Uber will soon be available to teens in Canada
The U.S. tech giant announced at its global product showcase Wednesday that it will begin allowing Canadians between the ages of 13 and 17 to make passenger accounts on the ride-hailing platform over the summer.The move to allow teens to use the service is a departure from its current policy that banned anyone under the age of 18 from holding an Uber account, or using an account to call an Uber for someone under the age of 18 who planned to ride unaccompanied by an adult.
“There’s numerous times when I’ve taken an Uber by myself up to the field to grab my 13-year-old son…because ’s driving the other two around to their activities,” van Hemmen said. But studies, news reports and online forums show teens have long been using Uber, even as many parents have expressed concern about the idea..A 2019 Ipsos poll in the U.S. of 877 parents with at least one child between 14 and 18 found one in eight parents reported their child between the ages of 14 and 17 had used Uber. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus two to four percentage points.
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