#1weapon common sense..it's over looked by 90% of drivers

 

Keep it all in perspective. As much as I support the Second Amendment, remember that your biggest danger comes from traffic accidents.
Before losing sleep deciding which wonder-boomer to carry … how about a curved mirror for blind spots?

 

Yes curved mirrors for blind spots can make for excellent self defense weapons. If you get a really big one you can use it as shield, also really helps to confuse your attackers. Nice one.

 

One of the best weapons/self-defense gear items because it's legal everywhere, including with Lyft/Uber's rules, are tactical gloves:

Amazon.com : tactical gloves

They help you out if you get in a tussle because they protect your fingers if you're doing some intense grabbing, punching, or twisting with your hands. They usually have a hard plastic shell over your knuckles which acts like brass knuckles, but is perfectly legal. If you put them on or wear them while driving, it will look like you're wearing driving gloves, but the criminal element will probably recognize what they are and may make them more wary and reluctant to start anything.

 

One of the best weapons/self-defense gear items because it's legal everywhere, including with Lyft/Uber's rules, are tactical gloves:

Amazon.com : tactical gloves

They help you out if you get in a tussle because they protect your fingers if you're doing some intense grabbing, punching, or twisting with your hands. They usually have a hard plastic shell over your knuckles which acts like brass knuckles, but is perfectly legal. If you put them on or wear them while driving, it will look like you're wearing driving gloves, but the criminal element will probably recognize what they are and may make them more wary and reluctant to start anything.

Steel shot gloves. Not as heavy as the old led shot gloves. Weighted. Police have used them for decades.

Your knuckles will feel fine.
Their Face will not.

 

How about a " cell phone tazer" ?

 

bot? Bot... BOT!
You're more of a bot than c3pO and r2d2 combined... Your grammar/typing/wording is too perfect, I don't recall seeing any emojis from you nor have I ever seen you quote anyone else or respond...
But once you prove me wrong, I'll still apologize.
Somehow I doubt you can prove it, will you accept your MISSION IMPOSSIBLE?

How do we get you disavowed?

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.

I second the motion!... And have reported sopranored as well... Too bad, I like redheads 🤣

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!

Run away from this work like Forrest Gump unless you just looking for something to do (retired) or beer/weed money... In the long run you WILL REGRET trying to make rideshare driving a full time job.

For close quarters protection I go old school.

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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.

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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.

I do like the idea of a breaker bar but I knew there was some kind of reason I "accidentally" left my wheel bearing seal puller in the storage cubby of my door panel. Being a former mechanic, I should be able to tell a good story for it's need if questioned.
Seal puller

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??

I would bet on sarcasm, if not then suffering from an id10t error?... Rider background checks will never happen...
But i do think uploading a valid ID with real names and real pictures in case tracking is needed... is fair.

I will equate it to Pi currency, it's digital bitcoin if you will, created by Stanford and Harvard types, it is to be a way of payment for internet/app services and use of... Right now all you have to do is mine your daily free pi (open the app, watch an ad) but they are close to "mainnet" (real use of currency) the useable apps are in development... But to transfer my nearly 5k pi to the mainnet and prove you're not a bot like @sopranored you have to upload an ID to prove that you are human or not a black market hacker/terrorist ...

If anyone would like an invite lmk you earn more pi if you are apart of a team/group!

 

The main goal of the.45 round is it's "knockdown power". It doesn't just blow a hole in an attacker,; it knocks them down. It's actually a very slow bullet, giving it more time to transfer energy to what it hits, instead of just punching a clean hole.

I myself shot and killed a guy with a .357 magnum, but almost got stabbed by my attacker, after he took 3 solid hits. The bullets did their job, but left him standing on his feet. He went down after taking a swipe at me with his knife. I changed to a .45 Colt Officer's Model the next day.

Years later, I was in a shootout with a scumbag trying to rob a 7-11. That guy took a .45 round to his right leg. I shot through the car's door, and hit the scumbag twice. The guy almost died from bleeding out, but not quite. He did donate his right leg, between the knee and hip to his cause.

I will always carry a .45 for street protection. It does a better job. I carried a big .45 on my hip, and an AMT Backup in my pocket. The small gun is used to give me time to get to the heavier hitter.

The picture below is my hit pattern, rapid firing from the hip, 30 feet from the target. I had a couple wild shots, but the vast majority are good body hits. You can't kill what you don't hit.

 

The main goal of the.45 round is it's "knockdown power". It doesn't just blow a hole in an attacker,; it knocks them down. It's actually a very slow bullet, giving it more time to transfer energy to what it hits, instead of just punching a clean hole.

I myself shot and killed a guy with a .357 magnum, but almost got stabbed by my attacker, after he took 3 solid hits. The bullets did their job, but left him standing on his feet. He went down after taking a swipe at me with his knife. I changed to a .45 Colt Officer's Model the next day.

Years later, I was in a shootout with a scumbag trying to rob a 7-11. That guy took a .45 round to his right leg. I shot through the car's door, and hit the scumbag twice. The guy almost died from bleeding out, but not quite. He did donate his right leg, between the knee and hip to his cause.

I will always carry a .45 for street protection. It does a better job. I carried a big .45 on my hip, and an AMT Backup in my pocket. The small gun is used to give me time to get to the heavier hitter.

The picture below is my hit pattern, rapid firing from the hip, 30 feet from the target. I had a couple wild shots, but the vast majority are good body hits. You can't kill what you don't hit.
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Pursuant to the laws of physics the gun pushes you with the same momentum as the bullet pushes the bad guy. Whether someone falls over or not has a lot more to do with his reaction to being shot than the caliber.

 

You can not carry a gun according to Uber’s policy.

 

Whew! Good thing, strangers and potential criminals in my car with guns could be bad, but since they aren't allowed, no worries.

What a relief!

I asked the help department to elaborate on the meaning of the "within the limits of the law"

The way I read the statement, is that you cannot carry a weapon unless you are legally allowed by the law.

Your interpretation is incorrect. This statement is referencing State Laws.

In FL, and at least one other state, it is illegal for a company to prohibit an employee, (and employee covers ICs in this instance) from carrying a firearm in their car. There are a few exceptions, school properties, power plants, and I think courthouses.

I am not an astrophysicist, or a scholar

Even if you were an astrophysicist, what the hell does Space have to do with any of it?

You shooting Martians?

 

I was told by Uber "Drivers using the Uber platform are prohibited from carrying weapons while using the platform". But there was an asterisk in the statement. At the bottom of the page, the asterisk was noted "within the limits of the law".

I asked the help department to elaborate on the meaning of the "within the limits of the law" statement, and they refused to give me any additional information.

The way I read the statement, is that you cannot carry a weapon unless you are legally allowed by the law. Since I do hold a legitimate permit to carry, I will exercise my God Given, Constitutionally Protected rights. I never let anyone see my gun, and my small knife is for cutting seat belts, not a weapon.

 

God isn’t real. You only can kill people legally because of man made laws. If you’re so ****ing scared to walk around society I suggest you leave it, hide in your basement with your castle doctrine and AR15 until some pizza guy rings the wrong doorbell and you murder him out of your pussified sense of fear.

I’m glad I live in a state where Scared little morons can’t have guns all over public spaces.

I was told by Uber "Drivers using the Uber platform are prohibited from carrying weapons while using the platform". But there was an asterisk in the statement. At the bottom of the page, the asterisk was noted "within the limits of the law".

I asked the help department to elaborate on the meaning of the "within the limits of the law" statement, and they refused to give me any additional information.

The way I read the statement, is that you cannot carry a weapon unless you are legally allowed by the law. Since I do hold a legitimate permit to carry, I will exercise my God Given, Constitutionally Protected rights. I never let anyone see my gun, and my small knife is for cutting seat belts, not a weapon.

 

Either way, I would rather be an unemployed Uber driver, because I used a gun to protect myself, than a dead Uber driver, because I let some California jack-off tell me what to do in Pennsylvania

 

Uber drivers are getting killed, because they do as they are told to do.

 

Best weapon is to not do rideshare. /thread.

 

When shooting at someone, if one bullet does not work, try again. Repeat until the intended result is achieved.

Tonight I have 5 guns with me, 38 rounds of 9mm, 16 rounds of .22LR and 50 rounds of .223 Remington. 4 are on my body and the scoped 223 is in the console. Only a .22? Well, a .22 has enough energy to penetrate the skull on one side, and bounce once off the other side for a second path through the brain. I don't recommend the .22LR for torso hits, but my realistic use case for the .22 revolver is practically at contact distance.

Yes, dashcam is also an essential thing to have. Not only for when you are forced to euthanize rabid animals, but also to prove you are not at fault in car accidents and similar.

 

Uber KC is 100% on the money. Killing someone, even a dirt bag that was trying to kill you, is a life changing event. Don't ever carry a gun you do not intend to use.

When my gun comes out of the holster, and enters the work zone, I have already decided to kill something. The only way the situation ends without someone or something dying, is if the situation changes drastically in a very short time. The dirt bag stops attacking you, or some animal stops being a threat.

But with no changes, the decision to kill was made before I drew my weapon. There are a thousand things that happen between the draw, and the gun firing. Pulling the trigger is the last thing. You need to present the threat of death to your attacker. You have to check the backdrop behind your attacker. You need to announce your intentions, if there is enough time. You need to make certain you are on target. You need to keep your emotions in check. You need to fight the very natural urge to panic.

I trained hard for years. When the night finally came, I was scared out of my mind. My heart was racing. My vision blurred, because I stopped breathing. Yes, I forgot to keep breathing. When I fired the shots it seemed like the end of a 10 minute ordeal, when in reality the whole stretch from draw to shot was less than a full second.

If you are not mentally prepared to kill a person, carrying a gun is begging for something horrible to happen. The gun is the worst thing to ever put in untrained hands.

 

Your list of weapons didn’t include your mouth and a disarming manner to de-escalate a situation.

 

Uber will not protect you, the police will not protect you. If a pax goes off on you it is up to YOU to protect yourself. You have that right.
Uber may say no weapons allowed but they are not in my car. It's me and the idiot pax. It is up to me to protect myself.
I carry just the right size with me to easily conceal but also easily access if needed. I'm not Dirty Harry but it will stop the advance. Nobody but me has to know where it is or what it is.

 

Way too many cowards itching to kill another human and bragging about it. But of course, we all know this place don’t attract the brightest minds.

 

Way too many cowards itching to kill another human and bragging about it. But if course, we all know this place don’t attract the brightest minds.

So then what was the magnet that brought you here? Does it need an IQ test? 😂

 

Best thing is to have a plan. What will you do if someone puts a gun to your head? You think they will not shoot you? Chances are they will. Lady Uber driver drove around for hours before she was shot dead. If you are held up and being driven around, your attacker is just trying to get the nerve to pull the trigger.

I have thought about this gunman scenario and come to my own conclusion. They probably will not be wearing a seatbelt, and they will probably shoot me. If I cannot get to my weapon safely, I go to plan B. Plan B, when I see a solid looking pole or large tree, I am accelerating to about 30-35 mph and hitting that solid abject straight on. I will survive, my poor car will be totaled and assailant will be ****ed up, especially when I climb into the back and beat the shit out of them.

 

Best thing is to have a plan. What will you do if someone puts a gun to your head? You think they will not shoot you? Chances are they will. Lady Uber driver drove around for hours before she was shot dead. If you are held up and being driven around, your attacker is just trying to get the nerve to pull the trigger.

I have thought about this gunman scenario and come to my own conclusion. They probably will not be wearing a seatbelt, and they will probably shoot me. If I cannot get to my weapon safely, I go to plan B. Plan B, when I see a solid looking pole or large tree, I am accelerating to about 30-35 mph and hitting that solid abject straight on. I will survive, my poor car will be totaled and assailant will be ****ed up, especially when I climb into the back and beat the shit out of them.

YO MO! when your scenario happens, will you post your dash cam footage of this, bc even with a seat belt and airbag... If you are still able to climb into the back and beat the shit out of them after a wreck... Get the popcorn, bc I think this is a movie Hollywood might buy!

How much for your sim card?

 

I will give you the rights if you give me a better option. I had a friend that complied with an armed robber. The robber put two in his chest just so he would not call the credit card company and turn off his cards. I am with the mentality that someone with a gun WILL use it. I have trained Marines in firearms tactics for almost 20 years. Maybe I am not all there in the head, but when I see news stories, I run scenarios in my head hoping that if needed, I will not make rash decisions. As I asked, please tell me what you would do if held up at gunpoint while driving.

I like your plan

Granted I do want to meet the robber that told your friend why they got shot. 🤣

And i would like to go thru your training class on how to stop someone sitting behind you that has already pulled a gun on you.

How much do you charge? I'm serious this could be valuable!

 

Granted I do want to meet the robber that told your friend why they got shot. 🤣

And i would like to go thru your training class on how to stop someone sitting behind you that has already pulled a gun on you.

How much do you charge? I'm serious this could be valuable!

I do not think you really want to meet the robber. The robber is in a prison in Florida. He was arrested after he was seen on camera shopping in a Walmart with my friends credit cards. He had previously robbed two guys and when he went shopping, the cards were turned off. He explained to the police why he shot my friend. You seem to have all the jokes and criticism, but no answers.

 

grill lighter + hair spray = burn em up

 

An escort left her pepper spray in my car a couple months ago. After i test fired it i decided to put it where i can always reach it in the car. Only once have i been tempted to put my hand on it.

 

Even if you did need to use it inside the car, is that going to be a mess to clean up, so that future pax don't complain?

Idk never used pepper spray in an enclosed space 🤷

An escort (or a freaky girl) once left her bottle of lube in my car...

Sadly, I didn't get to test fire it. 😭

 

Move to Australia

 

The BEST weapon is a shield between you and the passengers.
You will stop most attempts of attack before they happen.
This will may NOT stop bullets, and certainly, your car's windows will not stop bullets, but it is the best place to start.

 

Agreed . Still the best weapon you have is not picked up the pax if you hint just a little trouble.

 

Excuse me if I misread your replies, though some seemed to mock.

 

Google Trunk Monkey I just got mine.

 

This is one area I give a crap what Uber policy is. Better to be judged by 12 then carried by 6. I am a first responders wife and there are at least 2 somewhere in the car, on me or in my purse, as well as taser and OC spray. I also have stickers on my car that says protected by fafo. I live in Texas so odds are, my riders have them too.

 

Woman driving in the DMV, no later than 10.30 pm on weekend. I have a knife, pepper spray , dos karate for 15 yrs . Also my rides are recorded. I let all my passengers know the moment they enter my car. Driving Uber since 2016 on and off. Been fortunate that I never I had issues beside some rude idiots. I will be happy to excit my car and give them my fake wallet letting them know that I have 50$ in it with a fake phone .

 

Glock 19 with an extra mag in case things get really spicy
Rather be deactivated then celebrated at an end of life ceremony .