China's biggest ridehailing company will bar female passengers after 8 p.m (opens in new tab)

(businessinsider.com)

7 pointstdurden6y ago5 comments

5 comments

The source of the problem is that these ride-hailing companies want to expand so fast, that they do not perform any substantial screening for their drivers.

Another ride-hailing company, Hitch, was suspended for this reason.

Likely they do this for liability reasons, not safety reasons. Because if a female customer is not able to get a taxi ride after 8pm, they have fewer options for transportation.

Bostonian6y ago

"after 2 women were murdered"

is the rest of the title (truncated due to space limitations). No company wants to limit its sales to 1/2 the population, but if it thinks it is necessary to do so for safety reasons, I don't think the government should interfere.

BoiledCabbage6y ago

WTF type of logic is this? You can stop your employees from killing people, so the decision is ban the types of people your employees like to kill?

It's insane how much of an echo chamber HN has become in justifying any action that ignores any grounded reality as long as it means more revenue.

And the obligatory "government shouldn't intervene" aside.

rasz6y ago

Screening is expensive and puts pressure on work force availability resulting in higher wages, nobody has time for that in China.

Wowfunhappy6y ago

Should they also be limiting it to elderly people? Or people who aren't overly buff? Maybe all passengers who ride after 8pm should be required to take a martial arts class?

The point I'm trying to get at is, if it's not safe for women, it's not safe for many other classes of people as well.

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