Uber app updates with new safety features like 'trusted contacts,' 911 button As part of the new safety rollout, a 911 button will be available to all riders. In the coming months, the driver app ...

What should be inside the Safety Toolkit?” While many of the features developed on the heels of that meeting may seem like small changes—such as making driver ... New York University. In Uber ...

A slew of new features are coming to the Uber driver app starting Thursday for the most experienced drivers as well as novices who just signed up for their first ride. For those newbie drivers ...

New Delhi: Uber India has introduced a range of new safety features designed to improve ... Currently, women make up just 2 per cent of Uber's driver base and the company hopes this initiative ...

After two years of launching features ... your driver is available and whether there will be a co-rider. Uber Health is expanding its sights this summer by launching Uber Caregiver — a new ...

In its emailed statement, Uber said it has "led the industry on safety from day one - backed by technology, transparency, and real accountability." Uber points to features like the audio and video ...

The victim's family is seeking justice and calls for rideshare companies to implement more safety features to protect drivers ...

Uber says it may shut down operations in Colorado if the state passes new rideshare ... by a rideshare driver. Uber claims it already conducts background checks and offers a safety button, as ...

Uber is on Wednesday launching its own version of a bus system along busy routes, calling it its most affordable ride option yet. The rideshare company has introduced Route Share, a new service ...

Rideshare giant Uber has dusted off a familiar threat in its bid to defeat an effort in the Colorado legislature to tighten oversight of ride-hailing drivers and increase riders’ safety.

Uber claimed it would have “no choice” but to cease operations in Colorado should the state pass a new bill to bolster passenger safety. Under the bill, HB25-1291, rideshare companies ...

Uber said it will pull out of Colorado if a bill aimed at improving rideshare safety becomes law. House Bill 25-1291, spearheaded by state Rep. Jenny Willford, D-Northglenn, looks to require ...