Anonymous wrote:No my kid does not Uber and neither do most of her friends. I don’t get u we even for adults — you are getting in the car with an inverted stranger! There are so many instances of Uber drivers acting inappropriately.

Cabs are much better even if you have to wait a bit since cab drivers are vetted.

I don't get how cabs are safer. With Uber you have a record of the transaction, including a picture of the driver and make, model and plate number of the car. If your kid hails a cab, who knows what cab it was?

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Anonymous wrote:Thank god I grew up in the 80's. My wonderful parents would tell us to be in by dark. No cell phones, no Uber, no social media.

Teenagers have it rough these days.

Op here. This is how I grew up. Most of my friends were raped in the age 15-17.

So instead of having her do safe things with her friends you want her childhood to be more like yours ... one where most your friends were raped.

You obviously experienced trauma as a child. Would you like the name of a good family therapist that specializes in trauma?

Anonymous wrote:All the teens I know use Uber but not alone.

It's a good skill and once my kids were a little older and faced with dealing with their driver drinking at a party they just get an Uber.

My son went to a concert and missed the last metro out of the city and took an Uber.

My 17 yo had an official visit to a college and he flew to the city and ubered to the interview/meeting.

I think you are really missing a chance to tech you child a skill.

Wow, don't parents drive their kids or let them use their cars? If you child missed the metro, you go get them. If your child has an college is it, you take them. The lack of parenting makes me wonder why people even have kids?

Teaching your kid to Uber is not a skill. You go on the app and request a car. Teaching your child to be responsible and call you and you get them is a better skill as its having a relationship they know they can count on you. Teaching your child public transportation is a skill (and there is an app for that too).

Anonymous wrote:Hell no. We always teach kids to never go with strangers. I have felt weird using an Uber. Plus you need to be 18.
~laid back mom

I’m another laid back mom and I know this issue is coming for me. I have a 13-year-old so it hasn’t come up yet. I was taking the Metrobus every day when I was 11 in the mid-80s but I don’t use Uber myself.

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Anonymous wrote:I recently saw a news story where an uber driver raped a woman. Scary.

How does your daughter know for sure that the car she's getting into is an Uber car? Do they have signs or anything indicating what they are?

I'm afraid that if some creep sees a couple of young girls standing on a corner waiting for a ride.....(shudder)

They have a sign (although that's not hard to fake).

Uber also sends them and you, if you're account, a photo of the driver, picture of his/her car, and a license plate number. So, it's pretty easy to be sure you have the right car. Uber will also know the name of the person whose account it is, so they can ask.

What happens if the Uber driver pulls up in a different car and tells the girls that the other driver was in an accident so he was sent to pick them up instead?

What happens if the Uber driver pulls up in the Batmobile and says he's Batman? Jesus people get a grip.

You don't think that a creep is ever going to pull up to a small group of teenage girls, lie to them and ask them to get in his car? Nah, creeps would never, ever do something like that. That never effin happens.

My daughter is a street savvy girl who takes two seconds to compare the license plate number and car description with the one provided in the app. That is how you spot your Uber in a busy place, and how you make sure it's the correct car. It's not difficult.

Good for your daughter. You think that all kids do that, every time? Nah, most are just lucky.

And if a kid is sharing the order app responsibility with her friends, is it safe to assume that her friends are being as careful as she is when it's her turn to order uber?

Why can't the kid whose friend ordered the Uber say to their friend "What's the license plate #?"

No one is called larla.

People are so naive.

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Anonymous wrote:I recently saw a news story where an uber driver raped a woman. Scary.

How does your daughter know for sure that the car she's getting into is an Uber car? Do they have signs or anything indicating what they are?

I'm afraid that if some creep sees a couple of young girls standing on a corner waiting for a ride.....(shudder)

They have a sign (although that's not hard to fake).

Uber also sends them and you, if you're account, a photo of the driver, picture of his/her car, and a license plate number. So, it's pretty easy to be sure you have the right car. Uber will also know the name of the person whose account it is, so they can ask.

What happens if the Uber driver pulls up in a different car and tells the girls that the other driver was in an accident so he was sent to pick them up instead?

What happens if the Uber driver pulls up in the Batmobile and says he's Batman? Jesus people get a grip.

You don't think that a creep is ever going to pull up to a small group of teenage girls, lie to them and ask them to get in his car? Nah, creeps would never, ever do something like that. That never effin happens.

Of course creeps would. Which is why any teen with half a brain (or whose parents had the common sense to teach them a few tips) checks the license plate on the car to see that it matches that of the uber driver dispatched for the ride, and makes sure the driver matches the picture on the app. Perhaps I'm more laid back than most here, but my kids take uber fairly regularly and have since about 8th grade. No significant mishaps yet.

No my kid does not Uber and neither do most of her friends. I don’t get u we even for adults — you are getting in the car with an inverted stranger! There are so many instances of Uber drivers acting inappropriately.

Cabs are much better even if you have to wait a bit since cab drivers are vetted.

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Anonymous wrote:I recently saw a news story where an uber driver raped a woman. Scary.

How does your daughter know for sure that the car she's getting into is an Uber car? Do they have signs or anything indicating what they are?

I'm afraid that if some creep sees a couple of young girls standing on a corner waiting for a ride.....(shudder)

They have a sign (although that's not hard to fake).

Uber also sends them and you, if you're account, a photo of the driver, picture of his/her car, and a license plate number. So, it's pretty easy to be sure you have the right car. Uber will also know the name of the person whose account it is, so they can ask.

What happens if the Uber driver pulls up in a different car and tells the girls that the other driver was in an accident so he was sent to pick them up instead?

What happens if the Uber driver pulls up in the Batmobile and says he's Batman? Jesus people get a grip.

You don't think that a creep is ever going to pull up to a small group of teenage girls, lie to them and ask them to get in his car? Nah, creeps would never, ever do something like that. That never effin happens.

My daughter is a street savvy girl who takes two seconds to compare the license plate number and car description with the one provided in the app. That is how you spot your Uber in a busy place, and how you make sure it's the correct car. It's not difficult.

Good for your daughter. You think that all kids do that, every time? Nah, most are just lucky.

And if a kid is sharing the order app responsibility with her friends, is it safe to assume that her friends are being as careful as she is when it's her turn to order uber?

Anonymous wrote:I frequently send an uber to pick up DD when she needs to get to an appointment from school and I can't drive her and public transit options aren't timely. I order the uber, look at the driver info, text her the car and license plate, then I call the driver and tell him that he is picking up my kid and then I make sure that she calls me when she is in the car and on her way. DD is 18. I have been doing this for last 18 months. I would not send a daughter younger than 15.

This is how I would handle it with my HS kid. You're a smart mom.

I frequently send an uber to pick up DD when she needs to get to an appointment from school and I can't drive her and public transit options aren't timely. I order the uber, look at the driver info, text her the car and license plate, then I call the driver and tell him that he is picking up my kid and then I make sure that she calls me when she is in the car and on her way. DD is 18. I have been doing this for last 18 months. I would not send a daughter younger than 15.

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Anonymous wrote:I recently saw a news story where an uber driver raped a woman. Scary.

How does your daughter know for sure that the car she's getting into is an Uber car? Do they have signs or anything indicating what they are?

I'm afraid that if some creep sees a couple of young girls standing on a corner waiting for a ride.....(shudder)

They have a sign (although that's not hard to fake).

Uber also sends them and you, if you're account, a photo of the driver, picture of his/her car, and a license plate number. So, it's pretty easy to be sure you have the right car. Uber will also know the name of the person whose account it is, so they can ask.

What happens if the Uber driver pulls up in a different car and tells the girls that the other driver was in an accident so he was sent to pick them up instead?

What happens if the Uber driver pulls up in the Batmobile and says he's Batman? Jesus people get a grip.

You don't think that a creep is ever going to pull up to a small group of teenage girls, lie to them and ask them to get in his car? Nah, creeps would never, ever do something like that. That never effin happens.

My daughter is a street savvy girl who takes two seconds to compare the license plate number and car description with the one provided in the app. That is how you spot your Uber in a busy place, and how you make sure it's the correct car. It's not difficult.

Good for your daughter. You think that all kids do that, every time? Nah, most are just lucky.

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Anonymous wrote:I recently saw a news story where an uber driver raped a woman. Scary.

How does your daughter know for sure that the car she's getting into is an Uber car? Do they have signs or anything indicating what they are?

I'm afraid that if some creep sees a couple of young girls standing on a corner waiting for a ride.....(shudder)

They have a sign (although that's not hard to fake).

Uber also sends them and you, if you're account, a photo of the driver, picture of his/her car, and a license plate number. So, it's pretty easy to be sure you have the right car. Uber will also know the name of the person whose account it is, so they can ask.

What happens if the Uber driver pulls up in a different car and tells the girls that the other driver was in an accident so he was sent to pick them up instead?

What happens if the Uber driver pulls up in the Batmobile and says he's Batman? Jesus people get a grip.

You don't think that a creep is ever going to pull up to a small group of teenage girls, lie to them and ask them to get in his car? Nah, creeps would never, ever do something like that. That never effin happens.

My daughter is a street savvy girl who takes two seconds to compare the license plate number and car description with the one provided in the app. That is how you spot your Uber in a busy place, and how you make sure it's the correct car. It's not difficult.

At least back in the day we knew to run like hell, scratch, kick. Whatever you do - do not get into his car.

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Anonymous wrote:I recently saw a news story where an uber driver raped a woman. Scary.

How does your daughter know for sure that the car she's getting into is an Uber car? Do they have signs or anything indicating what they are?

I'm afraid that if some creep sees a couple of young girls standing on a corner waiting for a ride.....(shudder)

They have a sign (although that's not hard to fake).

Uber also sends them and you, if you're account, a photo of the driver, picture of his/her car, and a license plate number. So, it's pretty easy to be sure you have the right car. Uber will also know the name of the person whose account it is, so they can ask.

What happens if the Uber driver pulls up in a different car and tells the girls that the other driver was in an accident so he was sent to pick them up instead?

What happens if the Uber driver pulls up in the Batmobile and says he's Batman? Jesus people get a grip.

You don't think that a creep is ever going to pull up to a small group of teenage girls, lie to them and ask them to get in his car? Nah, creeps would never, ever do something like that. That never effin happens.