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04-30-2014, 08:37 AM
Faulty Background Checks May Put UberX Passengers at Risk, Report Says
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Passengers who catch rides with UberX may **t be in the safest of hands, according to a recent investigation conducted by NBC Chicago.
The news outlet found that UberX drivers with criminal pasts may have slipped through the ****** of background checks (http://www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/Ride-Service-May-Pose-Risk-to-Passengers-256639641.html) that the company says it runs on driver applicants.
According to its website, all Uber drivers are put through county, multi-state and federal background checks (http://blog.uber.com/driverscreening). That includes anyone who wants to drive for UberX, the cheapest service offered by the taxi-hailing app, in which drivers use their own vehicles instead of cabs or sleek black cars to pick up passengers. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/29/uberx-passengers-risk/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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Passengers who catch rides with UberX may **t be in the safest of hands, according to a recent investigation conducted by NBC Chicago.
The news outlet found that UberX drivers with criminal pasts may have slipped through the ****** of background checks (http://www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/Ride-Service-May-Pose-Risk-to-Passengers-256639641.html) that the company says it runs on driver applicants.
According to its website, all Uber drivers are put through county, multi-state and federal background checks (http://blog.uber.com/driverscreening). That includes anyone who wants to drive for UberX, the cheapest service offered by the taxi-hailing app, in which drivers use their own vehicles instead of cabs or sleek black cars to pick up passengers. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/29/uberx-passengers-risk/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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