{"id":20992,"date":"2020-01-10T16:29:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T00:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=20992"},"modified":"2020-01-10T16:29:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T00:29:05","slug":"uber-launches-new-rider-security-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=20992","title":{"rendered":"Uber launches new rider security feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ride-hailing company Uber launched a new safety feature that uses randomized PIN numbers on Tuesday to help customers make sure they are getting into the right cars.<\/p>\n<p>Once a user books a ride, they are sent a four-digit PIN number. When the driver arrives, the user has the driver enter it into their Uber app. If the numbers match, confirming the pickup, the ride will begin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They can see the confirmation before getting into the vehicle and they don&#8217;t have to take the driver&#8217;s word for it,&#8221; Rebecca Payne, senior product manager at Uber,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/otqmscfgqttdpcptdkwqqdmmqfdntftvvlqgcrnrmrkrq_phchmmjqjbhmcdlvdclf.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/otqmscfgqttdpcptdkwqqdmmqfdntftvvlqgcrnrmrkrq_phchmmjqjbhmcdlvdclf.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1578785752978000&amp;usg=AFQjCNETI-An5eY1dUAefKFW1Hc3n5PXTg\">told the Chicago Tribune<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The big picture:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>Uber&#8217;s safety protocols have been under scrutiny after a number of cases where riders say they were assaulted or threatened. The company disclosed that more than 3,000 sexual assaults were reported by users in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2019, Samantha Josephson, 21, was killed in South Carolina after getting into a car with a man who impersonated an Uber driver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ride-hailing company Uber launched a new&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-science-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20993,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20992\/revisions\/20993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}