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Drivers? Cannot imagine it being a big problem people having really offensive names though, after all you are actually meeting the driver irl and expect them to
by zulln 7y ago
Drivers? Cannot imagine it being a big problem people having really offensive names though, after all you are actually meeting the driver irl and expect them to.. well, drive you.
- DaiPlusPlus 7y agoDrivers have to go the in-personal approval thing first though, and they'd present their driver's license that would have their name on it - so the Lyft/Uber/etc employee who approves their driver status would presumably also verify that their name is real.
- Thorrez 7y agozulln isn't saying drivers are spoofing their names. zulln is saying drivers are being harmed by riders spoofing their names.
- robjan 7y agoIf the drivers are harmed, why not just allow people to use their name regardless of offensiveness and then just display it to drivers as "Professor F*". Sure, it's not ideal but it prevents people arbitrarily being kicked off the system and from drivers being offended by their passengers' names.
- feanaro 7y agoOr, perhaps people just shouldn't be offended by names. There are more important things in life.
- IgorPartola 7y agoIf your driver’s name was Hitler Did Nothing Wrong Nazis Rule, would you want to drive with them? I think name filtering like this is incredibly dumb and have never seen a good implementation of it. But “don’t be offended” is rarely the blanket answer people seem to think it is.
- manquer 7y agoIt is not the same for drivers though. Drivers have to use their real name as in their driving licence . I doubt that a registered legal name is going to be that kind of offensive.
- iddqd 7y agoDon’t know much about Lyft in particular, but with the amount of reports and cancellations you get with a name like that you’d get booted of the platform pretty quickly, no?
- likeclockwork 7y agoI'd want to know if that was their name, so I could not get into their car.
- thiagomgd 7y agoIf that's the person's name, should they be excluded from those apps? Also: shouldn't they change their names in those extreme cases?