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Redlining practices of Uber and Lyft exclude Black People

Uber and Lyft are companies formed in Lilly white silicon valley, by Lilly white computer geeks, who would not know what the hood looked like even if they ventured into Oakland. They have put together a business model that is for white people, and excludes blacks, and most poor people. Their intent is to only cheery pick the best, and richest fares in any community, and Redline the hood and poor areas. 

This is easily done by allowing the drivers to not only choose where they work, but allow them to choose who they will pick up. The driver can rate the customer and, then, nobody will pick them up. If the rider does not tip (which is cultural and common with inner city people), they will get a bad rating and no Uber or Lyft guy will pick them up. I must pick them up even if they don't tip. A typical attitude of a Lyft rider is like the comment left on this site. 
You have to accept the new and ever changing world of technology and what people are comfortable with. Most people do not want to have to call for a cab anymore and be treated with disrespect over the phone by the cab company operators and then wait for thirty minutes for the cab to show up with a driver from a third world country running the meter. Uber is the computer and taxis are the typewriter! If you continue to pay the cab company a lease every week you are going to be broke and left behind!
That is his way of saying white. What is a shame is this person is probably a democrat and thinks he is hip, urban, and with the program. He probably thinks he is not a racist because he knows a black guy at work.
The practice of “redlining” has been utilized for decades by industries ranging fromsupermarkets to banking. But if brick and mortar stores engage in a kind of quiet discrimination by simply choosing not to opt in to low-income or minority neighborhoods, companies like Uber, which are highly scalable and inherently mobile, make conscious decisions to purposefully opt out of entire neighborhoods from their service areas.
Technology companies in particular, born in the lily-white incubators of Silicon Valley and Alley, are increasingly coming under fire for their questionable relationships to minority communities. Most recently, the makers of smartphone app Sketch Factor, which advises users which neighborhoods are “sketchy,” faced harsh criticism for stoking racial profiling by flagging predominantly minority neighborhoods.
These are practices that I believe when people become aware of Uber will have to account. Even better, people will stop using such racist services.

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  1. I don't think taxi companies should count on PTC or local law enforcement to protect their interests that much and they should be more proactive.
    eg.
    hire own taxi drivers to head hunt uber and Lyft drivers in exchange for half a lease per head? or some other monetary reward.........
    this is small investment, if you consider the idea, that 10 years from now, there might be no taxis, but Uber-Walmart and Lyft-Facebook cartels

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  2. You got it. John D. Rockefeller tactics of elimination of all competitors. Primitive capitalism leads to monopolies.

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  3. I'm a driver for lyft and I never refuse a customer based on race (if they have a pic on their profile) or location. So about the rating and tipping: cash tipping is not commonplace and is extremely rare (less than 1% according to my experience). While lyft does implement a tipping system into the app, we must give the rider a rating immediately before knowing if they tipped or accepting additional rides and we cannot alter that rating later. From me, low ratings go to riders who disrespect me or my car. But in general, consistently bad ratings will go to douchers. Basically My roommate also drives for uber which implements no tipping system and he says cash tips are also rare. I understand the necessity to bash us to maintain your livelihood. If it makes you feel better lyft and uber drivers will be replaced by self-driving cars in the next couple decades so we have a timer on our heads too. Oh and I'm really impressed with your 1975 rating...I only got up to 1095 before another game snagged my interest.

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