Uber announces safe travel plan, Avatar Street car collects security data

Uber, the US mobile service provider, has covered more than 250 cities around the world, and Uber has sparked numerous controversies, including the security of services, even in India, where female passengers have been raped by Uber drivers.

Over the past few months, Uber has been taking steps to improve the safety of travel. A few days ago, Uber announced a safe trip plan. Uber vehicles will become a "Google Street View Car", can be on the streets, the community of various security phenomena of data , such as street lamp coverage, such data will not only be used to upgrade Uber services, will also be submitted to local governments, improve the community's security infrastructure.

To quell the security-related attacks, Uber recently revamped its clients in the Indian market, adding a button to alarm, and female passengers could also inform their friends and family about their use of Uber services in order to get help in the event of an accident.

A few days ago, Uber announced will and a company named Safetipin Professional and mobile software cooperation, the two sides will jointly collect security data, submitted to local governments.

This cooperation lasted for five months starting February 25. Safetipin will send security inspectors and take Uber drivers ' vehicles to assess the security situation in various areas of New Delhi, India.

In addition to the artificial way, two companies will follow the Google Maps Street View car, that is, outside the Uber vehicles, the installation of smartphones, automatic filming on both sides of the street photos, focusing on lighting facilities, the visibility of the surrounding environment, the surrounding area of the male female population is balanced and so on.

The two companies will then submit the information to local governments, especially the urban planning section, to consider upgrading security infrastructure, such as new lighting fixtures in the blind area.

In addition, in Safetipin Mobile software, the security environment of the community will also become a security factor for users to consider when traveling and travelling.

The service was first introduced in New Delhi because the case of Uber drivers raping female passengers occurred in the city of New Delhi.

Uber and Safetipin will also enter more cities and countries in the future, such as Bogotá in South America, Columbia in Africa and Kenya.

In fact, Safetipin's services are similar to Google's crowdsourcing map Waze (traffic congestion information generated by motorists, generating traffic maps, assisting in the generation of the best routes), and using crowdsourcing mode to obtain local environmental security information.

However, the U.S. media believes that Safetipin and Uber cooperation, may also bring about another controversy, if some areas of low safety factors, will lead to racism and other aspects of the dispute.

In addition, the future of female passengers on the trip, whether they will refer to Safetipin Regional security assessment, or India's local government, whether it really will be based on Uber's recommendations, the increase of street lighting facilities, all this is still unknown.

In any case, this will be a practical move to Uber improve the security of its services, and Uber can announce to outsiders that he has been active in safeguarding passenger safety and even fighting crime.

Uber, a manager at the New Delhi market, said in an official post that through this Cross-border collaboration, Uber wanted local people to travel more safely.

It is worth mentioning that, by submitting data to the government, Uber also cleverly put part of the responsibility to protect the safety of citizens ' travel, "to the Indian local government, is a coup."

In the face of global security criticism, Uber announced last December that it would take a series of measures to improve the safety and security of its services.

Since last November, Uber has begun to reassess the safety background of the global driver team. In addition, Uber also said that in the future, biometric (identification) technology will be used to investigate the background of drivers.

Earlier, the Government of many cities in the United States criticized Uber, said it did not apply to join the driver background checks, Uber driver's safety can not reach the traditional taxi company level, the city government also accused Uber, in marketing materials misleading statement, lied to the driver has been investigated.