Cenk Uygur
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Study: How Racist Are Uber / Lyft Drivers?
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November 2, 2016
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8:14Now PlayingOn the whole, America is pretty racist. A new study finds Uber and Lyft drivers are no exception. Also, male drivers take longer routes with women passengers on board, because hey more creep time. Also, women are less likely to punch you for purposely increasing their fare. Cenk Uygur, Grace Baldridge, Hasan Piker, and Jayar Jackson, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"Silicon Valley is plagued with discrimination issues, and the latest companies to come under fire are Uber and Lyft.
According to a new study, drivers for the ride-sharing companies in Boston and Seattle discriminate against black passengers. It was also found that drivers treated men and women differently.
The study was conducted in Seattle and Boston by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University and the University of Washington and published on Monday. Four black and four white research assistants equal in gender representation hailed rides over the course of six weeks in Seattle, Bloomberg reported, and each of them included a photo of themselves in the app. The second study was conducted in Boston by individuals "whose appearance allowed them to plausibly travel as a passenger of either race" but using "African-American sounding" or "white sounding" names. The total rides hailed in the study was almost 1,500.
The findings reveal that drivers discriminated against their passengers based on both race and gender. Uber drivers in Boston canceled rides for men with black-sounding names more than twice as often compared to other men. In Seattle, black people waited "noticeably longer" for Uber and Lyft rides than white people — up to 35% longer, according to a press release.
The researchers note that the finding that Uber drivers disproportionately canceled rides for passengers with black-sounding names didn't apply to Lyft, but that this could be attributed to the fact that with Lyft, drivers can see passengers before they accept a ride, as opposed to Uber drivers, who only see their passenger names after they accept the ride.”*
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