SheTaxis: Women's Special taxi service

The recent deaths of single women have been a major concern, with the black taxis being one of the main reasons. The single last month has occurred 2-August 20, Chongqing wrong female students were killed by drivers, August 27, female students in Jinan railway station by the driver imprisoned 4 days of abuse. How can we avoid such a thing happening? Entrepreneurs in many countries have come up with ideas for the introduction of female-specific taxis. And a start-up company in New York is about to join the fray.

The start-up company's name is SheTaxis, the founder of Stella Mateo, a mother of two daughters. This is a taxi service for both drivers and passengers, as is the case for women in many countries, SheTaxis also uses pink as a logo-female drivers wear pink shawl scarves. The difference is that female users will be called by the app installed on their smartphone, paid to the company in the form of a bundled credit or debit card, and then transferred by the company to the driver. This process is similar to Uber, Lyft, drop-by-taxi, quick taxi, etc.

The service, which will be launched September 16 in New York's Westchester County and Long I., is due to the fact that local regulatory policy in New York does not allow taxi to be named in the company's name, and SheTaxis's registration in New York is SheRides, and next year SheTaxis plans to expand to Washington, D.C., Chicago and other cities. The app has only the iOS version, but plans to launch the Android version in the future.

Although this is a female-specific taxi service, SheTaxis has adopted a more flexible approach to the joint venture. Anyone can call a car by SheTaxis, when the user uses its app to call a car, the app asks in advance if there are any women in the passenger, and if the answer is no, redirects the request to another taxi service.

Stella founded the company for two purposes.

One is to ensure the safety of female passengers and drivers. As mentioned above, on the one hand, the existence of black cars is a major hidden danger of women's safety, on the other hand, although the rental industry has introduced a number of security means, such as division by isolation, security cameras, GPS positioning, but the driver of passengers are still killed. A pure female service environment for the secretary on both sides will be more secure.

But to promote women's employment in the taxi industry. The taxi industry is dominated by men. In the case of New York, only 2,952 of the city's nearly 60,000 drivers were female and the proportion of female drivers accounted for only 5%. The New York iconic yellow taxi driver accounted for even lower, only 1%. The industry's discrimination against women is very serious, so Stella hopes SheTaxis's launch will help more women find jobs in the industry. Although we know of a human being called a female driver, in fact many taxi companies say that the best employees are often women.

SheTaxis currently has 6 employees. 50 female drivers have been recruited, ranging from 21 to 70, with a large age span. Stella's husband, the founder of the New York State taxi drivers ' union, which has 30,000 taxi drivers, may help her recruit more female drivers.

The appearance of the female-specific taxi service shows that the industry is more and more broken down. But as we discuss the efficiency of the bidding, the main problem facing the industry is the lack of resources, even the car can not be hit, let alone a female-specific taxi? The amount of hundreds of people is obviously a drop in the bucket, which is why many people take the risk of taking a taxi. Therefore, it is still a long way to go in order to solve the problem of women's taxi safety and convenience.