The other night at the grocery store a woman with a cart and groceries approached me in the parking lot, asked if I (a male) could give her a ride home. Was probably innocent enough, but I declined. No way I'm going to accept even the possibility that she'd claim I did something, with no witnesses. That's just the world we live in and it's sad in a way. No trust anymore.

I hope Uber drivers have in interior camera running in their cars, for their own protection.

> picking Waymos instead.

Can you pick Waymos? I was in Austin with my daughter who Ubers quite a bit (because dear God there's nowhere to park in that damned city) this weekend. She called an Uber and a Waymo showed up and she was grateful because she prefers them too, but she said that she's not aware of a way to specify that you just want a Waymo.

Fully agree and am pretty disappointed reading replies on here. Anyone familiar with the demographics of this forum? What % male is it? If you have women in your life, ask their thoughts on this. It’s easy to not understand problems that don’t exist for us.

I drove for Uber back in like 2016, right around when Pool was introduced. Picked this dude up and then had to stop to pick up another fair, he saw it was a woman's name on the app, and when she called me to figure out where I was at he immediately started yelling sexual stuff into my ear piece.

Of course she immediately hung up and cancelled the ride. I drove a few blocks in the opposite direction he wanted to go and threw him out of my car.

That's how he acted with me in the car. Can't imagine how he would have been alone with a female driver.

Not necessary and unfairly punishing working men and defacto creating a 50% quota larger market share for female drivers.

What does "creepy" mean here? It seems like we're lumping in claims of men being creepy with men committing violence. Being creepy in and of itself is not a good reason to institutionalize discrimination.

EDIT: How intellectual of you, HN.