What is the ruling on a woman riding alone with a driver?

Question:
Is it permissible for a woman to ride with a limousine driver in the city of Riyadh? Is this seclusion? It is known that there are cars on the road, and the route from work to home is not empty of cars and pedestrians.

Answer:
No, a woman does not ride with a limousine, nor with anyone else who is not a mahram, if there is only a man and a woman in the car who is not lawful for him. This is not permissible, neither in Riyadh nor elsewhere, nor in markets where there are cars, nor in other places. For even if people are in the streets and cars, who knows what is happening between the man and the woman in the car? Who knows? And who can control the driver if he intends harm to the woman? Who can control him and save the woman from him? The steering wheel is in his hand and the car is in his hand. Have you not read the news published in one of the newspapers about a woman in Taif who rode with a limousine driver? When he intended to assault her while driving, she tried to stop him, but he refused. So she threw herself out of the car onto the sidewalk while the car was moving, and the woman was injured. This is proof that a man cannot be trusted with a woman, and it is more severe in a car because the car is in his hand. If he intends evil, who can save the woman from him? Yes.