All of the above.

 

I still have a persiglass and no one can sit in the front seat. Also I tell my riders “ the ride is being recorded by under and police “ o drove in the dmv.

 

I have an open utility knife in my column
and a sharpened end rat tail comb
plus an automatic knife in my pocket
Never felt threatened in 38k rides though

 

I have an open utility knife in my column
and a sharpened end rat tail comb
plus an automatic knife in my pocket
Never felt threatened in 38k rides though

Is Rambo you uncle?

 

First off all of the items on that list are not allowed by Uber or Lyft except for the personal alarm.

You would know that if you were really a driver, but your just a bot, and one giving out harmful information poised as an experienced driver giving advice.

Reported.

From here on out I'm going to ignore this OP, it's up to the moderators to catch this bots bullsh*t and bad advice. And why does it keep changing its avatar? Oh never mind.

By the way the best way to protect yourself is not to get into bad situations in the first place. There are times, places and people to avoid just like one does everyday.

You play in the gutter, your going to get sh*t on you.

 

As said by a guy that drives a Ford F-150, says he picks up in Rich areas, and mostly takes people on Long Highway runs, all markets can't be as easy to you judge people as yours you don't know what the hell you're talking about,

By the way I love your past comments of you have $60,000 already saved up for a new automobile, then in other post you say 75 cents per mile goes to expenses and $0.10 of that is to save up for another car, none of your numbers add up, it's almost like you're a professional troll on this site,

You drive 89k miles per year x $0.75 per is $66k plus per year for expenses

Your gas per year would be about $20k or less
Your truck is paid for you said yourself you had very few repairs on it, so how do you account for around $46,000 in expenses per year, are those Uber expenses, are you including all your personal life expenses in that 75 cents because otherwise your numbers don't Jive.

 

I have pepper spray and a stun gun but I recently ditched the gun and just have the spray now. Realistically, pepper spray isn't good for enclosed spaces. So the likelihood of using it is near zero unless I'm outside of the car. However, I did have one belligerent drunk pax that wouldn't get out of the car, and brandishing the spray was enough to convince him. So like a nuclear weapon, it's more for show than actual use.

ObeyTheNumbers is right though - pretty much all those are off limits. If the drunk pax would have reported me, I would likely have been deactivated on the spot. You're pretty much at the mercy of pax. De-escalation and intuition is probably your best "weapon". Try your best to avoid the problem to begin with.

 

If you do carry, you have to be even more willing to walk away. I had a road rage situation a while back and I was about to get out but remembered I had a little something in the waistband. I had to let it go. I’m 53 and short, I shouldn’t be street fighting anymore anyways. 😂😂

 

My foppish wit has got me out of many a bad situation.

 

What every driver should carry.

 

Not for self defense per-se, but if I had $1 for every time I wished I had one of these mounted to the hood of my car, I wouldn't have to drive Uber any longer.

But that has more to do with idiots on the road than pax.

 

Is this Uber driving worth it with these kind of risks? I am thinking of signing up for it but these comments give me a second thought!

 

I prefer a small revolver in each cargo pocket and a fixed blade anti choke knife between the sear and the center console. And then a full size service pistol IWB for when leaving the car.

 

Ideally we could equip our cars with this:

 

I would think the taser is the best, non lethal, somewhat legal and you can keep a distance. As far as fear of being deactivated an uber eats driver was just robbed, killed and dismembered, id rather be alive than care about losing this wacko job when there are thousands of better jobs out there.

 

For close quarters protection I go old school.

Seriously, I keep a utility razor knife in my driver's door pocket and I usually have a folding knife in there or in the center console.

I have a 20in 1/2 inch breaker bar that I keep in my car on the floor front seat.

Similar to this but thicker and much heavier. It was my grandfather's it's about 50 years old, and heavy. There's a 19 mm deep impact socket with a lug stuck in it attached for added weight.

Not a weapon just a tool. It'll break a stuck lug, window or a jaw.

 

Don't underestimate clorox cleaning spray, great for cleaning the interior of the vehicle.

 

You can blind someone using Clorox which is also illegal better off with pepper spray

 

Bear Spray. Very hard to shoot a pistol backwards when target is directly behind you.

 

Very hard to shoot a pistol backwards when target is directly behind you.

This bothered me for years, especially since I have fairly long arms and it would be extremely difficult to aim at someone in the back seat, especially directly behind me.

Then I started carrying a 9mm on my left hip, with the intent to cross draw with my right hand, mostly because carrying it on my right hip interferes with the seat belt buckle. In a normal situation you shouldn't cross draw. But I realized that the biggest threat of being assaulted likely would come from a male sitting directly behind me.

If it came down to it, I'd simply hunch down, move my body over to the right a little, rotate to the left a little, draw with my right hand, and fire through the seat to the left of my body. Yes there are some structural members in the seat, but most of it is padding and plastic.

 

I keep a 24" breaker bar next to my driver seat for changing tires. And cracking skulls / breaking kneecaps if the need arises.

 

I feel like a hand grenade would be an excellent choice.

 

Me, since that unknown person threatened to kill me for no reason. A week or two ago he threw air punches 👊 at my car with another car behind me, as I was leaving a parking lot. I have taken to my dad's knife, and making sure the pepper Spray and struck ingredients stick is worn around my neck. I am not bothered by him, I know God protects me, I just want him to think what a woman can have.

 

NONE of the above.

The best weapon is the six to ten inch shank Phillips head screwdriver!

 

I have dealt with and seen a lot of trauma.
A knife, or a dagger is not a good defense weapon unless you really know how to use it.
The screwdriver will kill ... tomorrow. Whoever you stick now has many hours of intense rage to deal with you.
He will bleed out, eventually.

Bow hunting is the same way.
99% of the time, you stick a buck with an arrow and watch him stagger around and bleed out. It takes time.

A severed artery (carotid, jugular vein, femoral artery) would be the fastest.
Kidney shot would be fast, too.
Next would be liver (about a half hour).

 

Totally agree with you

 

You have to imagine specific scenarios.

If you get somebody in your backseat and they have a knife or a gun, this is a WORST CASE SCENARIO.

You have to assume the PAX of death will not allow you to live if you continue to drive your car where they want...

You're probably buckled, and now your seat-belt is working against you...

You would have to un-click your seat-belt at a red light or stop sign and quickly jump out of your car.

At that point you'd probably be stabbed at least once, or shot,

but at least you'd be out of the car...

 

You should of been a movie director. I just visualized your entire ordeal and it's very suspenseful. "Ride-share Hostage" in theaters July 4th. 😁

 

Factory Option in South Africa.

If you running Nitrous Oxide to engine already ( for Warp speed/ escape & evasion)you can run cutouts to boost flame throwers.

 

I am toying with the idea of a hidden kill switch . . .
With perhaps a 15 minute delay digital timer.
To let a car jacker get Far enough away . . . Before they are stranded.
( I would Really like to hook it up to 4 pounds of Dupont plastic, sigh laws . . .)
( Maybe a quarter pound and automatic door lock switches, would still send glass & plastic,metal shrapnel flying, probably still a garunteed concussion kill for the car jackers)( don't want to maim innocents)

Could hide it in floor shifter boot. Easy access.
A toggle switch would work.
Enough slack in the boot to work a toggle for years before the leather would wear.
Because I would set switch to off when parking also.
Could be activated without being noticed.

Pretty cheap & simple to do.
Ignition cutoff, maybe electronic fuel pump cut off also.
Could also rig electric diaphragm valve in major vaccume line. Real cheap.

The Important part is the timer. To let them get far enough Away.

Then you can Tell cops, my stolen car is in a 3 mile radius of here .

 

You’ve put a lot of thought into this…😂😂😂

 

A 28 pr. Control cable 1,000 feel long . . . Ends here

For the fortunate Few who end up sitting on a bucket for weeks getting paid overtime to terminate, ring out, itty-bitty wires in a control panel with a pocket sized screw driver.

But first you must pull thousands of feet of cable,across the ship, from 7 stories down ,to 7 stories up in the wheelhouse,or across the plant . . .

Or sometimes you lug up power cables off of 6 g.e. turbine generators with cable the size of your arm.

See, just from this photo . . . I can tell you this dual drill tower semi submersible drilling platform has 4 turbine generators & three piston engines.
Just by the exhaust stacks.
I did not build this one . Never set foot on it

Also has 270 person escape pod capacity


So . . . Yes, I could rig a cheap car kill switch.
Or turn it into a fireball if I wanted.

( They interfere with my pizza deliveries . . . They gonna have a Bad Time )

A lot of pipeline companies Removed turbine generators & compressors on land & replaced them with piston driven engines. Less power but a Lot less fuel consumption.
I did quite a few of those jobs also when Natural Gas prices increased.

 

The best weapon for Uber is the one that nobody knows about.

 

While Uber provides some safety features, such as background checks on riders

Is that a joke? How on earth would Uber manage to conduct background checks on millions of riders in its database, and who would pay for them? Are you really trying to be sarcastic - or are you in fact an Uber mole pretending to belong to the driver community??

 

While many of the items listed above are good for self defense, I suggest an ear splitting noise maker be added to the list so that you can add some chaos to the mix if things go south. Also - don't forget to wear your seatbelt. When all else fails, flooring it and recklessly endangering all the occupants of the vehicle might get them to back off. If I gotta go, My family is going collect big on my insurance and I'm taking the pax with me.

 

I never leave home without my 45 in a holster with my ccw license. I like that in the area of Chicago I can point it at my seat back and know 100% it's going to hit the asshat in the backseat and he won't be a threat after 7 rounds. I look at the defense bullets I use and just shudder thinking about getting hit with one of them. The military used the 45 for over 60 yrs. it's a proven killer. Good thing is if you hit a man in the shoulder, his whole arm is coming off or damn near it. 😄 have a nice day.

 

Sometimes . . . A .45 Will penetrate the shoulder, hit the shoulder blade ,exit the person's side . . . And Kill the person standing Next to them.