Uber Rented Hundreds of Faulty Vehicles to Drivers and at Least One Blew Up. Lets all say it together Ugh, Uber, ugh Were like five minutes into the companys 1. Days of Change apology tour and more awful Uber news is already coming out. The Wall Street Journal reports that the multi billion dollar startup rented dangerously faulty cars to hundreds of drivers in Singapore, after the model had been recalled. According to internal messages obtained by the paper, Uber knew about the recall, too. The brazen behavior really fits well with the move fast, break things mantra. Essentially, Uber made Singapore the first Asian city where its service would be available, but the company had trouble finding drivers, because owning a car in Singapore is prohibitively expensive. As a slapdash solution, Uber then reportedly set up a separate company that bought cars in bulk from shady importers who operate in a grey area of the law. The cars were cheaper this way. We havent even gotten to the bad stuff yet. Last year, Uber apparently bought over 1,1. Honda Vezels from one of these gray market companies, even though the model had been recalled for a faulty electronic component that could overheat and cause a fire. You can guess what happened next. The Journal describes an incident in January 2. Uber driver Koh Seng Tian had just dropped off a passenger in a residential neighborhood in Singapore when he smelled smoke in his Honda Vezel sport utility vehicle. MTS2_Phaenoh_1061218_CloseUp.jpg' alt='Sims 2 Change Neighborhood Terrain' title='Sims 2 Change Neighborhood Terrain' />Flames burst from the dashboard, melting the interior and cracking a football sized hole in his windshield. Thankfully, the driver wasnt injured, but Uber quickly heard about the incident. Did they pull all of the faulty vehicles off the road Nah, that would be too expensive. 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This isnt your typical Uber is a shitty company story, either. If these claims are true, it seems Uber actually put peoples lives at risk in order to save money. The company reportedly gambled with minivans that could spontaneously combust, because it would be a big pain to fix them, and well, the drivers and passengers would probably be fine. Then it had a party while these explode y cars were still driving people aroundIf you havent deleted your Uber account already, todays a great day to take action. Heres how. Weve reached out to Uber to see if it cares to comment on the Journals story and will update this post if we hear back. Update 4 5. 5pm Uber sent us the following statement As soon as we learned of a Honda Vezel from the Lion City Rental fleet catching fire, we took swift action to fix the problem, in close coordination with Singapores Land Transport Authority as well as technical experts. New Gameplay Options Edit. 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Electronic Arts, Brderbund, Maxis, Nintendo, Superior Software, Acornsoft, Infogrames Entertainment, SA, Zoo Digital Publishing. Platforms. Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS, Wii, Play. Station, Nintendo 6. Nintendo 6. 4DD, Sega Saturn, Play. Station 3, Nintendo DS, Acorn Archimedes, Acorn Electron, Amiga, Amiga CDTV, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, BBC Micro, C6. DESQview, DOS, EPOC3. FM Towns, i. OS, Android, PC 9. GBA, OLPC XO 1, OS2, Ne. WS, Web browser, SNES, Tk, Unix, X1. TCL, Sinclair ZX Spectrum. First release. Sim. City. February 1. Latest release. Sim. City Build. It. December 1. Spin offs. Sim. Farm, Sim City The Card Game, Sim. Copter, Streets of Sim. City and Sims. Ville. Reverse Email Lookup Find People By Email Insider Tips For Universal Studios. Sim. City is an open endedcity building video game series originally designed by developer Will Wright. Developed in Orinda, California, it is published by Maxis now a division of Electronic Arts and has spawned several different editions that have sold worldwide, with the first game in the series, Sim. City, published in 1. The ongoing success of Sim. City has also sparked the release of many other spin off Sim titles, including 2. The Sims, one of the best selling computer games. In the Sim. City games, the player is given the task of founding and developing a city from a patch of green land, defining what buildings are constructed via development zones residential zones for Sims to live in commercial zones for Sims to shop and have offices within industrial zones to provide work through factories, laboratories and farms as well as ensuring their citizens are kept happy through establishing various services and amenities, all while keeping a stable budget. Since Sim. City 2. Sim. City 2. 00. 0, Sim. City 3. 00. 0, and Sim. City 4 allow the player to alter the terrain of the city before building upon it. Sim. Citys game mechanics are based on 2. California development, with each edition featuring similar gameplay elements. Players start from an undeveloped greenfield, cars are the default form of transportation, and earthquakes happen but with some differences in what buildings, disasters and elements of city management are available. GameplayeditThe player acting as mayor is given a blank map to begin and must expand the city with the budget provided. As the city matures, the player may get to place government and other special buildings such as a mayors house or courthouse, depending on how large the city is. The player must supply the citizens services, which include health, education, safety, parks and leisure. These come in the form of different buildings, where each building covers a circular range of service. Inadequate funding of these services can lead to strikes. Cities must also provide basic utilities, namely electricity, water and in Sim. City 3. 00. 0 and Sim. City 4 waste management. The primary source of income is taxation, which can be altered by one percent increments in all versions up to Sim. City 3. 00. 0, and by tenths of a percent in Sim. City 4. Legalizing gambling and placing certain special buildings such as military bases or federal prisons can generate income as well. The player may also make deals with neighbouring cities to sell or buy services, as long as a connection is made to the neighbor for that service this feature was introduced in Sim. City 3. 00. 0. Sim. City is predominantly a single player game the exceptions being a Network Edition of Sim. City 2. 00. 0, and a Unix port of the original Sim. City. 2Sim. City 4 also provides a form of multiplayer gaming with the ability to share regional maps and cities with other players, allowing players to collaborate, but not to interact in real time gameplay. Personal computer versionseditSim. CityeditSim. City on the Mac. Most other releases were in color, but had a similar interface. Sim. City was published in 1. Sim. City series. Sim. City was originally developed by game designer. Will Wright. The inspiration for Sim. City came from a feature of the game Raid on Bungeling Bay that allowed Wright to create his own maps during development. Wright soon found he enjoyed creating maps more than playing the actual game, and so the idea for Sim. City was created. While developing Sim. City, Wright cultivated a real love of the intricacies and theories of urban planning8 and acknowledges the influence of System Dynamics which was developed by Jay Wright Forrester and whose book on the subject9 laid the foundations for the simulation. In addition, Wright also was inspired by reading The Seventh Sally, a short story by Stanisaw Lem from The Cyberiad, published in the collection The Minds I, in which an engineer encounters a deposed tyrant, and creates a miniature city with artificial citizens for the tyrant to oppress. The first version of the game was developed for the Commodore 6. The original working title of Sim. City was Micropolis. The game represented an unusual paradigm in computer gaming, in that it could neither be won nor lost as a result, game publishers did not believe it was possible to market and sell such a game successfully. Brderbund declined to publish the title when Wright proposed it, and he pitched it to a range of major game publishers without success. Finally, founder Jeff Braun of then tiny Maxis agreed to publish Sim. City as one of two initial games for the company. Wright and Braun returned to Brderbund to formally clear the rights to the game in 1. Sim. City was near completion. Brderbund executives Gary Carlston and Don Daglow saw that the title was infectious and fun, and signed Maxis to a distribution deal for both of its initial games. With that, four years after initial development, Sim. City was released for the Amiga and Macintosh platforms, followed by the IBM PC and Commodore 6. Sim City was released in 1. ZX Spectrum 4. 8K 1. K by Infrogrames, programmed by Probe Software Ltd Antony R. Lill, Simon Butler. On January 1. 0, 2. Sim. Citysource code was released under the free software. GPL 3 license. 1. The release of the source code was related to the donation of Sim. City software to the One Laptop Per Child laptop, as one of the principles of the OLPC laptop is the use of free and open source software. The open source version will be called Micropolis the initial name for Sim. City, since EA retains the trademark Sim. City. The version shipped on OLPC laptops will still be called Sim. City, but will have to be tested by EA quality assurance before each release to be able to use that name. Sim. City 2. 00. 0editThe unexpected and enduring success of the original Sim. City, combined with other Sim titles relative lack of success at the time, motivated the development of a sequel. Sim. City 2. 00. 0 SC2. K, released in 1. The view was now isometric instead of overhead, the landscape was not flat, and underground layers were introduced for water pipes and subways. New types of facility included prisons, schools, libraries, museums, marinas, zoos, stadiums, hospitals although they appeared randomly on residential blocks in the first Sim. City, they could not be built by the player and arcologies.