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Of course she couldn't use the bus to get there either. #WTF \n\nMinibus taxis are used by millions of people every day, and they literally take their life into their hands getting on a taxi. Drivers are often reckless, vehicles are often unlicensed, and the cops are scared of the taxis. I have been involved in three collisions with minibus taxis, all of them caused by bad or reckless driving. The only safety you have as a passenger is that there are usually a dozen other people in the vehicle, so its safety by numbers: if something goes wrong, passengers will stick up for one another. But this doesn't help in the event of an accident or taxi war-related shootings. \n\nThe last time I took a metered taxi was 30 years ago, and it was really expensive then. Not much has changed, except that taxi drivers have become more aggressive in soliciting passengers at bus stations and airports. I avoid them like the plague. I'd rather hire a car. \n\n**So by comparison, *Uber* seems like a safer bet**. You get to rate the driver, and the driver rates you as a passenger. But that's where the wheels fall off. The *Uber* app can't (or won't) tell me whether I have used the driver before. The app tells me the vehicle make and model, and registration, but not the colour. I requested this a year ago and nothing has changed. It can't be that difficult to add, and would make spotting the *Uber* vehicle a bit easier. Many *Uber* drivers don't display their license in the window, or even have their phone on the dashboard where it can be seen, because the metered taxi drivers at airports and railway stations attack them if they think they are an *Uber* driver. So an *Uber* vehicle looks exactly like a private vehicle. And that's one of the problems with *Uber*. \n\nAnother problem with *Uber* is the lax security of the apps and the back end. *Uber* claims that drivers have to use \"two factor authentication\" to log in. But the second factor is the phone that belongs to the driver. So if the driver logs in using a user name and password, all the second factor can do is confirm that he is using his own phone. It can't confirm who the driver is, and there is no time-out or re-authentication during the day. So if I abduct a driver, force him to sign in and then take his car and his phone I can pick up fares indefinitely until he escapes. The implication on Twitter is that *Uber* is lax about kicking drivers off the system if they resign or are fired. I have no way of confirming this. \n\nWhat I can confirm is that *Uber* doesn't *actively monitor* any of the trips. The fact that you can see where the vehicle is, is only as a result of them recording the trip. If the trip takes longer than expected, no red flags go up at *Uber* HQ, and no intervention is made. Last year my wife took a trip from Melville to Cresta, which usually takes about 15-20 minutes and costs around R70-R80. The driver in this case was an idiot or wasn't properly trained. When he dropped her off he didn't end the trip, and kept the meter running for the next 3 days. Yes, three days later I cancelled the trip because I needed to catch a lift to the gym, and it told me that I was already \"on trip\". Then *Uber* duly billed me for the three days, and wondered why the R3,100 card charge was declined. The next time I tried to return home from gym they refused until I had paid the bill. That's where things got even more interesting. \n\n**There is no number you can call** to speak to a real human at *Uber*. You can only contact drivers. If you want to \"speak\" to someone at *Uber* you leave a message on the app (e.g. email) or try your luck with Twitter. Fortunately I managed to get a response on Twitter when I DM'd them. They don't always respond, or can take hours to respond, [in spite of *Uber* Cape Town GM Anthony le Roux's claim of half an hour](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuDVsU3v0-8). What would have happened if I had been stuck at gym and unable to get a response from *Uber*? Walk home? \n\nMy friend Sally Polack discovered that someone was using her credit card information to make trips. She doesn't have a smart phone, and all her enquiries with the bank and *Uber* via email were stonewalled. No one could tell her who was using her card, or whether they had done anything to prosecute the person concerned. I guess they just wrote it off as the cost of doing business. She got her money back from the bank's credit card division. Contrast that with their claim \"Our specially-trained incident response teams are available around the clock to handle any urgent concerns that arise.\" Nice if you can get in touch with this \"team\". \n\nThat brings us to the nub of the matter: what should you do if something bad happens to you while you are in the vehicle? Their answer: \"**In the event of an emergency, we ask riders to contact the national emergency line - 10111.**\" In other words, you're on your own, chump.\n![Image of Tweet](https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HoYG-LS2v5U/V8b0qTscmtI/AAAAAAAADtQ/_xR4Twt448gY7UVJl6up2ve2UQlgM8YmQCLcB/s400/UBER%2B10111.PNG)\n\nUntil *Uber* actually has a ride monitoring service, the best you can do is \"Share your ETA\" with a friend, and arrange with them ahead of time to call you while you are on your trip to make sure that everything is OK. Of course, I have no idea what to suggest if it isn't OK. If the driver's phone is faulty or he switches off his phone then you have no idea where the vehicle is. There's no vehicle tracking such as Tracker in *Uber* vehicles.\n![Route Map](https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6oZnPHn0-SE/V8b2stuVrHI/AAAAAAAADtc/txG682qjLnU6VoASVTh9BaYPIdF29ZT3QCLcB/s400/staticmap.png)\n\nHere's an example of a \"trip\" from home to gym where the driver's phone was faulty. The squiggle route shown here was actually recorded once he dropped me off. It's not even 1km long. \n\n![Help button](https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-StGv33yML9E/V8xrXCjiNpI/AAAAAAAADtw/VyAC-hOjV1cAlmlEzbWSrSckvfNm-6YEwCLcB/s320/help%2Bbutton.png)\n\n**So what should *Uber* do that they aren't doing?** The most obvious change would be to record both the driver's location and the passenger's location, and show both on the \"Share my ETA\" map and the billing record. 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