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Upgrading Uber's MySQL Fleet

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234 points benocodes | 12 comments | 14 Oct 24 12:08 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
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greenie_beans ◴[14 Oct 24 13:35 UTC] No.41837396[source]▶
yall should prioritize your focus so you can do better at vetting drivers who don't almost kill me
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1. lenerdenator ◴[14 Oct 24 13:47 UTC] No.41837484[source]▶
Their focus is prioritized according to what returns maximum value to their shareholders.
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2. greenie_beans ◴[14 Oct 24 14:05 UTC] No.41837656[source]▶
beep boop i'm a capitalist robot

pretty sure safe travels is critical to maximum value to their shareholders (aka stfu or tell me how this blog post has anything to do with maximize shareholder value https://www.uber.com/en-JO/blog/upgrading-ubers-mysql-fleet/... ... shareholder value is a dumb ass thing to prioritize over human life)

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3. ◴[14 Oct 24 14:11 UTC] No.41837715[source]▶
4. Kennnan ◴[14 Oct 24 14:21 UTC] No.41837799[source]▶
Honest question, how do you (or amyone) propose to vet drivers? They require drivers license and car insurance registration, anything like a CDL would make being a driver prohibitively expensive. Their rating system already works as a good signal the few times Ive used uber.
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5. greenie_beans ◴[14 Oct 24 14:28 UTC] No.41837866{3}[source]▶
i don't know, i don't work there. i'm just somebody who almost died because one of their drivers was a terrible driver. that sounds like a problem they should figure out. dude didn't even know how to change a tire, so start with "basic knowledge of car maintenance." and a basic ability to speak english would be a good bar to meet, too. they'll let anybody with a driver's license, car, and a heart beat drive on that app. there should be a higher barrier of entry. but idk, i don't work there. this is just my experience as consumer.

also, the US should be wayyyyy stricter on who we issue drivers license to. so many terrible drivers on the road driving these death machines.

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6. croisillon ◴[14 Oct 24 14:41 UTC] No.41837997{4}[source]▶
mandatory retest every 5 years
7. ◴[14 Oct 24 14:50 UTC] No.41838076[source]▶
8. robertlagrant ◴[14 Oct 24 14:53 UTC] No.41838097{4}[source]▶
If you have one big company with 10 bad drivers, you'll get a much worse impression of it than 100 companies each with one bad driver.
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9. greenie_beans ◴[14 Oct 24 15:00 UTC] No.41838174{5}[source]▶
and your point is?

this just makes no sense bc the drivers are on all of the different apps. rework your formula.

10. lenerdenator ◴[15 Oct 24 11:25 UTC] No.41847384[source]▶
> pretty sure safe travels is critical to maximum value to their shareholders

Well, it is... sort of.

Obviously you can't have Uber be a guaranteed way to be robbed by a highwayman, but when you've cleared out most taxis in a given city, you can start to dictate the terms by which customers accept your service.

And if that means including language in your ToS that shove your customers into a binding arbitration agreement [0] that effectively shield you from the risks of hiring incompetent or malicious drivers, well... that's what that means.

[0]https://www.npr.org/2024/10/02/nx-s1-5136615/uber-car-crash-...

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11. lenerdenator ◴[15 Oct 24 11:27 UTC] No.41847395{3}[source]▶
> They require drivers license and car insurance registration, anything like a CDL would make being a driver prohibitively expensive.

Taxi companies made it work.

They just accepted less return on their investment than the tech bros behind Uber did.

12. greenie_beans ◴[15 Oct 24 15:34 UTC] No.41849652{3}[source]▶
you can rationalize your way around the issue all day but it still don't make it right.