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Service Technician Condemns Uber’s Safety Standards

March 26th, 2016  |  News

Uber is popular with customers for its convenience, but is catching flak for deficiencies in its vehicle safety inspection.

According to a Driving.ca article written by a licensed automotive techniciam, Uber’s vehicle inspection standards are significantly less stringent than the standards used by provincial governments for its inspections and that’s not cool.

The inspection standard Uber uses may seem reasonable at first, but when compared with a provincial inspection checklist the shortcomings become all too apparent. UberX vehicles can be approved as “safe” with broken reverse lights and/or brake lights, tire defects, a leaking brake system, and even more, all of which would make your car unsafe to drive.

While most people tend to maintain their cars and avoid such serious safety risks, the fact that UberX inspections are so lax shows just how little they are committed to safety. This, in addition to ignoring insurance laws and skirting regulations paint the company in a much darker light than what they would have you believe.

While Uber drivers may be nice people (mostly) the company itself needs a lot of work to provide a high quality of service to consumers that is actually as safe and secure as most people blindly believe it to be.