[Uberdancer]

Ride-hailing app Uber Technologies Inc. plans to sign up women drivers in Saudi Arabia to take advantage of the kingdom's decision to overturn a ban on female drivers.

Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty, head of Uber's operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, said in an interview in Riyadh that the process will likely begin "shortly" before women can start applying for driver's licenses, which is expected to be in June 2018, but would not elaborate.

"We want to create economic opportunities for women as drivers on the Uber platform," he said. The world's largest ride-hailing startup also plans to open support centers for female Uber drivers in the kingdom, with the first one to open in Riyadh, but Gore-Coty did not say when.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...emale-drivers-in-saudi-arabia-after-ban-lifts

 

[bronkdog]

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[Uberdancer]

 

[CrashiusClay]

This is going to go over pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, well.

 

[Blue Poodle]

You watch episode 1?

 

[ABC123DEF]

Ride-hailing app Uber Technologies Inc. plans to sign up women drivers in Saudi Arabia to take advantage of the kingdom's decision to overturn a ban on female drivers.

Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty, head of Uber's operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, said in an interview in Riyadh that the process will likely begin "shortly" before women can start applying for driver's licenses, which is expected to be in June 2018, but would not elaborate.

"We want to create economic opportunities for women as drivers on the Uber platform," he said. The world's largest ride-hailing startup also plans to open support centers for female Uber drivers in the kingdom, with the first one to open in Riyadh, but Gore-Coty did not say when.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...emale-drivers-in-saudi-arabia-after-ban-lifts

"Economic opportunities for women as drivers"? Please. Spare us the horse puckey.

 

[Uberdancer]

 

[Strange Fruit]

So Uber has some sway over there, getting laws changed. Impressive. So will Saudi men who approved of the past, feel proven wrong when they see civilization doesn't crumble when their idiocy is no longer enforced, or are they gonna be similar to USian idiots and double down on some other shitty attitude, like forcing people to have funerals for aborted fetuses or something monstrous like that?

I guess they aren't requiring these women to have been licensed for at least a year. They'll be able to sign up "shortly" before they can apply for DLs.

"Women drivers" are those who drive women. That's actually my porn name: Women Driver. I think they meant female drivers.