Uber is Testing a New Feature Called ”SPOT”
Private car service Uber started testing an innovation that users will be aware of the car which comes to transport you easily. Uber began testing this innovation which is called SPOT in Seattle US, it has placed a special LED light to the interior of vehicles windshield.
Private car service Uber started testing an innovation that users will be aware of the car which comes to transport you easily.
Uber began testing this innovation which is called SPOT in Seattle US, it has placed a special LED light to the interior of vehicles windshield.The purpose of this innovation is that when a user call for a Uber car, It is going confusion when more than one vehicle.And they think it is own car.Now users suppose their uber car with the plate number or the Uber logo tags, When they call for a car.
Uber allows you to specify the color of the LED light on Uber vehicle’s windscreen with this SPOT application.Uber users who want to use the SPOT feature could select yellow, orange, pink, purple, blue or green to recognize their own cars easily on Uber app.
Uber aims to ensure their drivers and users can more easily find each other over the SPOT feature.SPOT will be used in next weeks but when other users who live in other cities or countries can use this feature is unknown.As you remember, Uber drivers had been exposed to violence by taxi drivers in France.This feature brings the risk of becoming a more visible target for the Uber drivers.
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Owen Castellanos
Owen Castellanos is the Hardware & Gaming Reporter at TrendinTech, where he tests graphics cards, processors, consoles and peripherals and follows the games industry, from the major publishers to independent studios. He previously wrote reviews and benchmarks for Tom's Hardware and contributed features to PC Gamer, covering everything from laptop testing to the economics of game development. Owen holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and attends CES in Las Vegas, Computex in Taipei and the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco each year to meet chipmakers and developers. He writes for readers who want to know whether a product is worth the money, and he is not shy about saying when it is not.
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