Judge Rules That Uber Does Not Have To Provide Wheelchair Accessible Rides In Every U.S. City | Carscoops carscoops
Uber’s decision not to offer wheelchair-accessible rides in every U.S. city is not a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act , a federal judge ruled this week.users whose chairs can’t be folded and placed in a trunk.
“The anticipated cost here is too high for the limited service that would result, making the proposed modification unreasonable,” the judge ruled. Scott Crawford, the plaintiff from Jackson, told The Verge that the judge was putting the burden of figuring out the business case“It’s disappointing that today, on the 32nd Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, that a big corporation is left free to discriminate against people with disabilities in the capital of the State of Mississippi,” Crawford said.
The Department of Justice announced that the company had to reimburse more than 65,000 riders for charging them fees that start to accumulate if a passenger takes more than two minutes to board a vehicle. Advocates had long argued that the policy affected disabled customers disproportionately.
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