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Victorian woman Kathryn Beaton says repeated, illegal denials of service from drivers refusing to allow her guide dog into their vehicles have left her effectively housebound.

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[–] 404CameranotFound@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you read the article, it’s due to service animals. People are refusing people with animals because they think that service animals will shit and piss in their car, likely.

That and I think this is cherry picking data. What’s the data for anyone with a pet? How can someone even tell if someone’s blind? I don’t think it’s about being blind, it’s about the pet, she just can’t see the person drive up, see a dog, and drive off.

[–] Skray@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Real service animals are well trained enough to not misbehave or damage property.

Unfortunately many people who don't have trained service animals claim they do.

In the US at least you are allowed to ask what task the dog is trained to perform (but not what illness/disability the person has), and can have the dog removed if it is out of control or not housebroken, but service cannot be denied due to allergies.

Yeah, I know that. How Uber will enforce a change will be interesting (if they even did anything)