Uber offers special trips for minors between the ages of 13 and 17 who travel alone

The American multinational transport company Uber has started on Monday to offer your “teen account“, which allows minors between the ages of 13 and 17 to travel alone in various cities in the United States. This type of account can be created in a family profile by adding a teen.

The younger you can request your own trips and parents or guardians will receive a notification each time it is done and will be able to follow up from the starting point to the destination.

Uber explains on its website that the drivers in charge of making these trips will only be those who have “experience and high qualifications“and that all platform workers”must undergo verification comprehensive background”.

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“If the teen user chooses to set it up, the audio recording function will be activated automatically for each trip. They will also have access to the functions of safety during the tripsuch as calling 911 (the police), contacting the support team or reporting a problem through the application, “says the company.

At the moment, this function is available for 14 cities, among others: Atlanta, Georgia; Dallas and Houston, Texas; Kansas City, Missouri; and New York City and surrounding areas. But the company wants to roll out teen accounts “soon in more locations“.