[whytaka]

I am now convinced that Uber/ride-sharing is responsible for the deterioration in our high-trust societies.

Uber made it ok for regular drivers commit road violations with impunity.

[roywiggins]

> Uber made it ok for regular drivers commit road violations with impunity.

It was probably because cops stopped enforcing traffic laws during COVID and never started again:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/07/29/upshot/traffi...

[pavel_lishin]

> Uber made it ok for regular drivers commit road violations with impunity.

Can you say more about this?

[whytaka]

My conjecture is that when people started to see non-taxi branded cars just idle on streets without parking, forcing people to cross over lanes around them, it broke a social barrier.

[mensetmanusman]

It was actually Vietnam according to historians.