The Taxi Business Discovered 4,158 Sexual Harassment Complaints.
Key Sentence:
- According to Lyft, the US taxi app, 4,158 cases of sexual harassment were reported to the company between 2017 and 2019.
- In its first safety report, Lyft also detailed the number of road fatalities and fatal physical attacks during the reporting period.
These cases far exceed the number of sexual assaults reported in three years. Elevator says that "more than 99% of trips are made without a reported safety incident". But it said, "Behind every figure is a man who survived this incident. So put, even one of these incidents is too many.
"This is what drives our tireless work to improve driver and driver safety continuously." Judicial Action Regarding "Bias" In Reviewing Uber'sUber's Face.
Lyft, along with its larger US competitor Uber, committed to disclosing data on significant accidents and safety breaches in 2018. The following year, Uber published 5,981 reports of sexual assault against passengers and drivers between 2017 and 2018.
Lyft has not been able to publish the figures. Of the 4,158 sexual assault incidents Lyft disclosed, 360 were reported as rape. Between early 2017 and late 2019, Lyft said it had recorded 105 motor vehicle deaths and ten deaths from personal injury. Lyft faces several passenger lawsuits in the United States for alleged sexual assault, and the first trial is scheduled for 2022. Uber courts have also been filed in the United States for similar lawsuits.
In its security report, Lyft said the data is based on when the incident was reported to the company, not necessarily when the incident occurred.
It reads: "We recognize that sexual violence is chronically underrated, and it can sometimes take months or years for survivors to be ready to show up and report what happened – if they choose to do so at all.
"With this knowledge, Lyft covers every reported incident in 2017, 2018, and 2019, regardless of when it occurred." The company said that 52% of reports of sexual assault were committed by passengers, 38% by drivers, and the remaining 10% by third parties such as law enforcement.