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It’s already possible to share your Uber journey when you choose to with friends and family, but now the ride sharing app is upping the stakes by trying to offer more “peace of mind”.
The way the app is doing that is by allowing users on shared accounts – or Family Profiles as they’re known on Uber – to track one another automatically each time they take a trip.
Once a family member jumps in an Uber, the account admin will receive a notification alerting them to the fact that someone is currently on a ride. The real time map will show users their route and arrival time.
Uber calls the technology Trip Tracker, and says it goes one step further than the existing system, which currently only allows ride tracking when the person on the move chooses to share their route with a specific contact they choose.
The new feature has been rolled out worldwide according to Uber, and any current user of the app can sign up to a Family Profile in order to take advantage of the new tracking set-up.
