A new study from ?Who?s Driving You"? says Uber and Lyft are hurting the communities they propose to support A new report, written with support from the taxi industry, slams transportation network companies (TNC) such as Uber and Lyft and challenges statements suggesting they provide outsize benefits to the communities they serve. Titled "The Expanding Transportation Network Company (TNC) Equity Gap: Adverse Impacts on Passengers with Disabilities, Underserved Communities, the Environment & the On-Demand Workforce," the paper claims that Uber and Lyft aren?t living up to their rhetoric when it comes to helping underserved communities and people with disabilities. 
Dave Sutton, spokesperson for Who?s Driving You", the taxi industry-backed group pushing the report, notes that, "This paper unequivocally asserts that unchecked proliferation of TNCs, such as Uber and Lyft, has set back efforts to reduce congestion and pollution by decades." While the funding behind the paper, and its author, former Commissioner of the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) Matthew Daus, suggest reading it with a grain of salt, it raises some key issues surrounding the expansion of these companies, and has been peer-reviewed by Patricia Gatling, former New York State Deputy Secretary for Civil Rights and the longest serving New York City Human Rights Commissioner; Isabelle Ducharme, Chairman of the Board at Keroul, a Quebec-based organizati...