an-hour, according to the U.S. Uber’s business model is to keep 20 percent of all “fares” by recruiting contract drivers, advertising that they can make $18-an-hour using their own car as an on-call limo, versus about $8-an-hour as a taxi driving employee.īy turning employees into entrepreneurial “gig” workers, Uber saves about a 30 percent mark-up by eliminating Social Security and Medicare taxes, as well as unemployment and workers’ compensation insurance.
The 2013 California settlement set a standard for similar legal and regulatory agreements for ride-sharing companies operating in major cities such as Washington D.C., New York City, and Boston.īut Judge Mason’s 96-page decision states that while Uber provided some information, it failed to comply fully with requirements for reports in three areas: the number of driver accidents and amount sof compensation paid the number of rides requested within each zip code, and how many were accepted or rejected and the number of requests for accessible vehicles by wheelchair users and blind people with service dogs, and how many of those requests were accepted.
Uber also agreed to provide detailed reporting regarding the number of requests for rides from people with service animals or wheelchairs how many such rides were completed and other ride-logging information such as date, time, zip code and fare paid.