The companies we cover have lawyers, lobbyists, and data we will never see. What we have is a record nobody can call invented. Keeping it that way is the whole job.
Four labels, on every claim
- Documented
- A public record, a published report, a company's own statement, a job listing, a court filing, or data we have examined ourselves. We link to it. If the link dies, we keep a copy.
- Employee-reported
- Something told to us by one or more workers with direct knowledge, which we could not confirm from a document. We say "according to employees familiar with" and we mean it: we have spoken to them. We try for more than one source and we say when we only have one.
- Unverified
- A story circulating that we could not confirm. We publish it only when the fact that people are saying it is itself the story, we label it as a rumor in the same sentence, and we never let it carry an argument on its own.
- In progress
- Something we are actively working to establish: pay stubs being collected, sightings being logged, a question put to a company that has not answered. We say what we have and what we don't.
Rules we hold ourselves to
- Numbers come with a source. Every figure links to where it came from. When the number comes from an industry source, we say so, because that is often the point.
- We don't invent people. No composite drivers, no illustrative quotes. Every quote is from a real person we spoke to, even when we print it anonymously.
- Inference is labeled as inference. When we connect facts into a conclusion, the reader can see the facts and the step. "That is capital allocation" is our reading. The Rivians going to Miami is what employees reported.
- The other side gets its best argument. When the safety data favors robotaxis, we print the safety data. When a company has a plausible explanation, we print the explanation. Then we make our case.
- We ask before we publish. Companies named in an investigation get the specific claims in writing and a reasonable time to respond. Their response, or their silence, goes in the piece.
- Corrections are public. If we got something wrong, we fix it, mark the change, and say what changed. We do not quietly edit.
How we protect sources
- Anonymity is the default for any current employee. We publish identifying details only with written consent.
- We strip metadata from documents and photos before anything is stored or shared.
- Small details can identify a person inside a company as surely as a name. Before publishing, we ask: how many people could know this? If the answer is "very few," we generalize or we hold it.
- We do not use internal company data a source is not entitled to share. If we are unsure, we talk to a lawyer before we talk to a reader.
- We will connect any source with worker organizations and legal help before they decide to go on record.
Who we are
This publication is run by people who have worked in the rideshare fleet industry, including as employees of companies we cover. We disclose that because it is true, because it is where our knowledge comes from, and because readers should weigh it. It is also why every claim here is labeled: our experience tells us where to look, and the documents and sources tell you whether we found something.
What we are not
We are not neutral, and we don't pretend to be. We are not a union, a law firm, or a news agency. We are not a substitute for your own judgment: read the sources, check our work, and tell us when it fails.
Contact
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