Technology

Are U ok?

~~this argument can be applied to other situations.~~

~~Uber for whites only: "This is a good thing if you ask most white racists"~~

~~The gas chambers: "This is a good thing if you ask most Nazis"~~

~~Just to be clear, I disagree with both the above situations, I just think it's not a great argument.~~

~~Just to be clear 2: I also sympathise with women who feel uncomfortable being driven by a man.~~

Editing because I've thought about it and changed my mind.

My analogies are incorrect; A Nazi or Racist isn't the same a man or woman or a skin colour.

The real issue is, you can't speak for "most women" or "most men" or "most anything" without citing a source.

Building tools that simplify discrimination isn't a good thing (my opinion).

If you think this is justified because "men are dangerous" then you are

1. generalising
2. not realising that people are not evil (source Humankind by Rutger Bregman).

I imagine lawyers are the biggest issue. Anti discrimination laws vary greatly by jurisdiction. This type of de jure discrimination against a privileged group to counter de facto discrimination against a marginalized one is the type of situation that is going to be thorny pretty much everywhere, with differing results everywhere.

There's already an app that does that.

It's called grindr.

They should make an app where you have to swipe right on your driver/passenger, and then the app notifies you and you can strike up a conversation and see whether or not you are compatible for ride-sharing.

I'm a man, but I also prefer women drivers. Their cars tend to be better taken care of and cleaner. they also do a lot better at respecting and pre-empting preferences in regard to heat/music. Maybe it's just my area, but I've actually never had a "normal" experience with a male Uber driver.

Either their car is all clapped out, it's dirty and smells bad, they'll be blasting MAGA rap, or they get real weird with the dropoff. (Like, bro my legs do function and I can walk across the street or down the block a little bit, it's ok, I gave you a different address from where I'm actually going anyway). Never had any issues like that with women as drivers.

I get that they're doing this for reasons of rider safety, but they should let both men and women express a preference.

Honestly, this should be a thing.

I want to ride exclusively with bilingual Mongolian ginger Zoroastrian jazz enthusiasts over 5'10" to feel safe and demand a feature for me to do so.

No flak. I was gonna post the same thing. Women deserve to feel safe too.

Well they'll just show the no drivers available screen and give the rider option to widen the search criteria?

I assume they can still choose male drivers if there are no female ones available.

Lyft has been doing it for a while and it seems to work out.

This also boosts demand for women drivers

Maybe you should not be allowed to choose a lady gyno or any other dr too? Or massage therapist? Or therapist in general. Or hair dresser. Or fucking anything else, huh?

Come on…