Uber (company) | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-01-02

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uber


00:01:20 1 Product overview
00:01:29 1.1 Riding with Uber
00:02:55 1.1.1 Levels of service
00:07:04 1.1.2 Services under development
00:07:40 1.1.3 Non-recurring / discontinued services
00:10:39 1.2 Driving with Uber
00:12:00 1.2.1 Navigation technology
00:12:24 1.2.2 Programs for drivers in the United States
00:13:11 1.3 Rating scores
00:14:10 1.4 Other products and services
00:15:22 2 History
00:17:52 2.1 UberX
00:18:52 2.2 UberPOOL
00:19:50 2.3 Self-driving car research
00:24:19 2.3.1 Autonomous trucks
00:24:55 2.4 Uber Eats
00:25:11 2.5 Funding
00:28:44 2.5.1 Possible initial public offering
00:29:52 2.6 Profitability
00:30:54 2.7 Management
00:31:02 2.7.1 Communications and policy executives
00:31:56 2.7.2 CPO
00:32:13 3 Company characteristics and impact
00:32:24 3.1 Strategy for dealing with regulators
00:33:48 3.2 Employee diversity
00:34:41 3.3 Uber for X
00:35:18 3.4 Linux Foundation
00:35:49 3.5 Privacy
00:36:05 4 Criticism
00:36:50 4.1 Increased traffic congestion
00:37:21 4.2 Reduced usage of public transportation
00:37:41 4.3 Lack of wheelchair accessible vans
00:38:14 4.4 Effect on values of New York City taxi medallions
00:39:07 4.5 Drivers using their phones while driving
00:40:01 4.5.1 Criminal probe due to use of Greyball
00:42:21 4.5.2 Treatment of drivers as independent contractors
00:43:13 4.5.3 Underpayment of drivers
00:43:37 4.5.4 Accusation of trade-secret theft by Waymo
00:44:45 4.5.5 Alleged short-changing of drivers
00:45:29 4.5.6 Denial of service to passenger with service animal
00:46:00 4.5.7 Protest after Trump travel ban
00:47:30 4.6 Dynamic pricing
00:49:49 4.7 Increase in traffic congestion
00:50:13 4.8 Alleged cancellation of ride requests to disrupt competitors
00:51:00 4.8.1 Operation SLOG plan to disrupt Lyft
00:52:54 4.9 Evasion of law enforcement operations
00:53:06 4.9.1 Greyball
00:53:24 4.9.2 Ripley
00:54:18 4.10 User privacy and data breaches
00:54:29 4.10.1 God view
00:55:41 4.10.2 Data breaches
00:58:28 4.11 Safety concerns
00:58:49 4.11.1 Allegations of inadequate background checks and vetting of drivers
01:00:21 4.11.2 Drivers using the app while driving
01:01:22 4.12 Sexual harassment allegations and management shakeup (2017)
01:03:45 4.12.1 Criticism of workplace culture amid the scandals
01:04:44 4.12.2 Scandals and departure of Emil Michael
01:06:07 4.12.3 Settlement with victims
01:06:31 4.13 Use of offshore companies to minimize tax liability
01:07:00 5 Awards



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Uber Technologies Inc. (doing business as Uber) is a peer-to-peer ridesharing, taxi cab, food delivery, bicycle-sharing, and transportation network company (TNC) headquartered in San Francisco, California, with operations in 785 metropolitan areas worldwide. Its platforms can be accessed via its websites and mobile apps. Uber has been prominent in the sharing economy, so much so that the changes in industries as a result of it have been referred to as Uberisation.Uber has also been the subject of protests and legal actions, including a criminal investigation for its use, until March 2017, of Greyball software to avoid giving rides to regulators. The name "Uber" is a reference to the common (and somewhat colloquial) word uber, meaning "topmost" or "super", and having its origins in the German word über, cognate with over, meaning "above".Uber is estimated to have 100 million worldwide users and a 69% market share in the United States.