u/FusRoDah4Life

Most cars come with a child-lock that makes it so that the door can not be opened from inside and this is a safety feature meant to protect children from opening car doors when seated.

However, people with bad intentions can and will absolutely use this to coerce payments, threaten or straight up kidnap vulnerable people.

To all the women and the children that use ride-share services please absolutely make sure you can open the door from the inside BEFORE you enter the vehicle.

Basic check can be done this way if you can't locate the child lock on the door:

1. Pull the rear window down.
2. while still OUTSIDE the car put your hand in and open the door
3. If you can open it then, your ride is not using a child-lock, if however you are not able to open the door then WALK AWAY. No matter the justification, you need to walk away. Rather be safe than sorry.

I saw a recent post about a woman being extorted by the driver and wanted to bring this PSA to you.

Please share this so we can keep each other safe.