Uber Article #2

Uber doesn't decrease drunk driving, study says

Kelly, Heather. "Uber Doesn't Decrease Drunk Driving, Study Says." CNNMoney. Cable News Network, 29 July 2016. Web. 09 Apr. 2017.

Utterance: Uber does not decrease drunk driving

Actors: Uber, David Kirk (University of Oxford) and Noli Brazil (coauthor)
Participants: 
Uber- interest in success of company
Kirk and Brazil- public safety
  • Places and Events: Oxford, Uber cities
  • Organizations: Oxford, Uber, American Journal of Epidemiology
  • Individuals: David Kirk, Noli Brazil
  • View of the World: ?
  • Things that modify, complicate, support utterance:
    • Kirk and Brazil- study of 100 major US cities, audience is general public, context is determining public health influence of Uber, proof was no correlation between Uber and lessened fatalities, this is opposing the success of Uber, financing unclear/none, political significance in opposing large company worth billions of dollars
This article was much more specific than the last article. If I had found this article first, I probably would have had a much different view of the ways Uber is impacting (or rather not impacting) cities around the country. This has shown me that the way in which articles are written is very important to the readers' understanding of a whole controversy. This article does not highlight any ways in which Uber statistically improves the wellbeing of citizens, and as a result it is much less convincing as a whole. As we read in the textbook for class, learning how to state ideas in response to others and "entering a conversation" is one of the most important lessons to learn.





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