{"id":5001,"date":"2016-07-20T17:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T21:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/?p=5001"},"modified":"2016-07-20T16:47:19","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T20:47:19","slug":"which-is-safer-ubers-or-taxis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/2016\/07\/20\/which-is-safer-ubers-or-taxis\/","title":{"rendered":"Which is Safer, Ubers or Taxis?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"uber-vs-taxi\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In the news we often see headlined stories about passengers who have been assaulted by their Uber and Taxi drivers.\u00a0Sometimes people even report being abused more than once.<\/a> With all the media that the news covers around these incidents, we wanted to see if one of these options (Taxis or Ubers) would be safer to use than the other.<\/p>\n

Tracking Police Reports<\/span><\/p>\n

The first step of this investigation might be to check with the records of reported assaults, and compare how many occurred in Taxis and how many in Ubers in different cities across the U.S.. However, according to this article<\/a> in\u00a0The Atlantic<\/em>, when an incident is reported to the local police surrounding an assault in a cab or Uber, the police report does not include the location of where the\u00a0offense occurred.\u00a0So,\u00a0police departments in major cities have no way to track historical records of assaults that have occurred in taxis or Ubers, which complicates things just a bit.<\/p>\n

Background Checks<\/span><\/p>\n

Now to the topic of background checks. This is a sensitive topic because of\u00a0course, Uber thinks that they have more intense background checks than taxis,\u00a0using the example of some drivers who failed Uber’s check but passed the city’s background check to\u00a0drive a taxi.\u00a0On the other hand, taxi companies believe that taxi drivers have to undergo more intense background checks than Uber drivers do, because Uber’s\u00a0records only go back 7 years and they do not\u00a0use fingerprints.\u00a0Uber left the city of Austin just to prove that they\u00a0refused to fingerprint their drivers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The conclusion on this topic might be that no background checks are perfect, and each of them contain their flaws.\u00a0And, of course, even a seemingly perfect background check may not catch a potential offender of sexual assault because the person may not have a history of criminal behavior, but humans are also flawed.<\/p>\n

Incident Reporting<\/span><\/p>\n

When an incident is reported in the Uber app, Uber suspends the driver’s access to the app while they are investigating the claim, which means they are not able to drive any passengers. If they\u00a0find the person is guilty, Uber will deactivate the driver permanently. Taxi commissions have similar processes if a driver is accused of assault, however there is no standard procedure that all taxi drivers undergo when accused.<\/p>\n

According to these factors, we cannot come to the conclusion that Ubers are\u00a0more dangerous than Taxis, or the other way around. The fact of the matter is that assault incidences occur in both, and the best way to insure your safety while riding in an Uber or Taxi is to be aware of your surroundings, travel with a buddy, and be sure to report any incidences that may occur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the news we often see headlined stories about passengers who have been assaulted by their Uber and Taxi drivers.\u00a0Sometimes people even report being abused more than once. With all the media that the news covers around these incidents, we wanted to see if one of these options (Taxis or Ubers) would be safer to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[721,11,16,12,37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5001"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5005,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5001\/revisions\/5005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}