[pepperball]

As a man, I never understood how bad this was. I have only felt unsafe in an Uber a few times, mostly because the driver should have had their license revoked due to their advanced age.

Without going into too much detail, I’ve learned just how bad it is. On the “less” vile end of things, my current parter had some desperate slime try to offer her money for sex. I made sure he reported him, but Silicon Valley loves to enable sex criminals, I imagine he’s still out there.

[toomuchtodo]

This is why Lyft enables women to order a woman driven Lyft.

https://www.lyft.com/women+

Uber received 400,000 reports of sexual misconduct from 2017 to 2022 - https://web.archive.org/web/20251023145410/https://www.engad... - August 7th, 2025

> Uber only disclosed 12,522 serious sexual assaults during the same period.

Uber’s Festering Sexual Assault Problem - https://web.archive.org/web/20251023144648mp_/https://www.ny... - August 6th, 2025

[MichaelNolan]

Uber does offer a similar setting in some markets. It took a while to roll out in the US because of legal uncertainties. So Uber waited until the feds gave them a promise that no action would be taken related to offering a “women only” or “women preferred” feature.