India : inDrive, a California-based super mobility app, has organised a Safety
Education event in Gurgaon. The SafeDrive
with inDrive campaign will educate drivers on how to ensure their
passengers’ safety and comfort.
This is in addition to inDrive’s
ongoing educational program for drivers, which reinforces their safety training
and spans road safety and the safety of women, so that every choice users make
with inDrive is safe and secure.
It also covers topics such as
the prohibition of discrimination, ways to promote passengers’ comfort, and how
to use all the safety features available should anyone need assistance during a
trip (for example, the Shield icon, which allows the user to contact emergency
services).
Pratip Mazumder, Country Manager, inDrive India explains: “inDrives’ safety
training is a 360 program which provides drivers
with timely communication tools and strategies to prevent cases of harassment
or violence - among other things.
For example, data from our
platform shows that women feel unsafe in a cab when the driver plays loud
music, is unkempt, or drives at a high speed; they are also uncomfortable when
the driver looks at them in the rearview mirror or pays them a compliment. So
our SafeDrive with inDrive campaign also addresses these issues with our driver
partners, to ensure that all our riders feel safe and comfortable.”
Pavit Nanda Anand, APAC Communications Lead, inDrive
adds, “Through our safety training
program, we aim to train all our driver partners. All those who complete the
training will receive a badge and a certificate that they can keep in their
vehicle.”
Alongside the SafeDrive
campaign, inDrive strives to remain up-to-date with innovative technology to
assist and protect all of its users. inDrive’s current safety features include:
• Driver verification - Document and photo-verification
is a must for all the drivers.
• Choose your passenger - With inDrive, drivers can
choose passengers based on their profiles, routes and price offers. (Passengers
can choose drivers using similar criteria)
• Safety button - During a trip, tapping the
Shield button in the inDrive app gives users access to tips for staying safe,
with a full screen detailing each tip.
• The shield icon on the main screen allows users
to quickly call the police or an ambulance in the event of an emergency.
inDrive has different
technologies, from sharing a trip in progress to direct support – a whole
security suite that has rolled over time in response to their users’ particular
needs. This security suite
is therefore specific to India, an important market to the company.
About inDrive
inDrive is a global mobility and urban services platform. The inDrive
app has been
downloaded over 200 million times, and was the second most downloaded
mobility app in
2022 and 2023. In addition to ride-hailing, inDrive provides an
expanding list of urban
services, including intercity transportation, freight delivery, task
assistance and courier
delivery. In 2023, inDrive launched New Ventures, a venture and M&A
arm.
inDrive operates in 749 cities in 46 countries. Driven by its mission of
challenging social
injustice, the company is committed to having a positive impact on the
lives of one billion
people by 2030. It pursues this goal both through its core business,
which supports local
communities via a fair pricing model; and through the work of inVision,
its non-profit arm.
inVision’s community empowerment programs help to advance education,
sports, arts
and sciences, gender equality and other vital initiatives.
For more information visit www.inDrive.com