Essay On Uber And Lyft

Being originally from Washington, D.C., I spent my childhood riding the subway with my parents from the city to the suburbs. We would pick up our car at the local park-a-ride down the street from our home, and then repeat the same process the next day. During the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, because of the subway, my mother had quick access to my daycare center once she was released from her place of employment. With the said, according to the Department of Transportation statistical data revealed that from 2000 to 2014 approximately 88% of people who commute to work by personal vehicles or subway preferred these forms of transportation despite the availability of ridesharing companies like, Uber and Lyft that emerged

How did Uber and Lyft become more popular in 2016-2017? Because people love the latest and greatest trends once popular. As a result, many of us, especially young people, are unaware of the many reasonable safety standards that these companies are not required to follow, like in-depth background checks, vehicle safety and valid insurance policies. According to an article in Forbes Magazine titled, “Uber's Background Checks Failed to Catch a Murderer and Other Felons, Prosecutors Say”, prosecutors from San Francisco and Los Angeles contends that ridesharing companies like Uber and Lyft continue to mislead their customers by selling the notion that the company conduct in-depth background checks on all of their drivers. Despite the fact records show that drivers are intentionally providing false personal information to these companies, hiding incidents of sexual assault, assault, pedophilia, robbery, theft, kidnapping and murder. Recently, both Uber and Lyft settle lawsuits, requiring them to change the wording in their message to customers. Prosecutors maintained that the “gold standard” for criminal background check must include fingerprinting or other biometric identifier; therefore, Uber and Lyft cannot claim “industry-leading”