Uber sued by family of six-year-old killed in San Francisco crash
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Re: Uber sued by family of six-year-old killed in San Francisco crash
#2FTA> This is the first case against Uber and is likely to be hard fought by the company
First legal case against uber? My ass it is.
Re: Uber sued by family of six-year-old killed in San Francisco crash
#3The article doesn't mention if the driver was en-route to pick up a driver.
Uber should be liable once driver taps on the button and a customer is locked in. He's rushing to get there, like any other taxi who sees a customer flag them down across the road.
Makes sense no? That said, this is any company's nightmare. Why don't they just settle and be a good citizen.
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#5kinda funny how it defends "taxi's good driving".
pretty sure i don't need to describe how theres safe and less safe drivers and taxi certainly aren't a model of safety for driving in general.
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im curious about 3) too.
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> 3) The news reports - "at green light". Does that mean, even the driver was not at fault?
The driver was turning right, that means the pedestrians light was also 'Go'. Moreover, the driver must yield pedestrians according to right of way traffic laws. So, the driver was at fault not the pedestrians.
Most likely the driver was in a hurry to pick up an Uber passenger, that means he was on Uber's duty. Uber's argument is ridiculous.
Uber should step up and do the right thing. Their drivers and cars should be covered by insurance as long as their app is being used.
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> 3) The news reports - "at green light". Does that mean, even the driver was not at fault? The driver was turning right, that means the pedestrians light was also 'Go'. Moreover, the driver must yield pedestrians according to right of way traffic laws. So, the driver was at fault not the pedestrians. Most likely the driver was in a hurry to pick up an Uber passenger, that means he was on Uber's duty. Uber's argument…
If the driver was hurrying to pick up an Uber passenger, that's going to surface pretty quickly in civil discovery, making it pretty silly for Uber to stake a public claim on what happened. It's probably a safer bet that he wasn't.
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#9I don't see how Uber is responsible. Correct me if I'm wrong but you wouldn't sue Android if you were texting while driving, or Google Maps if you were changing your location and had a crash.
So why would Uber be responsible if their driver was using their app? Especially if Uber says to their drivers not to use it while driving.
Interested to hear thoughts here.
Re: Uber sued by family of six-year-old killed in San Francisco crash
#10I don't see how Uber is responsible. Correct me if I'm wrong but you wouldn't sue Android if you were texting while driving, or Google Maps if you were changing your location and had a crash. So why would Uber be responsible if their driver was using their app? Especially if Uber says to their drivers not to use it while driving. Interested to hear thoughts here.
If I was under a sort of employment contract with Google and using a Google's device and app as a part of Google Street View project, they should be liable for the accidents.