So, CBC makes news reports for OLD people, talking really slowly and stating the obvious?
This report is so much playing on emotion and sensation and fear of technology.
Toronto roads are complex and dangerous. Training would be helpful, but accidents will continue to happen, it's just the nature of statistics.
Maybe self-driving tech will be the next thing to drastically reduce the accidents...maybe not.
I am sad that someone died unnecessarily on the QEW last year. Nonetheless, this happens all the time with people who do not know how to drive, Bad Uber drivers and PTC driver training will barely be a drop in the bucket. It's just that UBER remains sexy to the CBC as something the generate fear, and car accidents of the garden variety are ho-hum enough not to warrant 20 minutes of Michael Moore style (And I mean that respectfully, I more often than not, like Moore) confrontational, emotional, reporting.
Here is what is the real story: How many trips are taken with UBER (and LYFT and others) that are event free. How many incidents (not involving ridehail) in the city result in accidents, sexual assaults and just plain assaults (think the closing time at clubs, and all the angry dudes yelling and fighting with each other, no ride-hail involved.)
How much does UBER (and ride-hail in general) add to this?
Is that number statistically significant to warrant all the pearl clutching?
The story could just as easily been, "A friend of Nick's decided to drop him off at the airport." or "Nick hailed a cab..."
In either of these hypotheticals, the reason may not have been due to navigation, it might have been a pothole, or an animal running across the road.
I'm no fan of UBER, but when billions of rides are given a month, there are going to be accidents.
Look at the number of automobile deaths globally per year.