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Skip to main content Currently Reading Uber drivers refused rides to this blind woman and her guide dog. Now the company must pay up FacebookTwitterEmail Lisa Irving, who is blind, said Uber drivers refused to give her rides because they didn’t want her service dog, Bernie, in their cars.Courtesy Lisa Irving Bernie, a Labrador retriever, trained for two years at Guiding Eyes for the Blind to be a service animal. “He was clean, well behaved, very quiet and always under my control,” said his owner, Lisa Irving of Mill Valley, who is legally blind. Yet when Irving would summon an Uber, she said drivers frequently balked at letting Bernie in their cars, even as she explained that the Americans with Disabilities Act entitled her service animal to accompany her. Often the drivers would leave her stranded, needing to find another ride. Sometimes she ended up late to doctors’ appointments or to her work as a liaison to people with mental health challenges. She had a birthday ce

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