Study of Lyft rideshare data confirms minorities get more tickets

Then, the researchers got data on all the speeding tickets issued in Florida and identified the ones belonging to Lyft drivers.

The data showed one thing clearly: Lyft has incentives for its drivers to avoid traffic violations, and they work. “Compared with the general population of motorists, our sample is less prone to speed, especially more than 10 mph over the limit,” the team writes. “As a result, our analysis examines only 1,423 citations for speeding.” While lower than you’d expect, that’s more than enough to do some statistics on the frequency of these citations.

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There’s a lot of confounding factors that might influence whether someone gets pulled

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