Uber drivers are private contactors. As such, they can choose to pick up whomever they want unless it is violating a specific rule of the company that they signed up for.I would think that neighborhoods would have a greater tendency to keep drivers away than names. There are certain neighborhoods that many cabbies won't go into in most large and medium cities and suburbs.

I wouldn't give a politician a ride no matter how much they paid...guess I am a racist after all.

Study finds people avoid parking next to cars with dents...Study finds people are excited by loud noises...Study finds dogs drool when a bell rings...

If you want to fix the response, correct behavior controlling the facts.

If the drivers in Boston and Seattle were allowed to carry guns, they would be less concerned with the quality of the clientele.

Study finds the NBA is racist. "...thorough examination of the makeup of the NBA players has found that among all teams there are far fewer white people as a percentage of the national population than other ethnicity's. Even more insidious is there are no women! Perhaps we should call this the National Boys Association?"

The article doesn't mention anything about the pick-up location of the passengers. I wonder if that could have affected the alleged difference in drivers rate of passenger pick-ups.

Well, racism is evil, but the government should not
get involved. I have experienced a little discrimin-
ation (but this was some years ago, and with a regular cab), because of the neighborhood I was going into; the cab driver did not want to drive into my neighborhood at night. Which I
suppose was understandable, and that was ap-
parently because of fear rather than racism.

It's also sexist. Because women riders were given longer rides, either to chat them up or to get more money (because apparently women have no direction sense thus can be cheated according to study authors). I am sure there may be other explanations because social behavior isn't a scientific certainty, because every person is different.

We live in a world today and I am only referring to the usa that wants everything to be equal and to the dismay of the do goods it is NOT that way. But they will never ever be open to a discussion as to why that attitude is a pipe dream. Doesn't it get old for us to hear so many complaints as to what is supposedly wrong with what is going on in the country i.e. usa.

I think today most everyone is not "racist" in that they think actual race means much of anything. Plus, racial interbreeding has resulted in most of us being not of a pure race anyway.
BUT I think most people are "culturist" in that they prefer persons who exhibit certain cultural behaviors, and I see nothing wrong with that.
We interact with so many people that we instinctually and instantly engage in profiling every day. It's not 100% accurate to assess a persons cultural traits and beliefs of course, but it's not a bad or evil practice
We even engage in the same process of profiling in selecting a neighborhood, brands we prefer, restaurants we select
I think the term racist today is more of a PC term designed to incite guilt. Think about it. It's the culture that people have absorbed that accounts more for the differences between persons, not their skin color.