How ride-hailing apps like Uber continue cab industry's history of racial discrimination
- Written by Yanbo Ge, Ph.D. in Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Washington
From hailing taxis that won’t stop for them to being forced to ride at the back of buses, African-Americans have long endured discrimination within the transportation industry.
Many have hoped the emergence of a technology-driven “new economy,” providing greater information and transparency and buoyed by an avowed idealism, would...
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