Deliveo e solo mangiare potrebbe essere costretto alle ebike illegali di 40 miglia all’ora dei ciclisti della polizia
Deliveroo and Just Eat could be forced to police riders’ illegal 40mph ebikes
di ThatchersDirtyTaint
Deliveo e solo mangiare potrebbe essere costretto alle ebike illegali di 40 miglia all’ora dei ciclisti della polizia
Deliveroo and Just Eat could be forced to police riders’ illegal 40mph ebikes
di ThatchersDirtyTaint
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That’d be super, but I can think of other concerns with these businesses too.
They can’t even tell the difference between a bike and a car, there is no way they will do this. Happens all the time. Profile says bike, and they take twice as long because they are in a car.
The deliverer’s apps could be linked to their licenses then any deliverer without a license tracked going 40mph up hill or similar would not get paid for that trip because they’re obviously breaking the law. There are lots of ways the companies could incentivise good behaviour from their employees they just choose not to.
Who’s going to police all the other illegal e-motorbikes then? Do they continue to get a free ride as at present?
And what about the illegal combustion-motorbikes too, the ones modified to make extra noise and driven by people in balaclavas at night?
Maybe the police could police them, not even that hard, there is an app that will bring them too you.
I wish they’d police the people who deliver my food, too.
Has anyone ever had their food delivered by the person named on the order? It’s ridiculous. It’s all just a front.
What could possibly go wrong with entrusting the people profiting off criminality to enforce the law?
I know we all like to complain about these things, and not without reason, but at the same time, we are paying these companies by ordering from them. Sometimes I just think more would be accomplished if we actually voted with our wallets, which is always going to be more effective than regulation or policing or any other approach. Deliveroo et al. riders are incentivised to ride dangerously because of how they are paid, and everyone wants their food delivered in record-breaking time. Few of them have much in the way of worker protections.
I just think, maybe don’t buy from these apps?
To me, this is a widespread issue across society. We want all the convenience (and cost savings) without dealing with the consequences, and when there are consequences, it’s someone else’s job to sort out rather than an inherently structural issue with our economy that we make a conscious decision to support.
Food delivery isn’t a problem in and of itself, and companies will quickly adapt to market pressures if people collectively decide, ‘Nah, not buying from them because they cause x,y,z problems and I don’t want to be complicit in that’.
I’ve never seen one go nearly close to as fast as that! How do they manage it?! NOS?!
They can’t even employ legal migrants. Why would then enforce this?
Yes, great idea. Rather than make the term “for offroad use only” an unacceptable method of selling the product in the first place and applying fines to the seller, put the onus on the delivery company that has looser employments terms than a wizards sleeve.
Frankly there are other issues that the delivery companies need to be held accountable for as well.
i cant read the article because its behind a paywall.
im not too familar with how these apps work for riders, but I don’t see any reason why they couldn’t regulate it. They could implement a few options: requiring driving license+ID verification for motorbikes and cars, tracking bicycle speeds via GPS, and imposing a ban if speeds exceed 30mph.
If we just regulated these businesses so the people who worked for them counted as employees that would go a long way. I went to the Netherlands recently and saw a giant Takeaway.NL (Just Eat) depot there filled with tonnes of standardised branded e-bikes.
Anyone using an ebike and bombing around at 40mph is going to be spending most of their time charging the battery. It’ll be good for nothing after more than 5 – 10 miles, probably less as the conversion kits they use usually come with cheap batteries.
Not sure this is gonna work?
On the occasions I order from Deliveroo, JustEat (or UberEats before I uninstalled and vowed never-again after I kept getting incorrect orders that they wouldn’t refund), my orders are all to be delivered by “Svetlana”, “Natalya” or “Tatyana”, but when they arrive it’s clearly a revolving door of middle-aged blokes who… I mean, okay, you can be Russian and of *any* ethnic background but Svetlana would still be a very unusual name for any of them.
It’s clearly some sort of tax scam or other scam where a bigger pool of people are sharing a small number of accounts.
These bikes are basically the only reason my food arrives warm.
Personally I think scooters and bikes are the way forwards. People will hurt themselves, they always do, but the upsides over cars are impossible to ignore
I stopped using these crap apps a long time ago. Extortionate fees, cold food, missing items.. what’s the point?
To let you in on a little ‘secret’ which I’m sure will surprise no-one, the shop I worked at which had Deliveroo and UberEats would get drivers come in for an order, pick the order up and mark as ‘on its way’ on the app, and then piss around going to the toilet and do a bit of shopping before going off to deliver the food. The disrespect to the customer used to make my blood boil.. don’t pick up the order if you ARE NOT READY. You can shop any other time because you can choose not to take any orders.
(Not commenting on the merits of the plan)
In a few months time people will be complaining about the delivery charges being extortionate as the cost of policing will be paid be somebody…
I’m usually not someone who’s response to any societal ill is to try and ban it, but if these delivery apps were banned I would lose no sleep over it. They have so many detrimental effects on our society. And even the supposed ‘benefit’ of these apps (their convenience) is one of these detriments. We’re turning into the society in WALL-E when people aren’t even willing to leave the house to get fast food anymore.
I can’t help but feel the dynamic these apps have created is seriously dystopian and something that should make more people uncomfortable. We now have a highly visible (thanks to their bright livery) underclass of exploited foreign workers, there to cater to people’s ever-growing laziness. Travel to your city centre and you will see so many of these delivery drivers, either clustering around outside of eateries or zipping down pedestrianised streets. We know most of them are here illegally, and we know they have no worker protections or recourse. It’s evocative of Dubai to me.
burglary, shoplifting no police action. Someone working – straight to jail.
Good, just add immigration status to that and make all riders their employees