They should be able to. I have spoken with several drivers who are afraid of taking female passengers because of spurious assault allegations.
I'm having a hard time imagining how this topic of conversation would even come up?
But I don't think you were asking genuinely and just wanted to be snarky without contributing to the conversation :)
To answer the original question, wherever there is any power imbalance, there will be abuse. Priests, teachers, parents vs children; boss vs employee; "vulnerable" females vs "aggressive" males. A man complains about assault by a woman, everyone laughs. A woman complains about assault by a man, he gets thrown in jail.
It comes up from time to time if you watch Uber driver videos. There's a reason why many drivers have a camera that records the interior of the car: alcohol + entitlement can manifest in many ways.
Most commonly, passengers cancel the ride and expect to be driven to their destination anyways. But worse stuff happens from time to time.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14385395/leidy-gonz...
Seconds of effort!
https://www.record.com.mx/contra/conductor-acusado-falsament...
hmm...
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/daily-mail/
> Overall, we rate Daily Mail Right Biased and Questionable due to numerous failed fact checks and poor information sourcing.
If you have specific examples of stories on those topic that contain factual errors I'd like to see them.
I do know people that have been / are currently victim of that. Except it goes far beyond simple allegations (after marriage breakup).