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Uber Banned In Delhi After Taxi Driver Accused of Rape
RockDoctor writes BBC News is reporting that a 26-year old Indian woman is alleging rape against a driver for the embattled Uber transport-managing company. In a post on the Uber blog, one "Saad Ahmed" implicitly admits that the driver was a Uber driver, that the lift was arranged through Uber's service, and that the full range of Uber's safety mechanisms had been applied to his employment, and by implication, that Uber accepts some culpability for putting this (alleged) rapist into contact with his (alleged) victim. "Our initial investigations have revealed shortcomings of the private cab company which didn't have GPS installed in its cabs and the staff wasn't verified," Delhi Special Commissioner Deepak Mishra said. But Uber says safety was paramount, and added it had GPS traces of all journeys. "We work with licensed driver-partners to provide a safe transportation option, with layers of safeguards such as driver and vehicle information, and ETA-sharing [estimated time of arrival] to ensure there is accountability and traceability of all trips that occur on the Uber platform," its statement added.
Also maybe teaching the women to fight back might help, and neatly do something about overpopulation as well as male fertility would be reduced.
No, I am not victim-blaming. But just sitting there and being a victim does nothing to solve the problem and the law seems to be completely useless in that regard as well (as usual).
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Yes it is. A woman or anyone for that matter should never need to learn to defend themselves because they should never be attacked in the first place. That's the problem that needs solving. Teaching self defense is just putting a bandaid on severed limb. It doesn't nothing to solve the underlying problem.