This service allows young people aged 13 to 17 to order their own rides without being accompanied (illustration photo). oksanamoroz82 – ENVATO ELEMENTS
Since October 30, 2024, Uber has launched Uber for Teens in France. This recent product was designed to allow young people aged 13 to 17 to travel without being accompanied by their parents. Real-time tracking allows the latter to be informed in real time of their offspring's journey. The service can be particularly useful on December 31.
On the eve of Halloween 2024, Uber launched an app for teenagers in 13 French cities: Amiens, Angers, Bordeaux, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier, Nantes, Nice, Paris and the Paris region, Perpignan, Strasbourg and Toulouse.
This service, simply called Uber for teens, allows young people aged 13 to 17 to order their own rides without being accompanied.
Parents can supervise trips thanks to “personalized safety features”, explains the site from Uber.
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Real-time tracking
Real-time tracking is available to parents. They also receive the driver's name, vehicle information, and requested destination, so they know exactly where their teen is going and who is behind the wheel.
Before a teen gets in the car, they must give the driver a unique PIN code. “Drivers cannot start the ride until they enter the correct code into their app, providing an added layer of protection to ensure the teen gets into the right car with the right driver,”, the company notes on its website.
Sensors and GPS data can detect if the ride deviates or stops unexpectedly.
Driver reachable
Parents can contact the driver at any time during the ride. Only experienced drivers with the best ratings can receive ride requests from teens' accounts.
On this New Year's Eve, this service will surely be useful to families, including those in Montpellier and Perpignan for the Occitanie region.