A Shockingly Low Percentage Of People Tip Rideshare Drivers — Here's The Awful Truth Drivers talk about the impact on their lives, and whether or not they even know your tipping habits before they pick you up. 04/28/2024 - 8:01 pm | View Link
Debate over how to classify rideshare drivers isn’t just about pay. It’s also about their safety. where pay and conditions are subservient to the whims of the market and the moment, and where even companies with good intentions owe drivers nothing. Unions and labor laws exist to make sure ... 04/27/2024 - 5:32 am | View Link
Ohio man fatally shot Uber driver after scam phone calls targeted both of them, authorities say SOUTH CHARLESTON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man who authorities say fatally shot an Uber driver who he thought was trying to rob him after scam phone calls deceived them both has been indicted on a ... 04/15/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Uber and Lyft delay their plans to leave Minneapolis after officials push back driver pay plan Under the ordinance, ride-hailing companies must pay drivers at least $1.40 per mile and $0.51 per minute — or $5 per ride, whichever is greater — excluding tips, for the time spent ... 04/11/2024 - 5:02 am | View Link
How Uber Overcharges Riders and Underpays Drivers In March, Minneapolis passed an ordinance requiring rideshare corporations to pay drivers at least $1.40 per mile and 51 cents per minute. In a desperate attempt to block this pay floor ... 04/2/2024 - 12:59 pm | View Link
"Human beings had a play-based childhood from time immemorial," says author Jonathan Haidt. What caused teen mental health decline is "between 2010 and 2015, phones, screens come sweeping in The most important thing that parents can do is delay the age at which their child gets immersed in internet culture."
Fareed hosts a spirited debate on the House bill that could lead to a US ban on TikTok, with the American Enterprise Institute's Kori Schake and Glen Gerstell, former general counsel for the National Security Agency. They discuss national-security risks the Chinese-owned app might pose given its many American users.
A new government report warns that advanced Artificial Intelligence systems could pose an "extinction-level threat" to humans, and that the US must intervene. "I think we should be mindful of it," says Ret. Admiral James Stavridis. But he adds, "there have been big inventions in the past - the printing press, electricity, the internet - all of these have been a decried for the possibility of nefarious activity."