Uber starts free shuttling service to recovering Opiod Addicts.
Uber never stops making moves....and it really can't because scandals and bad press are inevitablilites when you're one of the first peer-to-peer ridesharing transportation network companies. All the degredation and sin that plagues the world is going to and has plagued Uber and the only way to survive is to stay on your toes. So after an autonomous Uber vehicle
crashed into and killed a 49-year-old Woman last month, and the subsequent investigation found that the human rider
within the vehicle was texting instead of watching the road, Uber has its back against the wall, once again and needs a big play to put the bottom line back in the black. So the powers that be sat down and threw darts at a chalk board with all America's tribulations stickey-noted to it and after the dart landed on human trafficking and then cyber theft, Uber finally had a viable option:
OPIOD CRISIS. Uber has
joined forces with Goodwill(as dispatch) to ferry recovering Addicts to and from treatment facilities in Chesterfield County, Virginia, which leads the nation in overdoses per capita. Via Goodwill, participants will have pre-made rider profiles with preset destinations. How Uber will compensate it's drivers was not discussed. I have to admit that while this is probably completely ingenuine, it is a move in the right direction. Sure, Uber is just covering up the symptoms of a problem(which is why the opiod crisis happened in the first place) but there isn't any philanthropic work to be done in America that directly solves any of America's major problems as they are all results of free market capitalism, something deeply ingrained into American Society. But if an innocent Woman has to die so hundreds of thousands(if the program catches on) won't, then so be it.
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