How safe is driving for Uber????
All depends on what you’re packing.
What do you mean by safe? The passenger has the following before he gets into my car, on his phone:
1. My photo
2. My phone number
3. Photo of my car
4. My license plate number
5. GPS track of my car before pickup and during ride as part of his reciept
Driver background checks are performed on a regular basis. Car inspections are performed on a regular basis.
Compare that to a taxi ride and driver.
I’m a 34 year old female who just started driving for Lyft. I’ve always felt completely safe. Most of the people I give rides to are young, millennial, college aged kids. It’s a lot of fun and hardly feels like a “job”. Most of my passengers are very nice and some can be pretty darn entertaining. At times I almost feel like I’m doing a community service. I once took an elderly lady to the bus station so that she could catch a greyhound to go visit her sister in Chicago (the ride was requested by her daughter). Another time I took two teenagers to their homecoming dance (they were way too cool for mom to take them!), and my most interesting passenger was a guy that was so drunk he could not tell me where he lived. All he could blurt out was “downtown”. I eventually asked for his driver license so that I could get his address off of it.
I have a full time-40 hour a week job, so I mostly do this in the evenings and on the weekends for extra cash.