“The important thing is not to stop questioning,” Albert Einstein once said. “Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” In this series, we turn to NYU faculty—specialists in their fields—to address the general questions that we all encounter as we move through the world. Here, Arun Sundararajan, professor of information, operations, and management sciences and the Robert L. and Dale Atkins Rosen Faculty Fellow at the Stern School, tackles the question: Why do we trust our Uber drivers?
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