All-Female Ridesharing To Debut In Boston (qz.com)

HughPickens.com writes: Scores of women have reported assaults by Uber drivers... Now Jenni Avins reports at Quartz that a ride-sharing service that only uses women as drivers, Chariot for Women, is set to launch April 19 in Boston, featuring more stringent background checks and additional steps to ensure riders correctly match with their drivers.... "[U]nlike other services, Chariot for Women features a patent-pending technology that will provide both users and drivers with a code after a request is made that will need to be verified upon starting the ride," reports Glamour. But "whether it's legal or not is a different question," says Joseph L. Sulman. Quartz reports that "According to civil rights lawyers, Chariot for Women's female-only policies could put it squarely in the crosshairs of gender discrimination lawsuits, which would be difficult to win." Founder Michael Pelletz says he welcomes the legal challenge. "We want to show there's inequality in safety in our industry," says Pelletz. "We hope to go to the US Supreme Court to say that if there's safety involved, there's nothing wrong with providing a service for women."

Comments

Re:This will be fun

[PopeRatzo]

As a trans woman, I'd really appreciate if dudes stopped trying to fuck stuff up for us.

I'm sorry, but that's really all we know how to do. Well, that and scratch ourselves.

Re:This will be fun

[PopeRatzo]

Source?

You must be joking. You might as well have asked a golden retriever to solve a partial differential equation.

Re:Totally illegal

[Anonymous Coward]

The funny thing about safety is that probably these women will be less safe by getting into a vehicle driven by a woman.

Re:This will be fun

[AK Marc]

There are some who deliberately go to bathrooms to rape people (though fewer of them than republican senators, even though there are far more trans people than republican senators).

I thought that most of those who go to bathrooms to rape people were Republican senators.

Re:Legality

[russotto]

What's next, female only shopping malls because the sexist pigs might look at a glorious woman with lust?

Now there's an idea.. "Honey, can you come shopping with me?"... "Sorry, the mall just went woman only, remember? Why don't you go with Helen instead?"

Re:Legality

[Anonymous Coward]

Hi, I'm Johnny Cab!

Re: This will be fun

[x0ra]

if she's a cute female-to-male trans with all the right stuff in place, I don't mind trying to convince her otherwise ;-)