Uber is letting parents check in on their teens through drivers’ selfie cameras

Uber is updating its teen relationship diagnostic to let parents to usage the selfie cameras connected Uber drivers' phones to cheque successful connected their teenage children during ridehail trips.

Since first launching teen accounts successful 2023, Uber has touted the myriad ways parents tin support tabs connected their children, from PIN verification to unrecorded GPS tracking. Now, parents tin besides presumption unrecorded video of the thrust portion it's successful advancement by viewing the provender from the driver's selfie camera. Uber said that aft investigating the caller diagnostic successful respective markets, it's acceptable to rotation retired nationwide implicit the adjacent fewer weeks.

Drivers who person opted successful to judge underage passengers volition present …

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