Why do parents let their 13-15 year old girls take Uber home from concerts at midnight?

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Anonymous wrote:we let our kids use uber/lyft. youngest started at 14 and is now 16. the notifications go to my account. seems way safer than a taxi to me, because there's a record of the trip and it's instantly saved to the cloud.

really don't see the big deal. we let them walk outside BY THEMSELVES TOO if you can believe it!

I'm sure there were also records of the trips, instantly saved to the cloud, in the many cases where Uber drivers assaulted or raped passengers. As someone noted above, just Google it. The reports you'll get are not local gossip; they're news stories with police input, charges filed, etc. and a search will turn up many recent incidents-- we're not talking about some early problems at Uber's start; were talking about criminal incidents in recent weeks. All there to see if you choose to get past your belief that Uber as a company somehow cares about your kid's safety.

Having a record made of every trip apparently didn't deter the drivers who have assaulted passengers.

There is a difference between encouraging kids to be intelligently independent and putting kids into situations that are risky. But the "we're no helicopters, but YOU are" parents seem to believe that acknowledging risk and avoiding it is the death of all independence. I hope their kids grow up knowing how to listen to their guts and steer clear of situations that feel unsafe to them, because their parents aren't teaching them that.