Riders
- Request on-demand: When requesting a trip on demand, women riders will see an option called Women Drivers. If the wait time is longer than anticipated, they can always opt for another ride with a faster pickup.
- Reserve in advance: For more planning and certainty, women riders can use Reserve to pre-book a trip with women drivers.
- Set a preference: Riders can set a preference for a woman driver in their app settings. While it’s not guaranteed, turning on the Women preference increases your chances of being matched with a woman driver.
For Drivers
Women drivers can simply toggle on the “Women Rider Preference” in their app settings. If they want to receive trip requests from all riders, they can turn the preference off at any time.
Can I request only men drivers?
Don’t be sexist.
I dunno… I get the motivation but this feels pretty discriminatory.
Women face higher rates of violence from male attackers so no it’s not.
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OK but if I’m a dude and I want to request a dude I can’t, so it is
Men do not face the same threats women do.
as a weak man cant agree
I understand that but that doesn’t make it not discrimination. They are not mutually exclusive
Discrimination: the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of ethnicity, age, sex, or disability.
Is it unjust when men don’t have to fear for their safety in the same way?
This is a false equivalence.
The use above says “it feels” and you answer that it is not.
I understand this is a gendred issue, but acknowledging feelings of people seems like something we should all agree on.
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Is this trans-inclusive? I’m guessing not, stuff like this rarely is; however using services like Uber by myself honestly makes me uncomfortable.
Women are on average trans-friendlier.
While that may be true, I’m concerned about the possibility that they’ll add some form of ID verification and force people to go off their legal gender. As someone in Texas, it is impossible for me to get that changed. Even federally, because despite the recently ruling that is forcing the feds to allow gender changes on passports, Texas will still get mad about you having the “”“incorrect”“” gender.
Whether or not a driver or rider is a man or woman will probably depend on the opnions of the driver or rider, and will not be properly mediated by the company. They probably won’t even have any concrete rules.
So yeah, this will cause more issues for trans people.
Literally the same plot from Bojack Horseman
Next we will see men requesting women drivers specifically, probably followed by the company not actually mediating these interactions.
In the show the company sides with the men who want women drivers exclusively and then it becomes less of a transportation service and more of an “escort service”.
I think I’ve had like 3 female Uber drivers ever.
Unrelated, but one of those 3 closed the window I had opened (because she was too cheap to turn on the fucking AC) on my hand. Fuck that bitch.
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wondering if they will include me as a trans woman
I would certainly hope so.
i’ll note that all the issues raised in the comments would be very nicely solved by proper public transport with cameras in the vehicles, hell many (most?) subways have pretty amazing systems where they have people actively monitoring things and you can discreetly chat with the safety staff to alert them to issues or just say that you’re feeling unsafe.
and yes, i do realize you can’t have subways in rural wyoming, thank you.
In before perverts registering fake accounts and requesting women-only pickups from remote places.
arnt some male drivers exclusively pikcing up woman,
As there are far less drivers than customers, I’d expect it to be much easier to sort out drivers with bad intentions. I guess if you sign up as an Uber driver you have to undergo at least some minimum level of identification (drivers license etc.). A perverted customer can sign up as ‘Lisa Nicegirl’ today and ‘Jenny Innocent’ tomorrow.
If only there were some measures that the company could take to minimize that risk… Wait a second, I can think of half a dozen.
But will they use them? No.
I’m not mad. A really drunk guy got handsy with my wife when she was driving years ago. She busted his nose and dragged him out of the car in stop and go traffic and left him.
Good, people deserve to feel safer.
For just an extra $6 a ride!
So what stops men from using their wife’s account to order an Uber?
The driver will be looking for the wife.
They don’t really enforce profile pics anymore for riders. That might need to change if this is going to be successful.
Is this CABRACADABRA?
Cool, I expect demand for female drivers is to increase a lot.
In ideal world that would not be needed, but if that increases woman safety, that’s a good thing.
