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- n Seattle, the main finding was that African Americans had considerably longer waiting times for rides — as much as 35 percent more. In Boston, the researchers could measure the cancellation rates of the drivers from some services after they had preliminarily accepted ride assignments. They modified their experiments so that some students hailing rides used “white-sounding” names while others used “African-American-sounding” names. They found more frequent cancellations — roughly twice the level for white-sounding names — when the students used African American-sounding names. Male passengers requesting a ride in low-density areas, such as in the country or suburbs, were nearly four times more likely to have their trips canceled when they used an African American-sounding name than when they used a white-sounding name.