Uber’s scandals are numerous. Upon reading about even just a few of them, really makes one think about the great risk they are taking when they climb into the backseat of the vehicle they hailed. A website titled, “Who’s Driving You?” is an on going list of “Ridesharing Incidents”. They list everything from Imposters to deaths, and they list an exact number of how many incidents in each category have happened. For example, according to the website, there have been 23 deaths attributed to Uber and Lyft (Who’s Driving You?). The website also cites assaults, sexual assaults, kidnappings, felons, driver DUIs, and other issues the ridesharing companies have had. The highest number of incidents falls under one of the most concerning categories: “Alleged Sexual Assaults and Harassment Incidents”. …show more content…
One example found of assault by an uber driver, was the assault on a pregnant passenger of all people. The driver got into a slight argument with the two women passengers, and once they got out of the car, the uber driver followed and assaulted the woman. The police report states: “Rafeeqah Abdur-Rahman told Graham her friend was six weeks pregnant, police said. That’s when Graham started kicking the 22-year-old in the stomach” (Eldridge). That is just one of the 57 alleged assaults by an Uber or Lyft driver. As mentioned before, sexual assault is a big problem for uber, a specific assault happened to a Boston College student. This student was picked up by an Uber using a fake name. He drove her to a different location from what she had requested, sexually assaulted her, and then drove her back to campus (CBS Boston). This man driving for uber was arraigned on three counts of rape. Overall, Uber’s negligence in their hiring process and background checks as well as their lack of overall care for their customer’s safety is a big problem. Fortunately, Taxi Cab companies in general do not have nearly as many of these
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If 9 out of 10 drivers are opting out of the industry before they've even been in a year, it's not a stretch to think that user experience is to blame for at least some of them. Happily coinciding with a December 18th mandate, ELDs - electronic logging devices - are making the much-maligned paper log a thing of the past, allowing drivers to travel through many states nearly seamlessly. With ELD features like mobile device interfaces and safeguards to prevent text-alert distractions on the road, the cab is no longer an unfamiliar, caught-in-time platform for forward-thinking millennials.During the actual drive, emerging practices like platooning - the high-tech linking of two trucks that allows for a very close following speed and near-simultaneous braking in the rear truck without driver input - help cut down on wind resistance and fuel consumption. This makes hauls more profitable for busy drivers, and also ensures a level of safety for both truck drivers and the other vehicles that they share the road with. This practice also lowers the difficulty level for newer truck drivers, though they should receive training and ample solo time on their own hauls before linking up in a platoon formation to avoid
In a viral media Public Service Announcement released ......... called “Distracted Driving,” AT&T, a billion dollar phone company, accentuates the dangers of texting while driving and what it can result in. This PSA was originally aired on their very own itcanwait website. However, the video was shared on youtube to target the young audience that logs on everyday. To accomplish the goal of stopping people from multitasking with their cellular device behind the wheel, AT&T has a young woman talking about how her life changed within a matter of seconds because of a distracted driver. This emotional connection makes the audience think how much danger they are putting not only their lives in, but also innocent lives as well.
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Bernie Madoff is one of the greatest conman in history. The Bernie Madoff scandal takes the gold as one of the top ponzi scheme in America. Madoff started the Wall Street firm, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, in 1960. Starting off as a penny stock trader with five thousand dollars, earned from his workings as a lifeguard and sprinkler installer, his firm began to grow with the support of his father-in-law, Saul Alpern, who helped by referred a group of close friends and family. Originally, his firm made markets by the National Quotations Bureau’s Pink Sheets. However, in order to compete with the bigger firms that were trading on the New York Stock Exchange floor, his firm started to use very intelligent computer software that help distributed their quotes in second’s rater then minutes. This software later became the NASDAQ that we know today. In December of 2008 Bernard Madoff confessed that he had embezzling billions of dollars from investors. It is estimated to have lasted nearly two decades, and stolen approximately $64.8 billion. On December 11, 2008 he was arreste...
After the incident, I began doing some research on teenage car accidents at the advice of the officer who had responded to the scene. What I read about and learned was frightening. In 2008 over three thousand teen deaths occurred, either as a passenger or driver in a ...
...an make roads more safe for everyone. Ann Dellinger, Ph.D., agrees that, “It will end up that we will all play a part in maximizing mobility in the community” (qtd. in Teenagers and Older). When it becomes apparent that things have become unsafe, it is better to take the keys from our loved ones rather than them lose their lives. Even worse, they could cause the deaths of other drivers, passengers, or pedestrians.
Money is power, and we live in a capitalist society; possessing a great number of money comes with a large amount of power, and one could do just about anything with the two. As of 2011, corporations hold $2 trillion. Corporate elites own most of the money in America, thus giving them control. A corporate elite is the owner, director and senior executive of the largest and most important of a nation's business corporations. A corporation is a company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law Corporations were initially created by the people, and for the people.
Thesis Statement: Road rage statistics compiled from the NHTSA and the Auto Vantage auto club, show that aggressive driving and road rage are causing serious problems.
The rise of Enron took ten years, and the fall only took twenty days. Enron’s fall cost its investors $35,948,344,993.501, and forced the government to intervene by passing the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) 2 in 2002. SOX was put in place as a safeguard against fraud by making executives personally responsible for any fraudulent activity, as well as making audits and financial checks more frequent and rigorous. As a result, SOX allows investors to feel more at ease, knowing that it is highly unlikely something like the Enron scandal will occur again. SOX is a protective act that is greatly beneficial to corporate America and to its investors.
Portfolio Project: Tesla Motors Case Study Tesla Motors (Tesla), founded in 2003 by Elon Musk, is an automotive company focused on enhancing Electric Vehicle market by creating optimum performance, all electric, vehicles for every class of consumer (Tesla Motors, 2015). In order to achieve such ambitious goals, Tesla Motors not only designs, but also manufactures, and personally sells the company’s electric vehicles (Hirsch, 2015). As additional quality assurance, Tesla Motors also designs, manufactures, and sells, electric vehicle power-train components, and battery products (Hirsch, 2015). Yet, despite the pivotal role Tesla’s self curated products play in the success of Tesla’s vehicles, the socially responsible company does not privatize Apart from Musk’s concise vision statement Tesla has a truly inspiring mission statement, “At the core, Tesla Motors believes that electric cars should not be perceived as a sacrificial mode of transportation. Tesla Motors has brought the best of both the automotive and technological worlds together by permanently etching the image of electric cars being a step backwards in performance, efficiency, and design” (Tesla Motors, Chiefly, and most apparently, it is the goal of Tesla Motor to generate demand for Tesla vehicles (Andrade, Holloway, Payne, Roy & Sheffield, 2015).
In 2014, researchers from West Virginia found out that recent models of Volkswagen vehicles were emitting up to 40 times the allowed levels of nitrogen oxides (2). These vehicles had a special software that would determine when the vehicle was in laboratory testing conditions, and the software would then alter the vehicle 's functionality to emit the legal amount of nitrogen oxides allowed by the EPA. The software was found in around half a million vehicles in the United States. In addition to the bad publicity, the Volkswagen scandal will cost the company at least $15.3 billion dollars in compensation to the owners of the affected vehicles (3). In 2016, Volkswagen engineer James Liang pleaded guilty for being a crucial part in developing the illegal software (3). The software was created because Volkswagen was unable to meet the rigorous EPA emission standards. Therefore, a small team of engineers including James Liang decided to cheat the emission exams to allow Volkswagen vehicles to be sold in the U.S.
What do you think of when you hear the word scandal? Maybe the television show, Maybe a scandal that happened in your favorite sports league, Scandals happen everywhere and I am here to show you some of the biggest scandals to happen in the healthcare industry, Before the nineteen fifties.
“When a company called Enron… ascends to the number seven spot on the Fortune 500 and then collapses in weeks into a smoking ruin, its stock worth pennies, its CEO, a confidante of presidents, more or less evaporated, there must be lessons in there somewhere.” - Daniel Henninger.
There are many lessons a business owner can learn from the Andersen/Enron scandal, the only lesson would not be that honesty is the best policy, but also that a dishonest action made by a few people can affect many. Enron’s insider trading and failure to report accurate earnings and losses paired with Andersen’s failure to properly audit and report the company’s debts and earnings made for one of the biggest scandals that the business world has ever seen. Enron used SPE’s or Special Purpose Entities to mask the large amounts of debt that they had acquired overtime