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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Uber cars have an Uber Logo sign in the window and you can verify with ID who your driver is.

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OP, I have a teen DD too. Please tell you child no.

And please don't tell your child to "look for the Uber logo". I can't believe the PP is blithely saying that a sticker on a car is good enough. And a teen who is inexperienced might end up getting into whatever car happens to have an Uber logo on a window and could easily forget to check the driver's ID or ask the driver to confirm the name of the passenger who called. Is a teen who's been drinking really going to be sure that the car with the Uber sticker is the one he or she called? Will that teen really check ID in that situation, at whatever odd hour it is?

That teen could end up like the woman who was kidnapped and raped by a former Uber driver who happened to still have his Uber logo on his car, and who picked her and her date up in DC. If TWO adults "forgot" that you can't hail an Uber like you hail a cab, then it seems obvious that teens -- especially teens worried about being caught drinking by parents, worried about getting home, etc. -- would forget that too. Please look up that case, which occurred in DC within about the past two months so it's very recent. The driver somehow got the man out of the car and sped off with the woman alone and then raped her. The guy WAS a former Uber driver who had been axed by Uber but he'd kept the sticker on his car, and who knows how many other rides he picked up using it? It doesnt' really comfort me to know that Uber had ditched this driver, either. Go online and search for news stories from reputable papers and TV stations about Uber drivers and crimes. If you added them up across the country you'd see that it's a real problem. It's just not worth the risk.

I think Uber is teaching kids to be way too trusting that a company is looking after their best interests and their safety. It isn't.

Kids have no radar for this kind of risk, so it's your job as the parent to say no to girls taking Uber whenever, wherever. Work with your kid so she knows that if she's somewhere and there's partying or even if she herself gets drunk, you will get her any time of day or night and "I'm scared mom and dad will lecture me" is NOT a reason to put herself into a car with a total stranger.

I also agree with the PP who listed the differences between what Uber requires of drivers and what taxi firms require. Yes, DCUM, there have been taxi drivers who have driven off with women and raped them, but Uber's setup just makes these scenarios more likely. OP, search on DCUM too. Recent thread, from the fall, about a woman whose young adult daughter was treated VERY creepily by an Uber driver.

Uber lovers will come back with plenty of stories about how wonderful it is, but to me, it breaks the most basic rule of "don't get into a car with a stranger." Maybe if you could form a business relationship with ONE driver who would be your sole call, that would be different and I likely would use it then, but calling any random person who hasn't been vetted enough for me--no.[/quote]

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