I have never used uber. Seen them about a few times though. Shame so many jobs are to be axed though. Especially at the moment when jobs are scarce and people are blamed/shamed for their own unemployment no matter the reasons...
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Originally Posted by Oliver_W
Isn't there at least one rape a week by Uber drivers? Whether or not it's right for TFL to rescind their license, Uber should have something in place to vet its drivers.
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Where does that come from? And that sounds about in keeping with the UK population and rapes/sexual assaults anyway. I checked up on this just out of curiosity when I saw this quote, and the results are shocking. Utterly awful.
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Approximately 85,000 women and 12,000 men are raped in England and Wales alone every year; that's roughly 11 rapes (of adults alone) every hour. These figures include assaults by penetration and attempts.
Nearly half a million adults are sexually assaulted in England and Wales each year
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https://rapecrisis.org.uk/statistics.php
So uber employs 40k people. And there is one rape per week. So 52 a year.
The UK population is 66m ish. And there are 100k rapes per year.
Utterly pointless post really. But the rape stats shocked me so much. Sexual assault at 500k a year too. Jesus.
Edited to add...
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Originally Posted by Kizzy
Freedom of Information data obtained by The Sun last year showed that the Metropolitan Police investigated 32 drivers for rape or sexual assault of a passenger between May 2015 and May 2016.
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OK using these new stats of 32 per year (AND it being sexual assault rather than rape) rather than 52... Uber drivers are actually considerably safer than the general population. By a long shot.