Make a dinner reservation. Deposit a check. Track your daily calories. Learn what song is playing on the radio. All of these things can be done using various applications available on your mobile phone. It seems only natural that ordering a taxi should be just as quick and convenient. But do customers sacrifice safety for convenience when using Uber?
Uber, which was launched in 2009, provides an easy-to-use system to order a taxi or luxury vehicle in your area. The application currently operates in cities within 46 countries around the world. 129 of those cities are in North America.1 Between June 2013 and May 2014, 82,000 people used Uber..2 As of September 2014, Uber was available to 43 percent of the American population, or 137,451,768 individuals, with an average pick-up time of less than 10 minutes.
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