Uber Says 3,045 Sexual Assaults Were Reported in U.S. Rides Last Year

By Kate Conger
New York Times
December 5, 2019

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In its first safety report, the ride-hailing company detailed sexual assaults, murders and fatal crashes through its platform.

Uber said on Thursday that it had reports of 3,045 sexual assaults during its rides in the United States in 2018, with nine people murdered and 58 killed in crashes, in its first study detailing unsafe incidents on the ride-hailing platform.

The number of incidents represented a fraction — just 0.0002 percent — of Uber’s 1.3 billion rides in the United States last year, the company said.

There are few comparable figures to judge Uber’s safety record against. The New York Police Department, which keeps a register of sex crimes and rapes that occur on transit systems, counted 533 in 2018.