An undercover investigation of the Uber car-hailing service caught its drivers sexually harassing female passengers and blatantly violating various city regulations, according to a report released Tuesday by celebrity private eye Bo Dietl.
One alleged harassment incident involved a lecherous Uber driver telling a rider “that the people in Bangladesh would love her because she is attractive,” according to the report, which was commissioned by the Taxicab Service Association, an industry group opposed to Uber.
Other alleged wrongdoing included drivers cutting illegal side deals with passengers for future trips and making a curbside “hail” pickup — which can be made legally only by yellow cabs — near Union Square.
One driver even claimed a fellow hack once took a drunk woman on a $250, three-hour trip that should not have taken more than 10 minutes — and ended only because the woman woke up, the report says.
The TLC said Uber on Friday coughed up its electronic trip records — which the TLC plans to check for any violations of city law.
A spokesman for Uber said the company hoped the TLC would “earnestly and closely safeguard” the information, and said the claims in Dietl’s report “have no merit.”


