There's A Ride-Hailing App Just For Women

A new ride-hailing company wants to help women feel safer in a stranger's car.
Chariot for Women says it'll be a safer service because it will hire only women and transport only women, with the exception of kids under 13 years old.
"Seems like a really good idea," a man told WBZ-TV. "But you can't get in," a reporter said. "That's perfectly fine," the man told WBZ-TV.
It's not the first women-centered ride-hailing service, and a number of women-only taxi businesses have popped up in other parts of the world in recent years.
Some women welcome the alternative, but as Autoblog points out, some see the service as proof "we've given up on fighting a culture that supports or ignores violence against women," instead of expecting men not to be violent.
The app also plans to include some basic features not offered by competitors, like no surge pricing and a feel-good donation to women-based charities built in to its fares.
Chariot for Women was actually founded by a man. He started the business after an unnerving encounter he had as an Uber driver with an incoherent passenger.
He told TechCrunch he looks forward to possible legal challenges associated with overtly excluding men from the hiring process. He said: "We hope to go to the U.S. Supreme Court to say that if there's safety involved, there's nothing wrong with providing a service for women."
The service will launch in the Boston area April 19.
This video includes clips from WBZ-TV, NTDTV, CCTV and Uber.
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[@RubberusDuckus]

The problem is IF they do successfully get permission from the US Supreme Court to discriminate against a gender, the Supreme Court will open the flood gates to other businesses like this to discriminate against other factors, such as race, religion, sex (male or female) or just about any other reason.
Many people make a comparison of this app to that of Hooter's. The problem with this is that the women hired as servers at the restaurant, is they are hired in the same fashion as an actor or actress. A driver is not performing any kind of "act" and as such their fight will likely end up getting the founder thrown in jail.
Playing devil's advocate for a moment; let's say this is completely successful. What happens when someone wants to open any other business for "Hispanics Only" due to the possibility of a fight breaking out and due to safety reasons, all other races are prohibited from entering?

[@666j1]

Equality though discrimination and segregation. good idea guys!

[@swordofsteel]

yeah, for discrimination!

[@Mentok211]

I identify as a black conforming, multiple system otherkin demisexual dragonborn. Can I get a ride?

[@bubbleman1081]

Can't Uber or Lyft just create a button that allows the passenger filter the drivers by gender or maybe even language or.....

[@nismozx6r]

This is sexism. If you women wanted to be able to get in our smoking rooms men's clubs men's gyms and arguing sexism yet here you are doing the same thing. How is this allowed.

[@evenjsteven9014]

I guess a transvestite could benefit from this as well. Be careful drivers...pick up a lady with man-hands and an adams apple.

[@averagebloke4474]

"Chariot for women was actually founded by a man"... 😅 hahaha no surprise here everything was founded by men.