Bolt strengthens women’s safety in ride-hailing services
- Published on 11/02/2026 13:28
Bolt unveils a 2026 roadmap dedicated to women’s safety in ridesharing with self-defense workshops and smartphone dashcams.
The rideshare platform Bolt announces an ambitious action plan to enhance women’s safety during rides with drivers. Developed after a consultation in collaboration with L’Importante involving associations, experts, users, and female drivers, this 2026 strategy aims to sustainably transform the experience of urban private transport. The challenge is twofold: to improve real protection and to enhance the feeling of trust, which has become a key criterion in choosing a mobility service.
Never again victims!
The first concrete measure: the launch of free monthly self-defense workshops open to all women, whether clients or drivers. Supervised by professionals, these sessions combine simple physical techniques, stress management, and self-assertion in public spaces. Bolt thus aims to go beyond the mere issue of the vehicle to act on the overall safety of daily movements. These workshops begin in Paris before gradually expanding to Lyon, Marseille, Bordeaux, Nice, and Montpellier.
The second strong axis: onboard video protection through a technological partnership transforming the driver’s smartphone into a certified dashcam. This solution allows simultaneous recording of the road and the interior without costly hardware investment. Bolt is focusing on a subsidized subscription to promote widespread deployment in rideshare vehicles while maintaining data confidentiality, which is only kept by the driver.
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The Bolt 2026 roadmap is structured around four pillars: development of the Women for Women offer and feminization of the rideshare driving profession, training and prevention against sexist violence, strengthening of deterrent and assistance technologies, and information and empowerment of users. The platform plans a biannual review to assess the effectiveness of the measures and adjust its safety tools based on actual urban mobility usage.
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This page is translated from the original post "Bolt muscle la sécurité des femmes dans les VTC" in French.
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