Uber to let women drivers and riders request to avoid pairing with men

Uber On Wednesday, he announced a new feature that matches female drivers and rider in his last movement to address the security on the driving greeting platform.

The new vehicle, which the platform will start to work as a pilot in the USA next month, allows female passengers to match and create a choice in application settings when booking or making preliminary reservations. Female drivers can also choose to use women.

“This is about more options, more control and more comfort when they get on women and drive to women,” Uber’s Vice President of the United States and Canada operations. He said.

The company said that it is not guaranteed that riders will receive their preferences, but the features increase the chances of being matched in practice.

Uber will be a pilot in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Detroit. The company also said that it tested the feature in countries such as France, Germany and Argentina.

This is not the first to enter the gender preferences on Uber’s platform.

Inside 2019After Uber won the right to drive women in 2018, a female driver preference for female drivers in Saudi Arabia. This proposal then expanded to about 40 countries.

For years, uber and Lyft He faced numerous security concerns and questions about the roles of these platforms in various sexual assault and harassment.