As the authors of the study observed: âDeath sentences represent less than one-tenth of 1% of prison sentences in the United States, but they accounted for about 12% of known exonerations of innocent defendants.â
Uber Technologies Inc. is an American multinational online transportation network company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It develops, markets and operates the Uber mobile app, which allows consumers with smartphones to submit a trip request which is then routed to Uber drivers who use their own cars. As of August 2016, the service was available in over 66 countries and 507 cities worldwide.
That Uber has compiled such impressive numbers is fitting for a company thatâs avowedly built on data. For all its talk of âride-sharing,â Uber is essentially a for-hire car or taxi service like any other, but for one golden insight: how to make taxi-ing more efficient.