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Re:Uber ordered to pay $1.1M to blind woman refused rides by NoPicklez on Monday April 05, 2021 @10:19PM (#26707288)
I agree with people with service dogs should be picked up and blind people.

But my thoughts drifted to what if a driver without allergies picked up a passenger with a service dog, that driver would then presumably need to spend time vacuuming the car such that another passenger with allergies isn't also impacted?

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Re:Uber ordered to pay $1.1M to blind woman refused rides by vkou on Monday April 05, 2021 @10:53PM (#26707490)
That could be a reasonable accommodation. Another reasonable accommodation would be to send another car.

Imagine if the Uber driver himself had a dog, and showed up to pick an allergic passenger up. What would the reasonable accommodation be in that case? Depending on how severe an allergy is, no amount of vacuuming is going to make a ride in such a car pleasant for the passenger.

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