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Aloisius01/22/20251 replyview on HN

As long as they get tips, they will continue to speed.

See: pizza delivery people for decades.


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Terr_01/24/2025

That makes it sound like too much of the responsibility is on drivers.

The history of pizza-delivery itself provides a sharp contrast: Domino's Pizza had a "30 minutes or less" guarantee during the 1980s and grew enormously from it, until a 1993 lawsuit over the accidents/deaths forced them to stop.

That systemic issue didn't come from delivery drivers, it was a top-down policy from the employer.