A service that “was awaited by many parents”. The most famous VTC platform is launching “Uber for teenagers” in France from Wednesday 30 October, a new feature that allows teenagers aged 13 to 17 to travel independently with a driver, guaranteeing peace of mind for parents, Uber promises.
This feature will allow minors to use Uber, but above all to free up time in the schedules of parents, who spend on average 2 hours a week to drop off or pick up their children, according to a study conducted by the American company, which specifies that for a third (34%) of them this percentage even rises to 4 hours a day.
Uber has focused on safety by offering parents the ability to monitor their children’s movements live with real-time updates, as well as requesting the driver’s name, vehicle information and destination, so they know exactly where they are and it’s going. Furthermore, only experienced and high-level drivers can perform these trips.
To set up this new feature, “the parent must go to their Uber profile and invite the teen to create a page, and the teen will receive a request through their Uber account that they have previously created,” indicates the company, which adds that each teen account must be linked to an adult account. “As far as prices are concerned, they will be the same as a normal trip”, specifies the VTC company to Le Parisien.
The first round offered
To ensure that the child gets into the correct car, he or she must provide the driver with a unique PIN code without which the driver cannot start the journey. Sensors and GPS data are used to detect if a trip veers off course, stops unexpectedly, or ends prematurely. To reassure parents, Uber offers them the option to contact the driver at any time during the journey.
A novelty that arrives at just the right time as Halloween approaches, an evening in which parents often let their teenage children out on the streets of their city to go door to door, especially because the company offers the first Uber ride for teenagers in 23 euros from 30 October to 28 November.
From Wednesday the service will be available in the 13 cities of Amiens, Angers, Bordeaux, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier, Nantes, Nice, Paris, Perpignan, Strasbourg and Toulouse, as well as in the Paris region.
Please note that this feature has already been available in the United States for a year, as well as in some European countries since the end of September. It was initially available in Portugal, before arriving in Italy, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Croatia, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Lithuania, Malta, Norway, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden and Turkey.
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