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Uber has introduced a new hour policy for driverpartners across SubSaharan Africa, including Nigeria to help enhance driver and passenger safety.
Drowsy driving is an issue for all who share the road and Uber is committed to doing its part to help prevent drowsy driving, starting from the June 18, 2018, the company said.
With this new feature, Uber will
Tbe taking another step forward by launching a feature across the country that prompts drivers to go offline for six straight hours after a total of 12 hours of driving time.
Drivers who do not take a long enough break will not be able to log into the app and take trips before that period expires, the company explained in a statement.
Uber already has features like an in-app notification that reminds drivers to take a break when feeling tired on the road and advises drivers with their community guidelines to ECNO has strategically positioned itself as one of the leading innovative smart phone makers in Africa with the consistent release of high-end product lines equipped with state of the art technologies which take breaks if they are feeling tired.
It said the new driving hour policy was an additional feature that would help improve safety on the roads for all.
The General Manager for Uber West Africa, Lola Kassim said, “We want to promote safe and responsible use of the Uber app and this feature has tremendous potential to protect not only Uber driver-partners, but also their passengers and, ultimately, all road users.
“Driver-partners in Nigeria are already driving responsibly but have captured a significant part of the African market.
From the L series smart phones which focused on long lasting battery life to the W series-notable for adding good value for money-to the PHANTOM series which boast of premium devices and the CAMON series, safety is one of our key pillars and we believe this new feature will be adding one more safety layer.”
Driver-partners will be able to track the time they spend on Uber trips and will be reminded when they’ve reached their maximum time on the Uber app.
It provides periodic notifications when drivers are approaching the 12-hour driving time limit and then will automatically go offline for six straight hours when their max has been reached, but drivers will be able to finish any trip they’re currently a product line of camera-centric smartphones, TECNO has no doubt proved to be a brand that provides unique, user-friendly as well as top of the line smartphones for users with great value.
Still in the business of reinforcing its continued contribution in the smart phone on. After the six hours, driving time resets and drivers can go online again to receive trip requests. This will be a phased roll out and not all driver-partners will see this right away.”
From this, drivers have expressed the need for information and education sessions which Uber has implemented, these include sessions which provides advice and examples such as how this will impact their businesses and how they can put together a responsible schedule for their small business. ecosystem, TECNO recently launched its new flagship smartphone duo in the CAMON series - CAMON X and X Pro. With these premium devices, TECNO’s mantra “Think globally, act locally’ has again been sustained as the CAMON X Pro flaunts a 24MP clear selfie camera, the first of its kind in Africa.