Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US

Post by moduspol » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 6:50 PM UTC

slowmovintarget wrote: post #18

The real problem is that this is necessary. This same thing that keeps on happening when we try to reinvent things "without all that stuff that just adds friction." As with software, one should understand the underlying reasons for constraints in the old system before building the second one. Banking -> crypto and NFT "without all that stuff..." -> wash trading. Taxi service -> Uber "without all that employer stuff..…

Post by rkomorn » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 6:50 PM UTC

gmueckl wrote: post #72

xenospn wrote: post #8

That might be tough - I remember having plenty of women drivers back in 2012 when uber and Lyft just got started. These days they’re extremely rare.

This might be mitigated somewhat by offering female drivers a similar options to limit themselves to female passengers. It would ovviously only work whwre demand is actually high enough.

Post by stackedinserter » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 6:51 PM UTC

Post by marky1991 » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 6:52 PM UTC

EGreg wrote: post #74

marky1991 wrote: post #24

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What is your justification for that? If an employer did the same thing, would you argue that's also not discriminatory? Or, to pick a notorious example, if a cake shop only agreed to sell to straight couples, would that be the same? If not, why not?

My libertarian view on discrimination (independent of the Civil Rights Act) is this: If a service is not widely available in the region, any systematic discrimination leading to refusing to provide service, or specific level of service or care, based on anything unrelated to the ability to provide it, should be illegal, locally, in that community. Rules like ousting disruptive customers apply across the board. If a s…

Post by dchftcs » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 6:53 PM UTC

RajT88 wrote: post #42

irl_zebra wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This incident is creepy enough that I would also not agree to a give a random stranger a ride home, absent any additional context or mitigations. Maybe to avoid waking up in an ice bath with my liver gone. But, to not give a ride because of some perceived idea that they would claim you assaulted them or something is a bit "this person should go touch some grass" or whatever.

The world we live in is one where women being assaulted is an order of magnitude larger problem than women falsely accusing someone of assault.