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Apps pressure delivery riders into courting danger – here’s what needs to change

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par Andres Fielbaum, Lecturer in Transport, University of Sydney

Picture this: you’re competing in a time-trial cycling race along a route that’s not known in advance. Instead of following a marked course, you receive instructions via notifications on your mobile phone.

Looking at your phone while cycling is extremely dangerous. But to stay on track, you must consult it nearly continuously.

If such a race took place on the streets of a busy, car-oriented city like Sydney, you would likely opt out. Yet food-delivery riders face precisely this situation every day: they receive order notifications while riding, and if they don’t check them,…

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