I dont like Uber as a company, but I feel this journalist is trying to hurt the Uber brand more than reporting the facts and inform people.
Brazil has a very high crime rate. Our northeast capital cities (where Uber started to accept cash as customers were asking for this) are among the most dangerous in the world regarding murder rate.
The "express kidnapping" is very very common here in São Paulo.
If you consider the crime problem in Brazil, Uber is quite irrelevant on all of this. And it is fairly obvious that if have a big enough operation here, crime will happens to you too.
I am not saying that Uber has no responsibilities in supporting its drivers and passengers (preventing before and supporting after the crime). But this story seems to just want to capitalize on Uber bad reputation.
Brazil has a very high crime rate. Our northeast capital cities (where Uber started to accept cash as customers were asking for this) are among the most dangerous in the world regarding murder rate.
The "express kidnapping" is very very common here in São Paulo.
If you consider the crime problem in Brazil, Uber is quite irrelevant on all of this. And it is fairly obvious that if have a big enough operation here, crime will happens to you too.
I am not saying that Uber has no responsibilities in supporting its drivers and passengers (preventing before and supporting after the crime). But this story seems to just want to capitalize on Uber bad reputation.
And the title is quite exagerated and click baity