A video that has now gone viral showed when a woman by the name of Vicky’s rideshare driver told her very creepily that she must stay in his car while she was trying to get out. The video, who was posted by Vicky Bond or @_vickybond on TikTok, has accumulated over 34k views since being posted on November 14th.
In the video, Bond had recorded the driver telling her to stay inside of the car. Upon further questionining in the comments, she said that the incident had occured in Birmingham, England and claimed the man was an Uber driver.
“No no no you will stay in my car,” says the Uber driver in the video.
“No, I don’t want to stay in your car,” Bond replied back.
“No because you don’t want to go back to sleep, the driver said. “You don’t want to go back to home. You will work with me until 5.”
The man laughed shortly after and Bond again said that she wanted to go home.
Many of the users in the comments stated they didn’t feel safe when traveling alone in a rideshare or a taxi due to risk of harassment or assault.
Recely, a lawsuit from July claimed that Uber was aware their drivers were sexually assaulting and raping their passengers but had failed to implicate anyone over it and didn’t implement better safety measures.
In 2018, Uber revealed they receieved more than 3,000 reports of sexual assault in that year alone. A spokesperson for Uber said that they suspend drivers’ licenses temporarily, as well as their access to the app while an investigation is ongoing. According to Uber, once enough information on each case the drivers would be banned from ever using the app again.
The spokessperson stated, “There is no place for this kind of behavior in the Uber community and we investigate thoroughly when reports are made to us, Typically we temporarily suspend drivers’ access to the platform during investigations before taking appropriate action which can include a driver’s permanent removal from the platform.”
Back in October, Lyft also admitted to receiving more than 4,000 sexual assault reports during rides between 2017-2019. The company stated that approximately 1,800 reports were just from 2019 alone.
Alison Turkos is a woman who had sued Lyft after allegedly being sexually assaulted by her driver. In her lawsuit she said that the rideshare companies just ignore the reports.
Turkos had tweeted, “Rideshare sexual assault is a systemic problem and one Lyft actively chooses to ignore, It is exhausting holding a billion-dollar tech company accountable but I will never back down. We deserve better.”
Others responded in the comments of Bond’s video saying they just thought the driver was joking around with her but she misunderstood it.
However you take it, many say the interaction was creepy and remembered some similiar situations where a driver had said something inappropriate to them.
Others in the comments of Bond’s video mentioned that they just thought the driver was trying to joke around but was misunderstood.
But many said the interaction was creepy and some recounted similar situations in which a driver acted inappropriately toward them.
“I had a driver like this once and I haven’t been in a taxi or Uber alone again,” another user wrote. “It was so scary and creepy!”
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