In report, Uber discloses 3,045 sexual assaults, 9 murders, and 58 people killed in crashes out of its 1.3B US rides in 2018
and we need to do more to address the horrific reality of rampant sexual assault happening every day across our country. https://twitter.com/... Ed Bott / @edbott : These are horrible numbers but also reflective of the imperfect and extremely violent world we live in. I'm encouraged that they reported this and we can have a conversation about what it means. https://twitter.com/... Tony West / @tonywest : Today @Uber does what no other tech company has done: voluntarily publish a Safety Report detailing our greatest challenges and how we're addressing them. Avoiding tough topics like sexual assault is common but we believe it's time for a new approach. http://www.uber.com/... Marcelo Calbucci / @calbucci : I'm surprised at the outrage at Uber. Do you know how many people are raped and murdered by taxi drivers around the world? What if Uber is 10X safer than getting into a taxi? https://twitter.com/... @uber_support : @MitchGayns Thanks for reaching out about the US Safety Report, @MitchGayns. Our Uber Support team isn't able to answer questions directly, but you can learn more here: https://www.uber.com/.... If you're interested in Uber's overall approach to safety, see more at https://www.uber.com/safety. Brianna Wu / @briannawu : If you don't measure something you can't improve it. Glad to see @uber releasing the data publicly for sexual assaults. Most tech companies would bury difficult information, like they do with the number of women they hire for engineering roles. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Lauren Peikoff / @laurenpeikoff : WOW: Uber received 5,981 reports of sexual abuse between 2017 and 2018. 235 reports of rape in 2018. https://www.nbcnews.com/... Bethany S. Mandel / @bethanyshondark : This makes other women apprehensive about taking Uber right https://twitter.com/... @dhh : These numbers are just astounding... now combine this with the company's history of undermining and investigating rape victims. Maybe think twice about getting into an Uber by yourself? https://twitter.com/... John Paczkowski / @johnpaczkowski : Previously: Uber tries to convince us that thousands of customer service complaints with the word “rape” in them are inflated because of people with names like “don draper” https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... Noah Shachtman / @noahshachtman : How do you justify taking an @Uber after this? https://twitter.com/... Jess Davidson / @davidsonjess22 : These numbers from Uber are scary, but my take is that they're reflective of the reality of sexual violence, not of something unique to Uber. I'm grateful for @Uber's transparency on these #'s, and want other gig economy companies to release the same data http://www.uber.com/... Brian M. Rosenthal / @brianmrosenthal : New report: During all Uber rides in 2018, there were: —9 murders —58 people killed in crashes —3,045 sexual assaults (The company noted that 99.99 percent of rides were safe) https://www.nytimes.com/..., by @KatieConger @amy_siskind : OMG! Boycott this company: “In a lengthy report, which divides sexual misconduct into 21 categories, Uber said it recorded 235 rapes and thousands more cases of assault.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Casey Newton / @caseynewton : Absolutely awful. Yes, the problem of predatory taxi drivers predates Uber. But the scale here is sickening https://twitter.com/... Apoorva Govind / @appyg99 : 99.9% of Uber trips ended without any issue; only 0.1% ended with a safety-related report (mostly complaints about driving behaviors, like harsh braking); only 0.0003% of trips had a type of serious incident! Loving the transparency https://www.uber.com/... Geoffrey A. Fowler / @geoffreyfowler : How safe is Uber? - 235 people were raped in U.S. Ubers last year - Drivers report sexual assaults at about the same rate as passengers - 107 people died in U.S. Uber-related crashes in 2017-2018 - 0.0003% of trips report a critical safety incident https://wapo.st/38deGE8 Greg Bensinger / @gregbensinger : Wow. 3,000 sex assault victims is A LOT and it's just U.S. and a lot of victims don't come forward. The worldwide figure has to be much much higher. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Stacy-Marie Ishmael / @s_m_i : “Drivers, passengers and third parties were all murdered. In cases of rape, Uber said that 92 percent of the reported victims were riders. But drivers reported other types of sexual assaults at roughly the same rate as riders, Uber said.” https://www.nytimes.com/... Anne Helen Petersen / @annehelen : this makes me nauseous https://twitter.com/...
Doing the right thing means counting, confronting, and taking action to end sexual assault. My heart is with every survivor of this all-too-pervasive crime. Our work will never be done, but we take an important step forward today. http://uber.com/safety (1/3)
The reaction to the NY Times' (accurate) child safety series and Uber's safety numbers is helping separate those commentators who actually care about the abuse from those looking for lazy dunks. A demonstration of why so few companies voluntarily publish anything.
235 #rape allegations a year! And what about the unreported ones? And other ride shares?: “Uber unmasks its sexual assault problem, reveals thousands of abuse reports a year.” #Uber https://www.nbcnews.com/...
The staggering number of sexual assaults in ridesharing demands urgent reforms, as I've demanded repeatedly. Lyft & other companies must follow suit with transparency reports of their own. https://www.nytimes.com/...
1. The sexual assaults in “ridesharing” are a tiny fraction of sexual assaults that happen during commutes each day in the US. Hundreds of thousands of commuters are subjected to sexual and other forms of assault on buses and trains in US cities such as DC, LA, NY, Boston... http…
this is the right frame and context for this data. The journalists have been hating on Uber as if Uber is responsible and Dara committed these crimes. https://twitter.com/...
As a survivor of sexual assault, It is heartening to work for a company that is putting all it's resources behind building the safest platform possible. Transparency and accountability is hard but necessary to ensure we are doing the right thing. https://twitter.com/...
The Uber example is also indicative of a basic problem in measurement: only the companies that care to measure will know about their abuse. So we have (large) numbers from the largest players and know nothing about the long tail and little about pre-tech prevalence.
I think there is a basic disconnect between those people who see various kinds of horrible types of abuse as: a) Innate in humanity b) Only created by tech platforms c) Innate but amplified or enhanced by tech In most cases, c is the right mindset.
“There is no law, regulation or lawsuit that is forcing Uber to make this data available,” said Tony West, Uber's chief legal officer. “We are doing this, frankly, because the public has a right to know.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Interesting that it's split almost 50/50 in assaults reported by passengers & drivers #Uber $uber the NYPD received 1,125 complaints of sex offenses in the transit system during the same time period #ridehailing $lyft https://twitter.com/...
So I am glad that Uber is releasing these numbers, but I am also turned off by the way they're doing this. “most don't reveal this data!” “don't forget sexual assault is common everywhere!” It reads as a press release meant to garner applause. https://www.uber.com/...
Weird. @uber didn't bother to disclose the 3000 assaults to passengers. Zero tolerance is kinda meaningless with the reality of a small town worth of sexual assaults. That is some transparency. @UltraViolet thoughts? https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
When I'm forced to use Uber or Lyft and I don't feel safe, I call a friend and talk the whole way. I shouldn't have to do this. https://twitter.com/...
Context: Uber does 1.15 billion rides per year. So ... roughly 3 incidents of sexual assault per *million* rides. Let's say 0.0003%. That's better odds than women get at universities. 20% report sexual assault in college (per DOJ), so *5%* of any large group per school year. http…
The only truly acceptable number is, of course, zero, but this is data from a period in which “an average of more than 3.1 million trips took place each day.” As a woman who has frequently traveled the US alone, I strongly prefer Uber/Lyft to taxis, mostly for safety/reliability.…
This is appalling. We need to regulate tech giants like @Uber to ensure they put safety first—and we need to do more to address the horrific reality of rampant sexual assault happening every day across our country. https://twitter.com/...
These are horrible numbers but also reflective of the imperfect and extremely violent world we live in. I'm encouraged that they reported this and we can have a conversation about what it means. https://twitter.com/...
Today @Uber does what no other tech company has done: voluntarily publish a Safety Report detailing our greatest challenges and how we're addressing them. Avoiding tough topics like sexual assault is common but we believe it's time for a new approach. http://www.uber.com/...
I'm surprised at the outrage at Uber. Do you know how many people are raped and murdered by taxi drivers around the world? What if Uber is 10X safer than getting into a taxi? https://twitter.com/...
@MitchGayns Thanks for reaching out about the US Safety Report, @MitchGayns. Our Uber Support team isn't able to answer questions directly, but you can learn more here: https://www.uber.com/.... If you're interested in Uber's overall approach to safety, see more at https://www.ub…
If you don't measure something you can't improve it. Glad to see @uber releasing the data publicly for sexual assaults. Most tech companies would bury difficult information, like they do with the number of women they hire for engineering roles. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
These numbers are just astounding... now combine this with the company's history of undermining and investigating rape victims. Maybe think twice about getting into an Uber by yourself? https://twitter.com/...
Previously: Uber tries to convince us that thousands of customer service complaints with the word “rape” in them are inflated because of people with names like “don draper” https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
These numbers from Uber are scary, but my take is that they're reflective of the reality of sexual violence, not of something unique to Uber. I'm grateful for @Uber's transparency on these #'s, and want other gig economy companies to release the same data http://www.uber.com/...
New report: During all Uber rides in 2018, there were: —9 murders —58 people killed in crashes —3,045 sexual assaults (The company noted that 99.99 percent of rides were safe) https://www.nytimes.com/..., by @KatieConger
OMG! Boycott this company: “In a lengthy report, which divides sexual misconduct into 21 categories, Uber said it recorded 235 rapes and thousands more cases of assault.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
99.9% of Uber trips ended without any issue; only 0.1% ended with a safety-related report (mostly complaints about driving behaviors, like harsh braking); only 0.0003% of trips had a type of serious incident! Loving the transparency https://www.uber.com/...
How safe is Uber? - 235 people were raped in U.S. Ubers last year - Drivers report sexual assaults at about the same rate as passengers - 107 people died in U.S. Uber-related crashes in 2017-2018 - 0.0003% of trips report a critical safety incident https://wapo.st/38deGE8
Wow. 3,000 sex assault victims is A LOT and it's just U.S. and a lot of victims don't come forward. The worldwide figure has to be much much higher. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
“Drivers, passengers and third parties were all murdered. In cases of rape, Uber said that 92 percent of the reported victims were riders. But drivers reported other types of sexual assaults at roughly the same rate as riders, Uber said.” https://www.nytimes.com/...