> It’s so much safer, especially for a woman,” she said in a phone interview this month. “You’re not getting in the car with some strange man.”

Sorry, but this just doesn't paas the sniff test. Why do so many young people now assume that everyone in the world is out there to "get" them? How many of these conflicts can be resolved with a simple conversation? Young people decry the modern loneliness epidemic and come back with statements like this?

> But “at night, maybe I’m safer having someone else in the car just in case something happens.”

Oh?