Uber’s latest embarrassing crisis involves renting out fire-prone cars to its drivers in Singapore.
The ride-hailing startup has admitted it provided the faulty vehicles even though they had been recalled months earlier over a defect that could cause them to catch fire.
Uber said in a statement Friday that it moved to address the issue after one of the cars burst into flames.
The unsettling news was first revealed in a Wall Street Journal article that said Uber managers in Singapore knowingly bought more than 1,000 recalled Honda Vezels and rented them to drivers in Singapore without the necessary repairs.
“As soon as we learned of a Honda Vezel ... catching fire, we took swift action to fix the problem, in close coordination with Singapore’s Land Transport Authority as well as technical experts,” Uber said in a statement to CNNMoney. “But we acknowledge we could have done more -- and we have done so.”
-Source : CNN
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