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Uber will let women drivers and riders request to avoid being paired with men starting next month.
(www.uber.com)
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.
In before perverts registering fake accounts and requesting women-only pickups from remote places.
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.
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.