Users can now share their transit progress with their friends through Uber's app, so they'll know exactly when to expect you. September 16, 2013 12:50 PM PDT (Credit: Uber) Uber has added the ability to share your location with friends when you take a ride from the on-demand car service, so they can track your estimated time of arrival, the company said on Monday. Now users can select "Share my ETA" in the menu next to the driver's name, enter a destination and then choose which contacts they want to share their ETA with. Each of the contacts selected will receive a text with the ETA and a live map tracking the user's location. Uber is promoting this feature as a way to keep people you have appointments with updated on your transit situation, so if you're tardy so you don't have to send messages and or call to let folks know. It seems to be a coveted feature by busy people on the go, if the rising number of smart calendars and digital assistant apps boasting the feature are a sign. Donna Tam Donna Tam is a staff writer for CNET News and a native of San Francisco. She enjoys feasting, merrymaking, checking her Gmail, and reading on her Kindle. Before landing at CNET, she wrote for daily newspapers, including the Oakland Tribune, The Spokesman-Review, and the Eureka Times-Standard.
Users can now share their transit progress with their friends through Uber's app, so they'll know exactly when to expect you.
(Credit: Uber)
Uber has added the ability to share your location with friends when you take a ride from the on-demand car service, so they can track your estimated time of arrival, the company said on Monday.
Now users can select "Share my ETA" in the menu next to the driver's name, enter a destination and then choose which contacts they want to share their ETA with.
Each of the contacts selected will receive a text with the ETA and a live map tracking the user's location. Uber is promoting this feature as a way to keep people you have appointments with updated on your transit situation, so if you're tardy so you don't have to send messages and or call to let folks know.
It seems to be a coveted feature by busy people on the go, if the rising number of smart calendars and digital assistant apps boasting the feature are a sign.
Donna Tam is a staff writer for CNET News and a native of San Francisco. She enjoys feasting, merrymaking, checking her Gmail, and reading on her Kindle. Before landing at CNET, she wrote for daily newspapers, including the Oakland Tribune, The Spokesman-Review, and the Eureka Times-Standard.
