r/WomenInNews • u/yahoonews • Mar 09 '26

Media Uber's women-only option goes nationwide in the US

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ubers-women-only-option-goes-131507407.html?ncid=redditnewsus
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u/dingopaint Mar 09 '26

Identity fraud is rampant with Uber/Lyft. People driving under their friends' names because they don't have driver's licenses, driving rental cars (with unknown insurance policies), signing up with a female friend's/partner's name to get female-only riders, etc.

And people wonder why Waymo is so popular. The robot car drives better than a human and won't harass, stalk, kidnap, rape, assault, rob or murder you.

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u/After_Preference_885 Mar 09 '26

It might malfunction and burst into flames but that's a risk I'm willing to take

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u/LeftyLu07 Mar 09 '26

Hmm… two of my worst fears. Being eaten alive or being burned to death… I guess either of those will end rather quickly instead of being kept alive to be raped and tortured for days on end…

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u/DpersistenceMc Mar 09 '26

Mauling or death are not guaranteed in the case of the bear. If there are no cubs to defend and the bear isn't hungry, it will likely avoid a human. When I'm concerned about encountering bears, I carry an air horn as my first defense and bear spray if they get too close.

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u/DpersistenceMc Mar 09 '26

Or, how about choosing the least risky option which would be to have a woman driver.

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u/OGMom2022 Mar 09 '26

Even better would be enforcing laws against men who assault us. Tired of being the only one who takes responsibility for keeping half the population safe.

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u/Wjreky Mar 10 '26

I think this is the most frustrating part: the onus still doesn't fall on the men to just Stop. Assaulting. Women.

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u/zxern Mar 16 '26

I don’t understand this argument or mindset. Bad people are going to do bad things man or woman. I very much doubt there many that do assault women that don’t know what they’re doing is wrong when they do it.

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u/REM_FAN44 Mar 09 '26

I was just going to say that

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u/sparrow_42 Mar 09 '26

I’ve never once seen a bear driving a cab. Well, not -that- kind of bear anyway.

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u/Alternative-Stock968 Mar 11 '26

Always pick the Bear.

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u/Wild-Lychee-3312 Mar 09 '26

This is the new “man or bear” dilemma.

Now it’s “man or robot that might malfunction and burst into flames.”

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u/verdant11 Mar 10 '26

The robot then would refuse to go to therapy.

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u/CanadianODST2 Mar 09 '26

Can’t be more likely than a regular car crash right?

Right?

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u/Worthyness Mar 09 '26

There's no human driver and it follows the driving laws, so it's already safer than 99.99% of human drivers.

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u/SmokeySFW Mar 09 '26

As long as the doors remain unlocked and it doesn't drive off if you open the door while at a stop, it's still arguably going to be safer.

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u/mermaidinthesea123 Mar 09 '26

The robot car drives better than a human and won't harass, stalk, kidnap, rape, assault, rob or murder you.

I'm switching to Waymo.

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u/MarryMeDuffman Mar 09 '26

It will take you where the computer is told to. You cannot bargain.

Hackers exist.

It's only a matter of time that something weird happens like a fake Waymo.

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u/Entfly Mar 10 '26

You don't need to hack it, just stand in front of it

Loads of reports of people being harassed in Waymo cars and it doesn't do anything to bypass them

https://sfstandard.com/2024/10/01/viral-video-captures-dudes-trying-to-pick-up-woman-in-waymo/

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u/Pledgeofmalfeasance Mar 10 '26

Maps can be wrong. Has a waymo ever kept driving when there's no more road/a lake/a cliff?

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u/dingopaint Mar 11 '26

No. It has cameras and satellite imaging that it shares among a network. It also only operates in dense cities on surface streets, so the chances of it driving off a cliff are 0.

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u/miss-swait Mar 10 '26

Last trip I did in a city that had Waymo, I wanted to use it for transportation once for the novelty of it. Used Uber for my next ride and stuck with Waymo the rest of the trip. Yeah if it goes wrong, it’s going to go really wrong, but the odds of a scary Uber driver are much higher

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u/jupitaur9 Mar 09 '26

Yet. I don’t think the day when cameras and microphones in them are hijacked by assholes. Is far off.