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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I realize that it is different for boys than for girls, but my 15-year old son has been taking Uber around NW DC for months.  No problems at all - and I think it is safer than having him just hail a cab - there is a record of the pickup and dropoff, the drivers are screened, etc.

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Same.  I feel safer with my kid in an Uber than I do having him ride the Metro alone at night (after rush hour).  I felt the same way about my daughter as well (she's now 19 and off in college).

I wish Uber/Lyft/Rydz had been a thing when I was a teen instead of having use cabs and our small town sketchy bus service.  I missed 2 weeks of school due to a surgery, which meant I didn't have enough classroom hours and couldn't pass driver's ed in school so I had to take it over the summer.  My mom could drop me off at the bus stop each morning, but both parents worked and the bus stop was too far for me to walk home in the afternoons, so my mom scheduled for me to be picked up by a taxi each day.  The first day the taxi pulled up, he had another a guy in the passenger seat with him and said it was his cousin who was "hanging" with him for the day.  They went a very long, convoluted way back to my house to run up the fare (didn't realize that part) and I was 100% convinced I was being taken somewhere to be killed.

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