Maurice Boscorelli (mboscorelli)

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  "Serve" New Food Delivery Option - Delivery Robots of the Future

  This Wall-E like robot delivers food to your door. Postmates that currently offers food delivery is working on a food …
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  Want to See Where Your Rider is Going? You May Be Able to Now [RSG]

  Great article on how Uber and Lyft are starting to show more information before the driver accepts the ride.  All …
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  Do you think Uber teaming up with Toyota is an admission that Uber could not build their own autonomous vehicles?

  Many said it was suicide for Uber to take on Google and other gigantic car manufacturers.  Uber saw itself as …
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  An old poster for car-sharing., ride-sharing, car-pooling.

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  Uber Meets Tinder - UnDer

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  Ex-Uber driver guilty of manslaughter for killing girl in SF crosswalk

  This guy had no chance.   A former Uber driver who fatally struck a 6-year-old girl in a San Francisco crosswalk …
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  Cancellation Reason: Stopped the car mid-trip to yell at a pigeon

  Only in New York...
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  VW is launching a car-sharing service called WE [TechCrunch]

  VW is launching a car-sharing service called WE that only uses electric vehicles, following the lead of rivals such as …
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  Battle of the Sexes - Women are more likely to engage in distracted driving [NBC]

  Researchers say women are more likely to engage in distracted driving. A new study shows female drivers have a higher …
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  Scooter-sharing companies tried to barge into San Francisco and got kicked out. [Decode]

  Seriously, did we learn from the mistakes we made with Uber?  For allowing them to do whatever they wanted?  This …
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  Will autonomous vehicles really make taxi drivers obsolete?

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  Lyft passengers tips DOUBLE Uber's?!

  I know this is a small sample (i.e. 100 rides but one driver), but it's a pretty larg egap. " …

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   6 years ago in  Mid-Ride Cancellation Scam - Now on Bridges and Tunnels

  Yes, cancelling mid-trip is prominent.  There should be a penalty for this.  Like a cancellation fee.  

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   6 years ago in  Google's bet: Autonomous Vehicle's first real-world application isn't rideshare. It's grocery delivery. [The Verge]

  touché.   You win.

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   6 years ago in  Google's bet: Autonomous Vehicle's first real-world application isn't rideshare. It's grocery delivery. [The Verge]

  Oh, my gosh.  That escalated quickly.  Wow, jeez.  did we have to take it that far with your example?  

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   6 years ago in  Google's bet: Autonomous Vehicle's first real-world application isn't rideshare. It's grocery delivery. [The Verge]

  This makes sense so much that it hurts.  I mean, let these un-manned drones drive potatoes and frozen meals.  No one will get hurt if it wraps itself around a telephone pole.

  I wonder if executives at Uber are like, "DOH! Why didn't we think of that?"

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   6 years ago in  Willing to negotiate rides outside of Uber?

  Arguable.  In most states liability insurance is required to be attached to your car insurance.  This personal policy should apply if you are simply driving another human being.

  When you are not working with Uber, you are no longer driving a rideshare, and you are not running a business. You are theoretically just driving another person as is your right.  You should be covered IMO.

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   6 years ago in  Willing to negotiate rides outside of Uber?

  This happens often.  UberBlack drivers who are pretty much all limo/back car drivers regularly practice this.

  Remember with these hired-cars, the drivers rely on having regular customers while providing superior service (and nice cars).  They can't be hailed, so they get phone calls from their clients.  They hand out business cards, and hope people will call for personalized service.

  This just happened with me on my business trip last month.  I took an UberSUV from the airport to a meeting location.  The guy gave me a business card and asked me if I'd call him for the trip back. and I did.  The guy showed up promptly, and everyone was happy.  I paid cash, but I assume he had means of taking a credit card.

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   6 years ago in  Uber’s Chief People Officer Liane Hornsey resigned following a probe into how she handled racial discrimination at the company.

  I'd hate to say it, but this is probably true.  Maybe not all of it, but I am sure most of it.

  That kind of toxic culture won't change overnight.  

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   6 years ago in  So terrible. Passenger rapes female Uber driver.

  I don't think Uber checks the passenger profile pics.  They don't require copies of licenses (for riders), so how would they, right?

  Uber at least checks that.  Plus the occasional selfie check that they do in some markets.

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   6 years ago in  Who is the richest Uber driver of all time?

  I know this is not fair to him, but why does he always look a bit evil in everyone of these pictures?  

  One look and all I can picture is him yelling at everyone.  like everyone.  strangers, dog walker, a man in the ice cream truck.  it doesn't matter.

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   6 years ago in  5 Passenger / Rider Scams that Game the System - Drivers watch out!

  actually, no.  Drivers cannot see your gps location on real time.  They just see where the request came from. 

  That'd be a crazy privacy issue, right

  Now, Uber's employees....they can see everything.  I mean, did they ever fix that?

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   6 years ago in  Man charged with attacking and carjacking Lyft Driver.

  Why carjack a Lyft and not a regular car?  They'd have GPS, locations are tracked, etc.

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   6 years ago in  Tesla’s Autopilot steered car toward barrier before deadly crash, investigators say

  No, not yet, but it'll be pushed out in a software update soon.

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   6 years ago in  how much luggage can uber ride take?

  It's like the hitchhiker's guide.

  "A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a brush, but very very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

  More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost." What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

  Hence a phrase that has passed into hitchhiking slang, as in "Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is." (Sass: know, be aware of, meet, have sex with; hoopy: really together guy; frood: really amazingly together guy.)

  - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

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   6 years ago in  I make roughly $150K a year, is it moral for me to drive for Uber?

  So basically, what you are saying it that this dude wont' be around and this whole topic is moot.

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   6 years ago in  Dara Goes Driving | UBER

  All I can think about is Travis' outrage

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   6 years ago in  Uber’s flying-car chief is stepping down and winging it - Still draining the swamp?

  LOL.  Can someone walk us through these three corporate values? 

  • “always be hustlin’,”
  • “principled confrontation” and
  • “toe-stepping.”

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   6 years ago in  Has anyone tried SafeTrek? Safe measures for Females. They say it can call police and authorities automatically.

  Grenade?  Analogy is a bit off.  The better is those terrorist suicide bombers switches where if they let go, it explodes.

  It took me a bit to find it on Google. It's apparently called the "Dead Man's Switch." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man%27s_switch

  Seen these in movies.  I can't think of anything specific.  Line of Fire?

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   6 years ago in  Uber self-driving car that killed pedestrian "decided" not to stop for her

  BTW, this % survivability and prioritizing human life.  It's like teaching the cars to have a conscience and soul.

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   6 years ago in  What is the difference between Uber's Booking Fee and Service Fee?

  So as a rider, I couldn't care less about this.

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   6 years ago in  After dropping off the passenger, can the Uber driver keep driving without completing the ride? ...in order "to run up the meter?"

  See?  This is the great thing about Uber and why it has been so successful.  It provides safety for users by monitoring the transactions and identifying all parties involved.  They also enforce accountability amongst drivers and riders alike. 

  Taxi drivers used to run up meters and run other techniques to take advantage of customers.  Not with Uber.  If you try to spin the tires in the snow or try to take the pax out on a drive, they will be found out!

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   6 years ago in  What does FUber mean in rideshare/Uber context?

  What?  Are you guys serious?  It's a nickname for

  Food + Uber = FUber.  It's any service like UberEats and Postmates. 

  Examples:

  "I really want Taco Bell but they don't deliver"

  "Dude just call a Fuber"

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