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Uber loses licence to operate in London, will still operate while appealing

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256 points reubensutton | 3 comments | 25 Nov 19 10:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.688s | source
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dominotw ◴[25 Nov 19 14:04 UTC] No.21628168[source]▶
>At least 14,000 trips involved drivers who weren’t who the riders thought they were,

any idea what the source of this info is?

And not sure what the timeframe here is. Is it 14000 since Uber started operating in london?

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fauigerzigerk ◴[25 Nov 19 14:28 UTC] No.21628364[source]▶
The number comes from Cognizant who were hired to conduct an independent review [1]. They found that 43 drivers out of 45,000 drivers skirted Uber's identity checks committing identity fraud.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/78827b06-0f6a-11ea-a225-db2f231cf...

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1. dominotw ◴[25 Nov 19 14:35 UTC] No.21628420[source]▶
ok thank you.

I don't have FT subscription. But 43 out of 45k drivers seems like a pretty good number, certainly not a ban worthy number.

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2. VBprogrammer ◴[25 Nov 19 14:48 UTC] No.21628511[source]▶
Yes, you can tell that someone is trying to make it sound bad by using the inflated 'trips' figure rather than number of drivers. This is mostly the fall out of political pressure from black cab drivers and their associations.

I'm certainly not keen on Ubers business practices, it's lacklustre approach to safety and poor record when it comes to employment regulations. However I think acceptance that the taxi industry has been changed forever will come eventually, these luddite challenges will eventually be forgotten and we'll all move on with our lives.

If we're lucky Uber will crash and burn and someone will pickup the baton, ideally in a more fair and sustainable way.

3. fauigerzigerk ◴[25 Nov 19 16:38 UTC] No.21629850[source]▶
There are some other accusations as well and it actually says "at least 43" so that could be open ended. I guess they found 43 and weren't sure if there were others they hadn't found. But I'm just speculating.

You can read the article without a subscription if you google the URL and then click on it from the search results.