US couple blocked from suing Uber after crash say daughter agreed to Uber terms

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/01/new-jersey-uber-eats-car-crash

by Gabriel54 • 2 years ago

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guidedlight• 2 years ago

I don’t understand how a food delivery order resulted in a personal injury to the customer.

smcin• 2 years ago

Two distinct aspects; the article tells you how (in paragraphs 7 + 12-14):

- Mr & Mrs McGinty were Uber passengers seriously injured in a crash in March 2022

- Uber asserted that Georgia McGinty had previously agreed to their updated ToU via a clickwrap confirmation by someone using Georgia McGinty’s UberEats account and phone on 8 Jan 2022. The McGintys' atty claims the couple does not recall ever seeing that, and hence that it must have been clicked by their [12yo] daughter, who was a minor at the time, while monitoring a food delivery from UberEats.

Seems extremely harsh chain of reasoning to me.

(Actually this would make a good comprehension question to test an LLM: "Summarize the timeline of main events in this article")

US couple blocked from suing Uber after crash say daughter agreed to Uber terms

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