Lyft Can Now Connect Women and Nonbinary Passengers With Drivers of the Same Gender

The article doesn’t state it outright, but the descriptions by both the writer and Lyft make clear that the goal here is to make female passengers feel safer by giving them a driver that has certain characteristics they prefer.

Two questions leap to mind:

1: Could the *driver* also be able to select passengers for similar reasons

2: Could the driver select passengers for *other* characteristics that will make them feel safer?

Hmmm…