CA may fine Uber $1M for allegedly not suspending drunk drivers
Uber is facing a potential $1.1 million penalty from California regulators for 151 instances of failing to enforce a “zero tolerance” rule against allegedly drunk or otherwise inebriated drivers.
Those drivers may have been drunk or inebriated, according to the California Public Utilities Commission, which announced Wednesday it is proposing an investigation into Uber.
But under regulations developed by the CPUC for so-called transportation network companies like Uber and Lyft, instead of opting to make Uber drivers take substance tests, Uber was supposed to enforce a zero-tolerance program where drivers reported as inebriated in any fashion are immediately suspended pending further investigation.
Uber received 2,047 zero-tolerance complaints between August 2014 and August 2015, the CPUC wrote, and deactivated drivers in 574 of those complaints.
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