Uber forced to apologise to blind student after driver refused to let his guide dog in car because it was against his RELIGION.
Charles Bloch used the firm's app to book a cab to take his Labrador Carlo to a park in Leicester, but the driver refused to pick up the dog because it was an 'unclean animal' and might 'try to lick him'. Mail.
There is an incorrect assumption in this that we do not have the right to make decisions on or own behalf. It is the same side of the coin to those appalling, modern situations when the Law overrules your personal conscience and insists that you must do something which deeply offends you. Uber should have immediately sent another driver at the behest of the original driver.
