{"id":1031,"date":"2020-04-10T11:24:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T11:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo6.aiwalls.com\/ipapps\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2020-04-10T11:24:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T11:24:08","slug":"uber-is-reportedly-testing-out-an-audio-recording-feature-that-lets-you-report-your-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/?p=1031","title":{"rendered":"Uber is reportedly testing out an audio recording feature that lets you report your driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pic1.tadke.com\/imgs\/tech2lims\/0409\/40gbaxeoqy4.jpg\" alt=\"uber\"><figcaption class=\"text-darken text-low-up text-truncate-js mt-3\">\n                Credit: CC0 Public Domain<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><p>Uber may be testing out a feature that lets you voice record your driver and report it to the company if you ever start to feel unsafe.<\/p>\n<p>        <!-- \/4988204\/TechX_Story_InText_Box --><\/p>\n<p>Developer Jane Manchun Wong tweeted Monday that Uber is testing a tool called &#8220;Record Audio&#8221; for you to use if you&#8217;re &#8220;uncomfortable with the ride.&#8221; Wong, who reverse engineers apps, was one of the first to discover that Instagram was testing out hiding likes months back.<\/p>\n<p>Wong tweeted that she didn&#8217;t test out Uber&#8217;s beta-test feature because she was in an &#8220;actual Uber ride&#8221; when she discovered it.<\/p>\n<p>According to Wong&#8217;s screenshot of the Uber app, the feature appears to be a part of the company&#8217;s &#8220;Safety Toolkit&#8221; which includes access to sharing your trip status with family and friends, reporting issues and contacting police.<\/p>\n<p>Uber wasn&#8217;t immediately available for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in September, Uber rolled out RideCheck, a system designed to flag unusual events like long stops or car crashes to keep passengers and Uber drivers safe\u2014an action taken after several high-profile assault scandals.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last two years, the company has bolstered efforts to make riders feel safer after dealing with a high-profile murder case and sexual assault complaints against drivers.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in 2019, a South Carolina college student was killed after getting into a car she mistook for an Uber. In 2018, Denver police said an Uber driver fatally shot a passenger.<\/p>\n<p>Also in 2018, female riders filed a proposed class-action suit against Uber, accusing the ride-sharing firm of poor driver vetting that led to thousands of passengers enduring sexual harassment and rape.<\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit: CC0 Public Domain Uber may be testing out a feature that lets you voice record your driver and report it to the company if<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[28,687,252,689,688],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-how-tos","tag-audio","tag-feature","tag-recording","tag-reportedly","tag-uber"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}