• garpujol@discuss.online
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    23 days ago

    I got tboned by an Uber eats employee because they weren’t paying attention and ran a red light. The driver had only been driving for a few months, and had no business being rushed by some app to meet some quota. Because of them, I’m permanently fucked up.

    • daddy32@lemmy.world
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      23 days ago

      This is too bad, wish you the best. I already had a thought these apps are effectively decreasing safely of the cities for the profit, but haven’t experienced it myself…

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        22 days ago

        If it had be a local pizza place instead it would have been better? Safer?

        The problem here is a bad driver, not their employer / contracting app.

        • daddy32@lemmy.world
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          22 days ago

          Well yes, pizza delivery guys are pushed into the reckless driving too - some of the most absurd crashes I’ve seen involved them - however there is a big difference in the immediacy of the pushing. There’s a difference between your boss yelling at you to be faster once per day or a week and the app constantly pushing you with realtime feedback and ever changing incentives.