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by owowow 2077 days ago
Yet she was put in a situation where she had to regularly take her eyes off the road to enter data as part of her job.

Uber is culpable for designing the job such that the risk of accidents significantly increased.

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Except she wasn’t doing that either. She was watching Netflix on her phone.
Uber should have just put two people in the car and taken their phones for the duration of the shift. Totally foreseeable in hindsight which is awful considering someone died.
Most companies don't hire a second supervisor to watch their drivers. I don't think that's a reasonable standard for criminal negligence.

I do think civil liability is appropriate, and uber Settled for $9.7 Million. (it looks like the family is also suing the city and state.) https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/tempe/2019/03/19/...