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  • Uber Finds Unusual Items Left Behind By Indian Riders: Check The List |

    New Delhi: It’s very common for passengers to leave behind their belongings in ride-hailing services often in the rush of getting to their destinations. According to the ridesharing company Uber various items such as coin collection, prasad, a Ukulele instrument, and hair trimmer were left behind by the Indian passengers over the frame of last one year.

    Adding more to it, the ride hailing company also mentioned that passengers left behind important documents such as passports, banks and business papers in their cab. The Head of Central Operations, Nitish Bhushan clarified that passengers whose important items have been left behind are given the option to retrieve it through the Uber app. (Also Read: itel Super Guru 4G Keypad Phone Launched In India With UPI Payments And YouTube At Rs 1,799; Check Specs)

    “With Uber, you have the option to attempt retrieving the lost item by simply following a few steps in the app,” said Nitish Bhushan. He further added “We understand the trust riders put in us each time they take an Uber ride, and we felt the time was opportune to provide a quick refresher course on how to retrieve lost items,” (Also Read: Iran-Israel War: Billionaire Elon Musk Calls For Peace In Cryptic Post On

    Most Forgetful Cities In Country

    Delhi has clinched the title of the most forgetful city in India for the second time in a row, with Mumbai holding onto its second position. Bengaluru has regained its third position pushing Hyderabad to fourth due to increased caution among its residents about their belongings. Pune now occupies the fifth spot among the most forgetful cities in the country.

    Commonly Forgotten Items

    The items which topped the list of most commonly forgotten items were phones, which was followed by laptop bags, clothing, keys, headphones and other different items. Furthermore, the company discovered that people were most prone to forgetting their belongings in an Uber on Saturdays. Previous festive season during diwali the highest number of items were forgotten. (With IANS Inputs)

  • Bengaluru Commuter Faces 50-minute Wait Time For Uber, Says 'City Is Messed up'

    New Delhi: Online cab services have emerged as true lifesavers in today's fast-paced world. With just a few taps on a smartphone, individuals can effortlessly summon a ride to their doorstep, eliminating the hassle of traditional taxi-hailing methods. However, in a recent incident a Bengaluru commuter encountered significant challenges while trying to book a cab online.

    Rajesh Sawhney, the commuter, posted a screenshot on X platform displaying a waiting time of 50 minutes for an Uber cab. In his post, he expressed his dissatisfaction with the lengthy wait stating “I haven't come across any city more messed up than Bangalore. Also perhaps the most corrupt city in India; from auto drivers to Uber drivers, from politicians to babus. How would things change?”

    I haven't seen come across any city more messed up than Bangalore.

    Also perhaps the most corrupt city in India; from auto drivers to Uber drivers, from politicians to babus.

    How would things change? pic.twitter.com/86QYr9bFT6 — Rajesh Sawhney (@rajeshsawhney) March 13, 2024

    The post garnered netizens attention, here are some of the reactions:

    One of the user wrote “Today itself Uber driver from Bangalore Airport refused to switch on the AC saying Uber Go doesn't come with AC. When I insisted he switched on and at drop was demanding additional AC charges. Never faced this in any other city!”

    “That is problem with the App allocating the driver, stop blaming the city or the residents???” wrote the other one.

    The third user commented, “How dare you call Bangalore the most messed and corrupt place in India. Delhi and UP people are deeply offended.”

    “It's about taxi, Uber! Hello why blame the city? If it's so messed up, you should relocate sir, thank you” said the fourth user.

    The fifth user wrote “Second you on corruption part. Rest can be managed. Traffic and infrastructure both worse but other metros are not significantly better either. Weather compensates for a lot of it.”

  • Delhi Police registers FIR after lady journalist claims harassment by means of Uber motive force 

    Via PTI

    NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police has registered a case after a lady journalist alleged that she used to be sexually burdened by means of an Uber auto-rickshaw motive force all through a trip in southeast Delhi, officers stated on Friday.

    Consistent with police, the journalist, a resident of Bharat Nagar, filed a grievance on the New Buddies Colony police station Thursday night time.

    She alleged indecent behaviour in addition to lascivious staring by means of the Uber motive force whilst she used to be travelling from New Buddies Colony to Malviya Nagar on Wednesday round 4.40 pm, police stated.

    A case beneath phase 509 (phrase, gesture or act meant to insult the modesty of a lady) of the IPC has been registered and investigation initiated, Deputy Commissioner of Police (southeast) Rajesh Deo stated.

    The car-rickshaw used to be discovered registered within the identify of 1 Mohammad Yunus Khan, a resident of Nehru Camp in Govindpuri, who’s being interrogated in an effort to nab the wrongdoer motive force, police stated.

    Taking to Twitter, the lady narrated her ordeal.

    “I took an auto from my house to a pal’s position. After some time, I spotted that the motive force used to be taking a look at me during the facet mirrors of the car, exactly at my breasts. I shifted a bit of against proper and wasn’t visual within the left facet reflect,” she stated in a tweet.

    “He then began taking a look into the appropriate facet of the reflect. I then shifted to the intense left and wasn’t visual in any of the mirrors. He then began taking a look again over and over to look me. I first attempted the usage of the protection function of @uber, however to no avail,” she stated in every other tweet.

    She stated she didn’t cancel the trip because it used to be a brief one. The Delhi Fee for Ladies stated it has gained a grievance and has issued a understand to the town police and the cab aggregator company.

    The ladies’s panel has additionally sought an action-taken document by means of March 6.

    In its understand to Uber, the panel has sought main points of steps taken to verify such incidents don’t occur and whether or not the accused auto motive force were verified by means of police.

    NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police has registered a case after a lady journalist alleged that she used to be sexually burdened by means of an Uber auto-rickshaw motive force all through a trip in southeast Delhi, officers stated on Friday.

    Consistent with police, the journalist, a resident of Bharat Nagar, filed a grievance on the New Buddies Colony police station Thursday night time.

    She alleged indecent behaviour in addition to lascivious staring by means of the Uber motive force whilst she used to be travelling from New Buddies Colony to Malviya Nagar on Wednesday round 4.40 pm, police stated.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    A case beneath phase 509 (phrase, gesture or act meant to insult the modesty of a lady) of the IPC has been registered and investigation initiated, Deputy Commissioner of Police (southeast) Rajesh Deo stated.

    The car-rickshaw used to be discovered registered within the identify of 1 Mohammad Yunus Khan, a resident of Nehru Camp in Govindpuri, who’s being interrogated in an effort to nab the wrongdoer motive force, police stated.

    Taking to Twitter, the lady narrated her ordeal.

    “I took an auto from my house to a pal’s position. After some time, I spotted that the motive force used to be taking a look at me during the facet mirrors of the car, exactly at my breasts. I shifted a bit of against proper and wasn’t visual within the left facet reflect,” she stated in a tweet.

    “He then began taking a look into the appropriate facet of the reflect. I then shifted to the intense left and wasn’t visual in any of the mirrors. He then began taking a look again over and over to look me. I first attempted the usage of the protection function of @uber, however to no avail,” she stated in every other tweet.

    She stated she didn’t cancel the trip because it used to be a brief one. The Delhi Fee for Ladies stated it has gained a grievance and has issued a understand to the town police and the cab aggregator company.

    The ladies’s panel has additionally sought an action-taken document by means of March 6.

    In its understand to Uber, the panel has sought main points of steps taken to verify such incidents don’t occur and whether or not the accused auto motive force were verified by means of police.

  • Uber Sued Through Over 500 Ladies Alleging Sexual Attack Through Drivers

    Greater than 500 ladies have filed a lawsuit in opposition to ride-hailing corporate Uber, alleging that they had been sexual assaulted through its drivers whilst the corporate not noted passenger protection in choose of benefit and company expansion.

    The lawsuit filed Wednesday in San Francisco County Awesome Court docket claims the ladies “had been abducted, sexually assaulted, sexually battered, raped, falsely imprisoned, stalked, burdened, and/or in a different way attacked” whilst being transported through an Uber motive force.

    The transportation corporate has recognized concerning the incidents since no less than 2014 nevertheless it has did not take good enough protection movements, the criticism alleges. The latest alleged incident of sexual attack cited within the criticism passed off early final month. Not one of the alleged sufferers are named.

    Uber's headquarters is seen in San Francisco. The company is accused in a lawsuit filed Wednesday of knowing about more than 500 incidents of sexual assault involving passengers and drivers but failing to take proper action.
    Uber’s headquarters is observed in San Francisco. The corporate is accused in a lawsuit filed Wednesday of understanding about greater than 500 incidents of sexual attack involving passengers and drivers however failing to take correct motion.

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    “There’s so a lot more that Uber will also be doing to give protection to riders: including cameras to discourage attacks, acting extra tough background tests on drivers, making a caution machine when drivers don’t keep on a trail to a vacation spot,” lawyer Adam Slater, whose legislation company is representing the alleged sufferers, stated in a observation. “However the corporate refuses to, and that’s why my company has 550 purchasers with claims in opposition to Uber and we’re investigating no less than 150 extra.”

    Uber, responding to the 49-page lawsuit, stated it takes each file of sexual attack significantly.

    “Whilst we will’t touch upon pending litigation, we will be able to proceed to stay protection on the center of our paintings,” the corporate stated in a observation to HuffPost on Thursday.

    The lawsuit accuses the San Francisco-based corporate of being “sluggish and insufficient” in its dealing with of the incidents and in part blames “toxic-male tradition at Uber” for fueling the sexual assaults, pronouncing the corporate puts “earnings and expansion over protection above all else.”

    It additional accuses the corporate of committing unethical practices, together with improperly pocketing a $1 “Secure Rides Price” that it imposed on riders in 2014. As a substitute of the use of this cash to reinforce passenger protection, it raked in masses of tens of millions of greenbacks in earnings, as used to be first reported through The New York Instances in 2019, resulting in court cases.

    The company has faced a long list of complaints of misconduct since its founding in 2009.
    The corporate has confronted a protracted listing of court cases of misconduct since its founding in 2009.

    Uber final month printed in a U.S. Protection Document that the corporate gained 3,824 experiences of sexual attack and misconduct involving passengers in 2019 and 2020. It stated the speed of sexual attack reported at the Uber app had reduced through 38% since its final 2019 protection file that lined the years 2017 and 2018. The corporate additionally famous that rides reduced up to 80% across the get started of the coronavirus pandemic, even though it’s unclear what affect this will likely have had on that price of reporting.

    The corporate stated it has carried out a number of protection measures for passengers in recent times, together with direct get admission to to 911 via its app, a GPS tracker that notifies the corporate if a travel is going surprisingly off-course or if a conceivable crash has passed off, and the power for passengers to proportion real-time information about their experience and arrival with others.

    All possible drivers also are required to go through a background test, even though the lawsuit filed Wednesday requests that drivers go through a extra intensive biometric background test, with drivers’ fingerprints taken. It argues that this is able to right kind “false negatives” that get up in atypical name-based background tests.

    Uber, based in 2009, has lengthy confronted court cases of misconduct amongst its company group of workers and drivers.

    Previous this week, The Mother or father printed inside Uber memos and communications it received; they documented legislation breaking, world lobbying, and the exploitation of motive force protection between 2013 and 2017.

    In 2017, corporate co-founder Travis Kalanick resigned following rising ethics court cases and court cases, together with allegations that he not noted sexual harassment court cases. He resigned from Uber’s board in 2019 after promoting off his greater than $2.5 billion value of stocks within the corporate.

    “We’ve now not and won’t make excuses for previous behaviour this is obviously now not consistent with our provide values,” the corporate stated in a observation to The Mother or father in accordance with the inner paperwork being printed. “As a substitute, we ask the general public to pass judgement on us through what we’ve achieved over the past 5 years and what we will be able to do within the years yet to come.”