Fair point. I think there’d certainly need to be some safeguards in place. But if I drag my feet at work I get reprimanded then fired. If someone is consistently taking longer than the amount of time that traffic should allow for, or receiving complaints, then there could be repercussions there.

And to the point about workers sitting around getting paid despite no deliveries coming in, I’m not entirely sold that people shouldn’t be paid to be on-call. After all if it’s a slow day at a pizzeria the cashier still makes the same amount. Sure they’d have to limit the number of people making deliveries at a given time, but half as many people being paid real wages might be better than twice that many being paid poverty wages and kept on the hook in hopes of a windfall. (I know the person this is replying to didn’t bring this up but I’m just thinking out loud here)

The article says that the hourly wage would be for “trip time” IE time spent actually making deliveries, not sitting around like you suggested in you post. And why is ending tipping a bad thing if the workers can expect reasonable pay for their time? Why force them to essentially gamble their time away on whether they’ll receive a fair tip?