Air vacationers stroll towards a Lyft pickup space at Los Angeles Worldwide Airport (LAX) on August 20, 2020 in Los Angeles, California.
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Lyft obtained stories of greater than 4,000 situations of sexual assault on its ride-hailing platform between 2017 and 2019, it stated, detailing the information in a security report it had promised to publish about two years in the past.
The corporate report, issued late on Thursday, confirmed sexual assault stories on its platform had elevated from round 1,100 in 2017 to some 1,800 in 2019. Nevertheless it stated bookings elevated at a better fee throughout that point, leading to a 19% drop within the total incident fee.
Lyft stated greater than 99% of its journeys had occurred with none security incident.
“Whereas security incidents on our platform are extremely uncommon, we notice that even one is just too many. Behind each report is an actual particular person and actual expertise, and our aim is to make every Lyft trip as protected as we probably can,” Jennifer Brandenburger, head of coverage improvement and analysis, stated in a firm weblog put up.
The corporate stated it has invested in security options, employed rigorous driver background checks and consulted sexual assault consultants.
Lyft had dedicated to releasing its report on the finish of 2019, when its bigger rival Uber offered the ride-hailing business’s first detailed security report.
Uber on the time disclosed it had obtained some 6,000 stories of sexual assault associated to 2.3 billion journeys in the US in 2017 and 2018.
Lyft, which companies considerably fewer journeys than Uber, didn’t disclose the full variety of rides it accomplished in its Thursday security report, however at 0.0002% the incident fee was the identical as Uber’s.
In contrast to Uber, Lyft didn’t disclose what share of incidents resulted in drivers being harmed. Uber’s report confirmed riders accounted for roughly half of the accused in sexual assault stories.
