The driver was handed a fine of 900 euros ($1,043), stripped of two points from his driver’s license and banned from driving for three months, the Magdeburg police office said Tuesday.
Trivial consequences for someone of so much danger to other drivers.
In Austria, the authorities would have confiscated and probably sold his car:
Only €900? Good thing for him it was Germany, not Finland.
DoorDash driver loses her connection to the app and isn’t able to make a delivery so she went home. Because the food was never actually delivered, the customer could still see where the driver was, went to her house, and smashed the shit out of her car with a landscaping block.
The driver is absolutely right that the DoorDash app needs to have some changes made so that can’t happen. If DoorDash could have expected something like this to happen, or even more, if it HAS already happened, I’d guess she probably has a case, but I also have no idea what her contract with them looks like.
ISTM, DoorDash might want to offer her one of their lawyers, or pay for a local one, to help her sue the customer, in exchange for not suing them. But after being on the news I’m sure she’s being bombarded by lawyers offering their help.
One of my questions is how they could provide the driver with some privacy for these situations. The only thing I can think of is some type of geofence. If the app knows where a driver lives then it could pause the tracking when they’re with X miles of their home. I’m sure she could have called in, told them what happened and had them delete the order, but she had no reason to believe she needed to make sure the customer wouldn’t show up at her house. DoorDash may well have a reason to believe that could happen to one of their million+ drivers, but an individual driver, probably not.
How in the hell does losing connection with an app cause someone to become unable to deliver food?
30 years ago I was bringing people pizza, and all I had to go on was an address on a slip of paper. It never failed.
Let’s hear it for technological advancement!
it’s sad that this statement even has to be made, but please stop throwing dildos onto the floor during WNBA games. Not sure how far this goes between evil and stupid.
I bought a new car. Found a forum where people discuss the model. One person complained that the nav system sucks. I personally do not use the nav system, because it tells me to use roads that I prefer not to use – typically the busiest ones. But, apparently, many Americans revel in their poor comprehension of even simple geography.
I’ll confess that I’m not even sure what the point of this is supposed to be.
I know this may be a difficult concept but…writing things down on paper is just not a thing anymore. I know because I’m one of the few in my typical circles (many of whom are older than I am) who still uses paper to take notes, addresses, etc.
This driver’s only knowledge of the delivery address was almost certainly from the app itself, which also provided the navigation (via some agreement with Google). And since the issue was a lack of internet connectivity, she’d have no knowledge of the address, much less be able to plot a route, inefficient or not, unless she happened to remember it.
Other than the crazed customer, Door Dash is the party to blame. Safeguarding personal information, like the addresses of their drivers, is rather important. As are potential backup plans if internet connectivity is lost.
Do you expect DoorDash drivers to keep a written log of every order they receive?
I suspect the point is to remind women they are only good for sex.
Deputies say the suspect admitted to doing it out of boredom and now faces a felony charge.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/florida-man-charged-allegedly-striking-005904532.html
Noxious hyperbolic generalization alert.
Nav systems can be very useful even to relatively intelligent people. For example, I do volunteer work that takes me into all parts of the fairly large city I have lived in for 45 years, but which I do not have memorized down to the block detail. I prefer to spend my driving time avoiding accidents and nutball drivers rather than pulling over to look at a map. Yes, sometimes my nav system recommends routes I refuse to take, but it almost always shows alternatives.
Of course, if you don’t use your nav system (that you paid for), bully the fuck for you.
I was on a business trip a year or two ago. One night we were doing simultaneous go-lives at a dozen locations all over a metro area fifty miles across. Throughout the evening, I was getting texts directing me to go to various locations to help out, and the locations were identified only by a street name and number. Popping just that much info into Google Maps was enough to get me where I needed to go. I have no idea how much longer it would have taken had I still be trying to navigate the old way, with paper maps.
Jerry: David Berkowitz, Ted Bundy, Richard Speck…
Alice: What about them?
Jerry: Serial killers. Serial killers only have two names. You ever notice that? But lone gunmen assassins, they always have three names. John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, Mark David Chapman…
Alice: John Hinckley. He shot Reagan. He only has two names.
Jerry: Yeah, but he only just shot Reagan. Reagan didn’t die. If Reagan had died, I’m pretty sure we probably would all know what John Hinckley’s middle name was.
I’m glad for you that you have a mind that can know every street address in your city. They don’t make Thomas Guides anymore and even if they did, you’d still have to 1) stop and find the street, and 2) drive slowly looking for the house number, which may not be visible. Good luck! Or you can join the 21st century and use modern tech which works quite well.
Gotta say I really hate that headline. (ETA - and yeah, I know you’re not responsible for it)
It says he “struck” the helicopter with a laser pointer - what, by throwing it?
It should say he “illuminated” or “lit up” or “radiated” or something like that. This headline made me think more of a physical attack.
No, just to know where their destination is. I don’t think it’s too much.
I’m going to hazard a guess that Door Dash doesn’t give out the addresses of their drivers. I will theorize that the app allows the customer to track where the driver is with their food. And once the food is delivered, that connection is broken.
So since the food wasn’t delivered, the app maintained the connection between the customer and the driver.
Your average delivery person will be carrying a dozen different deliveries to a dozen different addresses, often from a dozen different restaurants, a dozen times a night. That they constantly write down addresses because there’s a vanishingly rare risk that the app will stop working - while riding an e-bike - is a ridiculous demand.
Sure, if you never leave home, you can safely avoid using the satnav/GPS. But some of us travel.