Choosing Life Or Death With Rideshares.....

Ride shares has made its waves, giving riders a thrill for convenience and affordability. Wondering if yellow cab still exist. While New York crowds can make getting through traffic almost impossible, you can always find a cab standing at the corner with your thumb out. Now those days are almost gone being replaced with Uber and Lyft.

Uber and Lyft claim to do background checks on applicants but how deep is that check. Reports shows that Uber and Lyft doesn't use fingerprint or law enforcement to perform background checks. Nor do they have a live interview process for prospecting applicants. This allows drivers with criminal backgrounds to fly under the radar.

Companies that do background checks on applicants seem to give customers a sense of comfort and trust with the services they recieve. How can these ride share services offer a more secure and safe ride for customers? Maybe adding a live monitoring system in the vehicles would be a start. Crimes that involved rideshares isn't something new. Crimes range from rape to murder. How safe are you? Will it be safer walking home?

Next: Uber B ackground Check

More than 130 cases involved rape charges from Uber and Lyft drivers. Hundreds includes imposters. The most recent imposters shocked the community. How can these rideshares make their vehicles more noticeable to riders?

Seattle man imposed as an Uber driver and raped a Seattle woman.

Columbia Police Department

21 year old Samantha Josephson was murdered in Columbia, South Carolina March 29, 2019 at around 3 a.m after getting into a car she thought was her Lyft ride. Josephson was a student at South Carolina University. Suspect Nathaniel David Rowland was arrested on murder charges.

After Josephson murder, South Carolina passed a bill requiring rideshare to display lumininated signs on the vehicle making it more noticeable to riders.