John Roman, a senior fellow at the University of Chicago’s NORC, a social research organization, said that is not necessarily true.
And I’m not surprised because sexual violence is just much more pervasive in society than I think most people realize." "Each of those incidents represents an individual who has undergone a horrific trauma," West told NBC News. Uber noted in its report that assaults happen in a small fraction of rides - 0.0003 percent of trips had a “ critical safety incident.” The company’s chief legal officer, Tony West, pointed to the assaults as a window into the broader problem of sexual assault.
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The report also provides another example of a major tech company - operating at a scale once inconceivable for pre-internet businesses - issuing a report so full of data that it raises difficult questions: Has modern technology exacerbated societal problems like assault, or has it simply given a previously unavailable level of visibility to them? Is the number of assaults truly infinitesimal, as Uber suggests, or does it indicate a more widespread problem if there are an average of eight sexual assaults in Uber cars every day? A San Francisco police officer monitors a protest outside of Uber headquarters on Aug.
Uber has even tested recording audio of trips to enhance security. They have also rolled out other safety features such as easy access to 911 and have teased that others are on the way. Uber and Lyft now do continuous background checks on drivers.
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Uber, along with other ride-hailing companies like Lyft and the now-defunct Sidecar, fought state-based efforts to require background checks for drivers - a battle they eventually lost. The company’s meteoric rise in the early 2010s was accompanied by safety concerns. Its CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, joined in 2017 and promised a new era: “ Uber 2.0.” The company is on a tough road to turning a profit, laying off employees and working to repair its brand after sexual harassment allegations within the organization boosted a social media campaign to ditch the service. In Italy, the defeat of the infinitely small signaled an end to that land's reign as the cultural heart of Europe, and in England, the triumph of infinitesimals helped launch the island nation on a course that would make it the world's first modern state.From the imperial cities of Germany to the green hills of Surrey, from the papal palace in Rome to the halls of the Royal Society of London, Alexander demonstrates how a disagreement over a mathematical concept became a contest over the heavens and the earth.The report comes at a challenging time for Uber. As Alexander reveals, it wasn't long before the two camps set off on a war that pitted Europe's forces of hierarchy and order against those of pluralism and change.The story takes us from the bloody battlefields of Europe's religious wars and the English Civil War and into the lives of the greatest mathematicians and philosophers of the day, including Galileo and Isaac Newton, Cardinal Bellarmine and Thomas Hobbes, and Christopher Clavius and John Wallis. Philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians across Europe embraced infinitesimals as the key to scientific progress, freedom of thought, and a more tolerant society. Indeed, not everyone agreed with the Jesuits. If infinitesimals were ever accepted, the Jesuits feared, the entire world would be plunged into chaos.In Infinitesimal, the award-winning historian Amir Alexander exposes the deep-seated reasons behind the rulings of the Jesuits and shows how the doctrine persisted, becoming the foundation of calculus and much of modern mathematics and technology. The concept was deemed dangerous and subversive, a threat to the belief that the world was an orderly place, governed by a strict and unchanging set of rules. With the stroke of a pen the Jesuit fathers banned the doctrine of infinitesimals, announcing that it could never be taught or even mentioned. On August 10, 1632, five men in flowing black robes convened in a somber Roman palazzo to pass judment on a deceptively simple proposition: that a continuous line is composed of distinct and infinitely tiny parts.
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