The city “is safer today than it was when I used to drive a taxi,” he said, “but I believe that it is our responsibility to continue improving safety.
#Car panic button drivers#
Rodriguez, who was a livery driver during that period, said drivers and passengers should both be able to call for help. The effort came after two livery drivers were killed in the Bronx last August, recalling the early 1990s, when in some years dozens of livery drivers were killed. The taxi commission now requires most taxis and for-hire vehicles to have stickers in back seats reminding passengers that assaulting a driver is punishable by up to 25 years in prison. Some of the applications for Panic Button: Public Safety Car Park Area Basement Cashier Room OKU Toilet (Handicap) VIP Room Safe Deposit Room. as long as your key fob is within range of your car, all you have to do is hit the panic button (which is often red or orange and labeled with a horn) one more time to turn it off. Matthew Wing, a spokesman for Uber, said in a statement that the S O S button was “just one example of an innovative safety feature that we will roll out in additional cities and countries in the coming months.”Īnother sponsor of the New York legislation, Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, a Manhattan Democrat and chairman of the Transportation Committee, said he would push for similar legislation to add a separate panic button for drivers in the front of taxis. the panic button lets you set off your car's alarm if you feel unsafe. Attacks by drivers have been reported in other cities, including Chicago, where Uber officials told The Chicago Sun-Times in February that the company was planning to add a panic button to its app there.
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