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The book The UBER Driver describes one man's experiences driving thousands of passengers from varying backgrounds through the streets, highways, and towns within the New York metro, using the rideshare platform, Uber. It tells a story of immense hazard, danger, discovery, and sometimes the excitement of interacting every day with the mobile public, from the happy drunks of Hoboken, the super-rich of Edgewater, and Manhattan to the infected and dying patients of the Coronavirus. This book occupies a unique position, as one of the few books that were written in real-time, when covid19 was raging and rampaging the world and especially the New York metro. It shall remain a source of enormous information for anyone seeking the chronicle of the pandemic from the eyes of someone who was on the frontline. Since a hundred years from now, humans will like to know how their ancestors lived and finally survived the worst pandemic in recent memory. The UBER Driver also presents a wealth of information to any user or prospective user of rideshare, either as a driver or passenger. This information should be useful as a guide for better interaction between the two parties, the driver and passenger. In the chapter, Rideshare vs. Taxi, the author gives a scholarly dissection between the two modes of personal transportation, which might be an immense resource for any meaningful researcher. In order to tell the story of the experiences of rideshare drivers, using an Uber driver as a case study, as it relates to a wide range of behavior, occasioned by diverse characters, the author quit his job, drove Uber for almost three years, gave rides to thousands of passengers in the process, then one day, sat down and wrote about it. Due to limitations to the size of the book, he could only tell the story of less than one percent of his many passengers. Because if one wants to write about how it feels to have malaria, he or she should visit the tropics, get exposed to the malaria parasite, get sick, recover from it, and write all about it. One does not sit in a café in the middle of Manhattan or Paris and imagine how it feels to have malaria and attempt to write about it.
