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Originally Posted by Vicky.

Ok lets go with only taxi drivers. Licensed ones.




Really? You would think so, but no.

Crunching some numbers again, since I am now in the mood.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statis...s-england-2015

84770 licensed taxi drivers in London

(35% of the total number of taxis in UK, which is 242,200)

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crim...-a3226396.html



Now, its important to note here that some of this data is...out of date as I couldn't find this years stats. Ie. These stats on rape and such are from 2014/2015/2016. Uber only fairly recently got to 40k drivers. But for the sake of this, we will pretend they always had the 40k drivers. The number of drivers is not really too relevant when looking at stuff like this...its the ratios.

So uber 32 in a year from 40k drivers.
Licensed cabs 141 a year from 85k drivers.

As number of drivers is over double that of uber, its only fair to divide the number of attacks to be comparing like with like. So say 70 attacks from 42.5k drivers. Take off a further 10% of attacks, simply as I do not want people to be all like (omg but you have more attacks by licensed safe people because there are 2.5k more of them in the stats). 10% off 70, leaves 63. 10% off 42.5k leaves 38,425 drivers. Which leaves us with

So uber 32 in a year
'Licensed cabs' 63 in a year. Nearly double.

Clearly more attacks among these 'safe' licensed cabs eh...

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If we assume that uber were included in these figures already, its even worse. So take off 40k uber drivers off for 'licensed cabs' leaving 45k. Also take off the confirmed reports for uber drivers. 109 attacks left.

109 rapes or sexual assaults between 45k 'safe and vetted' drivers.
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32 rapes or sexual assaults between 40k 'dangerous' uber drivers.


Whichever way you crunch it, uber seem to be considerably more safe.


Any amount of sexual assault or rape among any amount of drivers is disgusting. I am not defending these vile people who committed these acts at all. Just proving a point that I didn't really need to prove but fancied messing about with as I am slightly high on my pain meds

Excellent analysis Vicky

I thought this opinion piece was quite interesting

Opinion: London’s Uber ban isn’t about safety, it’s about protecting unions

There are more sexual assaults in the Underground than in Uber cars

London’s Uber ban isn’t about safety, it’s about protecting unions