Uber, which has a major sexual assault problem that becomes worse late at night and on weekends — when women typically use the service in an effort to be safe — has reportedly averaged a sexual assault or sexual misconduct report in the United States every eight minutes over the course of five years.
Court documents obtained by the New York Times reveal that Uber received a staggering 400,181 reports of sexual assault and sexual misconduct between 2017 and 2022 — a problem far more prevalent than what the popular ridesharing company has suggested.
Uber, which reportedly has internal teams of data scientists and safety experts studying the problem for years, has claimed to be one of the safest travel options while it launches aggressive campaigns insisting serious attacks against
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