Uber said it was starting a program to allow passenger women to choose female drivers or share a tour with other women, drivers who should start in the coming weeks in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Detroit.
In a press release on Wednesday, Uber said that women customers will see an option called “women pilots” in the application. If the waiting time for a driver is longer than it wishes, he can choose another ride – probably with a male driver – for faster collection, the company said.
“In the United States, rider women and drivers told us that they wanted the option to be equaled with other women during travel,” Uber said in his press release.
However, longer waiting times could be a problem for women who want to be picked up by a driver, since Uber said About 1 of its out of 5 drivers are women. Customers can also pre-reserve journeys with women’s drivers, the company announced on Wednesday.
This is what we expect to find out more during this pilot. Pilots may experience longer waiting times if women’s drivers are not available or further. If this is the case, they can choose to wait, to book a trip with a woman driver for a later period, or to choose a lap with any available driver who does not correspond to their preference, “said a Uber spokesperson in an email to CBS.
The runners can also define a preference for women’s drivers in their Uber settings, which will increase the chances of being paired with a driver, although such a match is not guaranteed, said the company.
Likewise, Uber drivers who are women can also ask for trips with horsemen, including during peak hours when they can earn more, said the company. Women’s drivers can switch the “women preference” option in the settings of their applications to be paired with female customers, he added.
Uber offered similar programs in other countries, deploying its “preferences of riders” in Saudi Arabia in 2019, after women had the right to drive in this country. “Since then, the functionality has extended to 40 countries, making more than 100 million trips,” said the company.
In 2023, the carpooling company LYFT spear It is Women + connection Characteristic, which corresponds to non -binary women and drivers with more women and non -binary riders. Functionality is available in all American cities in which Lyft operates.
