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Car-service apps promise safety, but that turns out to be one big lie

Car-service apps didn’t just sell convenience. They sold safety.

That was the quiet bargain at the heart of ride-sharing’s rise: Ubers were supposed to be safer than taxis; you wouldn’t have to text your mom or a friend a photo of the taxi driver’s name and hack license plate as you step in. 

Rather, you’d see a name, a photo, a plate number right on your phone.

Your ride would be tracked. Someone would know where you were.

If something happened, there’d be accountability.

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That promise is now unraveling — and Uber’s response has been to turn on the very women who believed it.

The company is facing a wave of lawsuits over sexual assaults involving drivers, including cases in which women allege they were raped while using the service.

In one recent trial, Uber was ordered to pay a woman $8.5 million, the first verdict of its kind.

Rather than prompt a reckoning, the case exposed something dark: internal communications showed Uber executives dismissing rape victims as liars and........

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