Over 9. 9 Percent of Uber’s NYC Cars Inaccessible to People With Disabilities. Getting rid of CEO Travis Kalanick has apparently not magically resolved all of ride- hailing giant Uber’s many, many problems, with the company now facing a lawsuit in New York over its near- total lack of cars accessible to people with wheelchairs. Disability Rights Advocates filed a lawsuit in the State Supreme Court on Tuesday on behalf of a coalition of activists, the New York Times reported, claiming just 1. Uber’s 5. 8,0. 00 cars within city limits are equipped to handle customers who use wheelchairs. In a complaint also posted to DRA’s web site, the plaintiffs wrote “Uber has demonstrated a total disregard for the needs of people with disabilities in the provision of its transportation services and the anti- discrimination laws of New York City.”DRA noted that 1. Uber’s NYC fleet is inaccessible to many passengers with disabilities.
It’s WWDC time and that means Apple’s ready to show off some shiny new software. We can expect to see updates to macOS and iOS as usual. But as a special treat. Alice Neel: UptownBy Hilton Als. Foreword by Jeremy Lewison. Pulitzer Prize winner Hilton Als on Alice Neel’s quietly political portraits of her uptown New York. It said passengers trying to hail a car with Uber’s pilot program for wheelchair- accessible vehicles, Uber. WAV, “face extended wait times, or are still denied access to the service altogether, demonstrating that the new service is nothing more than window- dressing, designed to avoid government regulation and legal requirements.”For its part, Uber told the Times its Uber. WAV program has expanded to nearly 2. In 2. 01. 3, NYC settled a major class- action lawsuit by agreeing to require half of the city’s yellow- cab taxis to be wheelchair accessible. DRA previously filed lawsuits alleging the MTA, which manages the city’s subway systems, systematically discriminated against passengers with disabilities by installing elevators in roughly 1. Uber’s prior best hits include allegations of a toxic culture of sexual harassment, miscalculating drivers’ income and theft of trade secrets from Google’s autonomous car company Waymo.
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