Keeping our Roads Safe

This week, Uber is joining the global safety community to participate in the UN’s Global Road Safety Week and raise awareness about the dangers of unsafe speeding.

Nearly 1.3 million lives are lost on the world’s roads each year, including a staggering 12, 000 in Egypt alone. Unsafe speeding, distraction while driving, and lack of road safety measures are the main contributing factors in many fatal crashes, in both emerging and established economies.

Realizing the magnitude of the problem in Egypt, Uber pledged to take positive action for safer Egyptian roads! We are proud to be launching our first Safety Driving Competition, powered by AXA, to reward the safest driver on the Uber platform.

Uber’s technology is continuously evolving and introducing new safety products starting with telematics last year – technology sensors that now monitor safety measures taken while on the road- and then Real-time ID check which launched in Egypt in March 2017.

All partner-drivers in Cairo are invited to participate in a one-month safety driving contest to win a grand prize, in addition to weekly prizes, all powered by AXA.

Partner-drivers’ driving style will be monitored using Uber’s telematics technology.

The winners will be required to exhibit safe driving behavior like:

In addition, we’d like to help raise awareness about speed and share some information from the World Health Organization:  

It’s important to always travel at a safe speed. We thank our partners in Cairo and Alexandria and all who drive with Uber for doing their part to make the roads safe. Details about the focus of this year’s road safety week are available here. And additional information about how Uber is working to use in-app features to help make roads safer is available here.