Uber has began piloting its teenagers-focused Uber for Teenagers service in India, TechCrunch has completely realized.
Uber for Teenagers is stay in Bengaluru, Delhi NCR and Mumbai, Uber confirmed to TechCrunch. The corporate mentioned it will increase the service within the coming weeks to 35 cities, which embody Ahmedabad, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Pune.
The service lets mother and father and guardians arrange accounts for his or her youngsters (between 13 and 17 of age) to allow them to request journeys instantly utilizing their very own gadgets. It additionally contains options like stay journey monitoring and opt-in audio recording.
Guardians may ebook rides for youngsters, and so they may set month-to-month journey limits to limit the variety of journeys. Uber requires guardians in India so as to add a credit score or debit card to their account to ask a youngster to their household profile. As soon as added, guardians and teenagers can ebook rides utilizing any fee technique, together with money.
Teenagers may deliver riders aged between 13-17 with them, per the small print obtainable on a help web page, however it isn’t clear how the consent mechanism for it will work.
Uber mentioned it would additionally carry out further background checks on drivers.
The transfer comes almost two years after the service was launched within the U.S. and Canada, because the ride-hailing app plans to develop in India and tackle home rivals Ola, Rapido, Namma Yatri and BluSmart.
Uber for Teenagers is at the moment stay in about 50 international locations, in response to the corporate’s This fall outcomes assertion final month. The corporate has additionally launched separate profiles for youngsters in some markets, letting them pay utilizing their very own fee strategies and money.
For the previous few months, Uber has added a number of options like concurrent rides, versatile pricing, and pay as you go merchandise pickups to cater to Indians’ altering transportation wants. The corporate additionally not too long ago ditched commissions on auto-rickshaw bookings, as an alternative instituting a day by day subscription cost.
