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Not even allegedly, she was raped and apparently Uber's background checks were trash and didn't follow proper city laws so they got banned in New Delhi. The guy admitted the rape and claimed he'd raped others, he's serving life in prison and he threatened rape victim with murder and raping her with an iron rod. She was a 26 y/o financial executive and sued Uber and settled out of court. Yeah if you're getting strangers to drive women alone at night, I'd hope you'd follow proper background checks.

Just read some other links in article and they were also sued for having at least 25 riders be former sex offenders, sexual assault, and murderers just in Cali wtf. I seriously want to see how many sexual assaults have occurred in uber vs taxis. I see one every day from Uber just in Cali. If taxis did that they would lose their 250k-million dollar medallion so that's an incentive I guess to an archaic regulation. I know others disagree with me, but I would not hire any felons to be drivers. You're giving them complete power over any passenger with no witnesses. I'm completely okay with felons working anywhere with people, but I wouldn't hire one to babysit my kid. That's the similar level of power they have in a car at night and honestly most rape assaults I've seen, the perpetrators had priors

parent propman 9 years ago

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