Uber is launching a feature that will allow both women riders and drivers across the U.S. to be matched with other women for trips, expanding a pilot program aimed at addressing concerns about the safety of its ride-hailing platform.

Uber launched a feature Monday to allow both women riders and drivers across the U.S. to be matched with other women for trips, expanding a pilot program aimed at addressing concerns about the safety of its ride-hailing platform.

The new feature is being rolled out nationwide despite an ongoing class action lawsuit against the policy in California, filed by Uber drivers who argue that it discriminates against men. Rival ride-hailing company Lyft is facing a discrimination lawsuit over a similar offering that it introduced nationwide in 2024.

  • Fedizen@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    There’s a lot riding into that figure: asymmetric policing, asymmetric wealth, racist violence by white to black tends to go unreported, etc.

    Edit: also there is a recurring, unsubtle theme in history of falsified reports for insurance or PR where people will say they were attacked by a black man. There’s at least two notable instances from characters that earned a Dollop episode giving police a description of a fully fabricated black man.