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| Saudi women may drive taxis to transport female passengers |
| 2018-02-01 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Saudi women may be able to drive taxicabs from June when women in the Kingdom are officially allowed to drive cars, chairman of the Public Transport Authority (PTA) Rumaih al-Rumaih has said. The PTA is currently making rules and regulations to enable Saudi women to drive taxicabs that will transport female passengers only, al-Rumaih told Okaz/Saudi Gazette in an interview. Ride-hailing app companies Uber and Careem have already announced plans to hire female Saudi drivers. Careem plans to hire more than 10,000 female captains (drivers) by June 2018, Abdullah Elyas, co-founder and chief privacy officer at Careem, was quoted as saying by CNN. "Female captains will help us provide a better service to many women who want to travel but refuse to be driven by men," he said. Careem has already received thousands of applications from Saudi women interested in becoming drivers, Elyas said. |
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