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 reviews of greater than 4,000 cases 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 reviews on its platform had elevated from round 1,100 in 2017 to some 1,800 in 2019. But it surely stated bookings elevated at the next price throughout that point, leading to a 19% drop within the general incident price.
Lyft stated greater than 99% of its journeys had occurred with none security incident.
“Whereas security incidents on our platform are extremely uncommon, we understand that even one is simply too many. Behind each report is an actual individual and actual expertise, and our purpose is to make every Lyft experience as protected as we probably can,” Jennifer Brandenburger, head of coverage growth and analysis, stated in a company blog post.
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 supplied the ride-hailing business’s first detailed security report.
Uber on the time disclosed it had obtained some 6,000 reviews of sexual assault associated to 2.3 billion journeys in the USA in 2017 and 2018.
Lyft, which providers 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 price was the identical as Uber’s.
Not like 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 reviews.
