Uber, Lyft oppose some bills that aim to prevent assaults during rides

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• FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They’re opposing the bills because the things they suggest won’t do anything their existing safety procedures don’t do, and reading the companies security/safety protocols and the proposed new ones it’s pretty clear that they are not needed.

  In her lawsuit filed against Lyft in January, Willford alleges she was “subjected to unwelcome, nonconsensual sexual contact, touching” and lewd comments during the ride.

  Willford was picked up by a different driver than the person identified in the Lyft app, according to the suit.

  How would these new bills have prevented this? How would they prevent a Lyft driver from letting someone else drive their car to pick up passengers? How would they prevent lewd comments during the ride? Riders can already record their entire trip on their phone if they want. These companies already do background checks. They already suspend drivers if complaints are made and deemed serious/real. They already ban drivers who assault people or who let other people drive for them.

  What exactly do they think these new bills would solve and how?

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  • thesmokingman@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    1. What about ride share companies that aren’t Uber or Lyft that don’t have safety programs?
    2. What requirement do Uber or Lyft have to maintain good safety after, say, they own the market?

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    • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Laws and regulations already exist that all ride share companies have to follow around things like vetting their drivers.

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  • cygnosis@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t know if these bills would help, but there is a need for something to be done. The daughter of a friend of mine was raped by a Lyft driver a few years ago. Going home from a party, she didn’t want to drive because she had been drinking. She thought Lyft was the safer option. It wasn’t.

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    • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s terrible, but you can’t just say “something needs to be done” because a bad thing happened, when the thing wasn’t preventable. Bad people exist, and bad people do bad things.

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• ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  like petroleum companies opposing bills that aim to encourage batteries during rides.

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• pHr34kY@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The bill would jeopardize rideshare services in Colorado “to an untenable degree, and could very well lead to companies that Coloradans rely on exiting the market, raising prices, or reducing the number of drivers,"

  What a bizarre statement. If they exit the market, everything will improve.

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