Uber Trip Tracker Lets You Track Your Family’s Car Rides in Real Time
If your family uses Uber to get around, you can now be calmer by tracking your family members’ rides in real time.
Uber is introducing a new safety feature that can notify you when a member of your “family profile” gets into a car, and then you can even follow their ride on a map in real time. Earlier this year, Uber introduced family profiles that allow users to use one payment method, so you can, for example, pay all of your daughter’s or son’s fares if you’re a parent. Of course, you can add anyone to your shared account, be it a friend, colleague, or loved one.
You can already share real-time maps of your trip if you like, but this new Trip Tracker feature is designed specifically for families. If I were the father of a teenager, I would find some relief in my parenting freak show on my smartphone.