Uber sued by more than 500 women over sexual assault and kidnapping claims
38 percent from 5,981 in 2017 and 2018 to 3,824 for the years 2019 and 2020. However, that may be correlated with the COVID-19 pandemic which saw a severe drop in ridership from 2020-2021."We’re constantly innovating and investing in the safety of our platform," Uber chief legal officer Tony West wrote in the report.
However, the law firm said that safety is not the company's highest priority."Uber's whole business model is predicated on giving people a safe ride home, but rider safety was never their concern – growth was, at the expense of their passengers' safety," said Slater Slater Schulman LLP founding partner Adam Slater.
The law firm criticized Uber for lax policies related to driver background checks and enforcement. It noted that Uber has"opted to hire drivers without fingerprinting them or running their information through FBI databases... [and] has a longstanding policy that it will not report any criminal activity – even assaults and rape – to law-enforcement authorities."
Uber has yet to respond to the lawsuit, but Engadget has reached out for comment. An Uber spokesperson told that it can't comment on pending litigation, but that the company"takes reports of this nature very seriously and has worked closely with advocates to develop a survivor-centric approach to handling such cases when they arise."
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