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Has anyone tried SafeTrek? I saw it being advertised on Facebook. You use it while taking a ride on an Uber and it can call the authorities while sending your exact location. You hold your finger and if you let go, it calls automatically, I think?
Has anyone tried SafeTrek? Safe measures for Females. They say it can call police and authorities automatically.
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I don't mean to judge, but I doubt this passenger in the video can ever NOT use her phone for more than 12 minutes.
She looks like the type who needs this app to report people making sexist remarks.
You are being slightly offensive but you actually have a point. You cannot use your phone while you are doing this. What else are you supposed to do while on a ride? I bet you 99.99% of people are using their phones while on an Uber ride. The rest is sleeping.
I think you guys are missing the point. You use this when there is a creeper driver or whenever you feel unsafe.. You don't have to use it all the time.
Good point.
Wait, do you really hold your finger on it the WHOLE time? So it's like a grenade.
I seriously doubt I can hold my finger on it the whoe ride for several minutes. I hit a bump and it'd call the police? How easy is it to cancel a false alarm?
Grenade? Analogy is a bit off. The better is those terrorist suicide bombers switches where if they let go, it explodes.
It took me a bit to find it on Google. It's apparently called the "Dead Man's Switch." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man%27s_switch
Seen these in movies. I can't think of anything specific. Line of Fire?
Isn't this pointless as a deterrent if the driver doesn't know how it works? and that you are using it?
Right, so you have to awkwardly announce it when you start using it.
"I am so glad I have this amazing SAFETY app, that allows me to hold my finger when I am safe and if I were to be attacked by anyone, I would lift my finger and it woudl call the police to my exact location based off of my phone's GPS coordinates!!"
No, I have not tried it yet. but how the hell do I try this? Let go and see if the police arrives? So scard to even turn it on...
It's pretty cool that it has a chat feature. I wonder whom you are chatting with.
It costs $29.99 a year or $2.99 a month. It's for the dispatchers. It connects you first to a central dispatch and monitoring area, and then they dispatch the police for you.
https://www.safetrekapp.com/pricing?gclid=Cj0KCQjw28_XBRDhARIsAEk21FjSYEb64wSz0tC0L3nBamJS-FAaPnkTS0SPsJkHRdCysxT13uB-rPMaAvdyEALw_wcB
Drivers can do this too? We drive in danger all the time.
That's the stupidest idea i've heard. Drivers can't have his hand on the switch! Plus the phone is using the uber app, right?
What's with the silent summon feature? Don't you want the offenders to know that the police is on the way?
I was checking out their website, and it has the current stats:
42,820 ACTIVE BUTTON USES 1,390 EMERGENCY RESPONSES
does this mean that once every 30 times people use this there is an emergency? Gosh, that's high. a bit too high.
and 1290 of those were false alarm for the girls' finger slipping from the phone.
Yeah, every time the car hits a bump, I feel like the police would be dispatched!!
Also, they say they send the GPS location but what if the car is moving?
Here's the link Jeto download it.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/safetrek-personal-safety/id716262008?mt=8
I feel so bad for this driver in the video. The girl saying he's creepy and her pointing at his head.