Lyft is rolling out a new feature for women and nonbinary users to help make the ride-hailing experience more comfortable for riders and drivers.
Women Plus Connect, announced Tuesday, is an opt-in, preference-based feature that works to match up women and nonbinary riders with women and nonbinary drivers. If you’re a female or nonbinary Lyft driver, you can toggle the feature on or off in the driver preferences section of the app. Women and nonbinary riders will see a prompt that says, “Count me in” or “No thanks.”
For now, the feature is only available in Chicago, Phoenix, San Diego, San Francisco and San Jose. Lyft said it will expand to more cities in the coming months. The company also said that riders and drivers in the initial cities will be able to update their gender in the app.
