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Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US (www.uber.com)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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When women riders and drivers told us they wanted more control over how they ride and earn, we listened. That feedback led to Women Preferences, features designed to give women the choice to ride with other women. Since our first pilots last summer, we’ve heard just how much that choice matters—from feeling more comfortable in the back seat to more confident behind the wheel.

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[–] 3 points 6 months ago (7 children)

The vast majority of sexual assault is by people who know the victim, not random strangers. This is Uber trying to capitalize on fear to sell a more "premium" product they will inevitably charge more for, not actually helping anyone.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)
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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    I never claimed Uber was 100% safe. There's also plenty of cases of non-sexual assault and robbery. There's way more cases of simple negligent driving resulting in injury and death.

    Uber's own data indicates 99.9998% of trips in 2021-2022 were completed with no safety incident. Now if you want to discredit that self-reporting as biased, fair enough.

    What would you say is the threshold for justifying gender segregation? 99.9999%? 99.99999%? 99.999999%?

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Whilst this is most likely true, I still think it'll provide many anxious women some peace of mind and that might be enough.

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  • [–] -2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I'm sure a lot of anxious Nazi's got a lot of peace of mind in the early 1940's too.

    I sure a lot of anxipis transphobes got a lot of peace of mind when Trump banned trans people from military service.

    Giving anxious people peace of mind it's the point of segregation. That doesn't make it right or good.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Are you comparing being a woman, which means you're comparatively less physically imposing and highly likely to be targeted by any immoral men, to Nazis?

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I'm comparing gender identity to other forms of protected identity: race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc.

    I'm not making any judgements about any group being superior or inferior to another. You're the one doing that. Being "physically imposing" is subjective and variable. There is significant overlap between the largest women and smallest men, and that's just staying withing the confines of binary cis people. Not to mention... Guns exist. Cars themselves are weapons far more dangerous than any human regardless of gender.

    Building a just society means we need to leave behind our biases and fears. To judge individuals not on the circumstances of their birth but the content of their character. That means discarding the luxury of pre-judging people, not just when it is easy, but also when it is hard.

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