According to a new study (warning, PDF) released by Uber, yesterday, its Boston drivers - of which it estimates there are now 10,000 - are earning an average of $19 per hour, ~33-percent more than area taxi drivers and chauffeurs.
The study came under immediate criticism because its research was co-conducted in-house by John Hall, Uber Technologies' "Head of Policy Research", so, yeah, he had a conflict of interest. He has a doctorate from Harvard University, though, so there's that.
Eeka pulls over to let an ambulance go by and a cab smashes into her and then takes off.
TS, though, reports that sometimes Masshole cabbies do get what's coming to them - although, of course, being cabbies, they wind up shutting down the Sumner Tunnel in the process.
Jay Fitzgerald wonders if Boston cabs are just collectively a disaster in the making. He reports:
... I was standing on the sidewalk on Harrison Avenue, when I was jolted out of my usual Walter Mitty smoking-break reverie by a loud metallic banging sound coming down Herald Street. The commotion stopped when a cab pulled over to the side. The driver got out, inspected the cab, looked underneath it, and then shrugged his shoulders. A few minutes later, a hotel van came to pick up the stranded passenger in the back seat. ...
About that cab that caught fire on Cambridge Street yesterday morning: Not only did Carpundit witness the fire, he reports he had to convince the driver to get out of the car:
... I saw it pulled over and the driver just sitting there, staring down at the passenger seat as if he were examining a map. He was oblivious of the flames rising out of the instrument panel. If I'd had a camera, I could show you. But I didn't. Instead, I ran over and opened the door.
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