Uber, which makes it easy for contestant women and drivers to find each other

Uber creates multiple ways to do this. First, just by opening the application, customers will see a new option for a woman’s driver’s request. If they reserve a journey in advance, they will also be able to choose a woman’s driver. They can set their settings to indicate the preference of a woman’s driver in all circumstances. The choice of this preference can increase waiting times, as most Uber drivers are men. If the time is essence, a woman can always choose another trip with faster capture.

The feature is not exclusive to passengers. Women can also set their settings to request traveling women, including during peak profit periods like evenings. If they want to receive requests for a trip from all cycles, they can stop the preference at any time. The new feature will first be launched in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Detroit in the next few weeks.

As a safety procedure, uber requires that both cyclists and drivers Check their identity Before using the application. However, if a woman believes that she is associated with another woman, either a passenger or driver, and a man appears, Uber recommends canceling the ride and reporting the accident to the company.

This is not the first time that Uber allowed women to associate via the application. The company issued for the first time the advantage of the preferences of Rider women in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 2019, that is, a year after the nation raised its ban on women’s leadership. Since then the feature has been presented in 40 countries.

Cameel Irfing, Vice President of Uber operations for the United States and Canada, said the challenge is to make the work “reliable”, even while dealing with gender -based preferences.

“Most drivers are men, so we worked to ensure that this feature was truly used in different places all over the world,” Irfing said in a post. “We have tested, listened and polished in markets such as Germany and France, and adapting the advantage of contestants and driver behavior in the real world. As a result, at first for the industry, we can launch more reliable features that provide contestants women multiple ways to match a woman’s driver.”

Since 2019, Uber has released safety reports that reveal the number of incidents reported from sexual harassment and assaults in its cars. Its latest reportWhich was released in 2024 and covers the years 2021-22, he said that there are 2,717 accidents of “serious sexual abuse and misconduct”, a decrease of 22 percent from the previous report.

It is a problem with which the industry has been afflicted for years. In the 2022 feature in freedomDozens of Rideshare drivers talked about their experiences with harassment and assault.

Many have said that they took a pepper spray carrying or other defensive weapons in their cars in challenging the policy of the application that prohibits such elements. All drivers said that they do not feel completely protected or supported by the companies who run their business.