- Background Fail
- In New Delhi, they’ve actually banned Uber-style apps all because of this incident.
- In 2014, when a woman was sexually assaulted by her Uber driver, there was an outpouring of outrage from the public and questions over the safety of the ride-sharing service. Then it came out that that the driver was out on bail for another different sexual assault.
- It turned out that in India, when you signed up to be an Uber driver you just had to show your driver’s license and car registration. So without any background checks they could’ve been sending Prince Charming to your door, or John Wayne Gacy. Thankfully the driver got life in prison.
- Hammer Time
- One Uber rider made the unfortunate mistake of questioning the chosen route of his driver.
- Roberto Chicas was getting antsy but the driver took it all very personally so he pulled over and told Roberto and his friends to get out. Sure, slightly annoying but then the driver went full psycho and attacked Roberto with a hammer. Poor dude ended up with a fractured skull and had to have facial reconstructive surgery. The Uber driver was charged with assault and battery.
- Roberto eventually got a refund and hopefully Uber paid for some of his medical bills seeing as how he almost lost an eye. And you know what they say, it’s all fun and games until your Uber driver yells out, “stop, Hammer Time.”
- Kalamazoo Killer
- We could have actually have filled this entire list with the shit this one guy did in one day.
- In 2016, a man named Jason Dalton went on a shooting rampage while on his Uber route. Altogether, he shot and killed six people and injured two others; but in between attacks he still picked up fares and took them to their destinations without event. Dalton said that the Uber app was controlling his body and mind and his car and told him who to shoot. It even convinced him put on a bullet proof vest for his rampage. He said that he would’ve gotten into a shoot-out with police too but the app told him not to.
- Call me crazy but this plan sounds like it’s thought of everything a little too rationally. Kind of cold and calculated, not unlike a Maybe this is how Skynet take over; just one Uber driver at a time. Damn sentient technology, sending hardworking Americans to jail.
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