Researchers find ride-share drivers discriminate based on race and gender
Tuesday, November 1, 2016 - 06:01
in Mathematics & Economics
Research that involved tracking ride-share data for white and African-American customers found that ride-share drivers in Boston and Seattle were more likely to cancel on African-American travelers than white travelers, and that African-Americans had to wait longer to be picked up. These findings do not report on the practices of these ride-share services as a whole but only the actions of individual drivers.