Nearly 6,000 US sexual assaults reported to Uber in 2017 and 2018
San Francisco: Nearly 6,000 instances of sexual assault, including more than 450 cases of rape, were reported to Uber in the United States in 2017 and 2018, the ride-sharing company said in a report on safety released on Thursday.
It is the first time that Uber has released the figures — which also revealed 19 fatal assaults related to the company over the two-year period — as it and rival Lyft face increasing pressure to cope with the growing number of complaints of abuse.
The company received 464 reports of non-consensual sexual penetration and 587 of attempted non-consensual sexual penetration in 2017 and 2018.
The other assaults fell into categories such as non-consensual kissing or touching.