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what I’m going to tell everybody out
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there is uh come see me if you’re
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involved in a crash with an Uber driver
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a lot of people don’t realize the way
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Uber does business they have an Uber app
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and the driver uh gets the Uber app
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through his cell phone and the cell
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phone may be sitting next to him it may
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be B it on his
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dashboard uh it may be in front of his
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face
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but the bottom line is that in order to
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drive an Uber car you have to be able to
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communicate with Uber when they in fact
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when they have a ride for example that
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contacts them and says look I need
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Transportation Uber will contact several
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of its drivers in that general
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area and what happens is there when they
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contact the driver there’s a blinking
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red light on the phone and the driver
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has 15 seconds to push a button to say
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I’ll accept the ride but once he does
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that a screen shows him where the ride
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is so he has to look at the screen
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determine where the ride is and
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determine whether or not he can make it
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to the ride within a reasonable period
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of time and if he can’t then he has to
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press another button that says I can’t
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make this right I can’t take it so give
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it to somebody else so these drivers are
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on competition with each other they want
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the business so they want the ride so
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they’re glued to their cell phones
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to the exclusion of being having their
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eyes glued to the roadway so I have a
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case right now a huge case where an Uber
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driver ran a red light because he didn’t
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see it and the reason he didn’t see it
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was because he was contacted by Uber
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about another ride and his attention was
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distracted to his cell phone busily
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accepting the other ride and determining
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where it was and because of that my
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client who was a rear seated passenger
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was seriously injured as was a a SUV
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that was broadsided by this driver who
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was distracted as a result of the way
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that Uber does business