Uber is finally letting women riders in the US match with women drivers

Six years ago, Uber launched an advantage in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which allows women drivers to apply to ride to contact with female passengers. Since then, the feature of “women’s preferences” has emerged to 40 countries, from Argentina and Brazil to Canada, India and Mexico.

Within a few weeks, this feature will finally split its way to the United States, the company said on Wednesday. Uber plans to experience feature in Detroit, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Women will be able to put a preference for a woman driver in the Uber app, which increases her chances of the match. After completing this, when a female passenger asks for a journey, they will see a choice called “women’s drivers”. If the waiting is longer than expected, the contestant can choose another trip, according to Opper.

Driver women can switch their settings into “preferences of contestant women”. This setting can be changed if the driver wants to receive flight requests from all bikes.

Passengers such as Uber and Lyft have escalated with ways to improve safety and attract the widest group of users-both on both sides of the driver and the contestant. But it was not an easy way.

The safety of riding was a long -term issue, which often incites defenders and organizers against companies such as Uber and Lyft. Despite the rare, sexual assault reports and deadly attacks have only fueled those concerns.

Uber I mentioned 36 The death of the physical attack in 2021 and 2022, according to the last American safety report issued last year. Uber noticed that the physical deaths of the attack jumped from previous years. While accidents still constitute a small part of the 1.8 billion trip that was conducted in 2021 and 2022 in the United States, the height prompted the company to launch a variety of features to increase safety, including contestants and options verified to ride audio and video records.

Sexual assault incidents have been constantly decreased since Uber began reporting data in 2017. Uber has reported 5981 sexual assaults from 2017 to 2018, and this number decreased by more than half to 2717 from 2021 to 2022.

Meanwhile, Uber and Live sought ways to attract more female drivers. The two companies have more women than women – for example, about 1 out of 5 Uber drivers in the United States. The feature of “women’s preferences”, designed to give both the contestants and the driver some control, can help more users on both sides.

Uber was the first main horse riding company launched the advantage of women’s preferences. However, the Lyft competitor was the first to provide a matching feature for women in the United States-its basic market.