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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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