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[–] glimse@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wouldn't need it at all if rideshare drivers stopped sexually assaulting passengers

[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There are plenty of sexually aggressive riders too. It's not one sided. We can summarize it thus: people suck.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Perhaps this whole "random people using their regular car to give rides to total strangers" thing was a bad idea...

What if instead the rides were given in specially modified cars that can include some security features for both parties? And in order to pay for this, perhaps there could be some kind of central company that owned the cars and simply hired the drivers?

[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago

That's just crazy talk. Next you'll tell us there should be really big municipally-run cars that a whole bunch of people can ride at once which makes multiple stops. Insanity!

On one hand, yes. On the other hand, have you known many companies that have successfully weeded out creeps that work there?

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

True! Good point

[–] flumph@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

riders were the accused party 43% of the time in sexual assault incident reports