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In 2021, Uber reported $17.5 billion in net income in 2021.
The platform has around 93 million users.
The apps It is available in 900 cities around the world.
A TikTok user recounted a supposedly bad experience he had when he had to take an elderly woman to a nursing home during his workday as an Uber driver.
Mobility platforms have gained fame throughout the world, and today it is a fundamental tool in people’s lives. Data of Intertrafficindicate that the use of urban mobility apps, such as Uber, Cabify or DiDi, had a growth of five percent, where 41 percent of Internet users in Mexico use apps of mobility.
In the world, the most popular is Uber, which according to the company’s own data, it generated around 17.5 billion dollars in net income in 2021. The report explains that the mobile transport network company has around 93 million monthly users worldwide and is available in 69 countries and more than 900 cities.
He Uber success is largely due to its practicality. With a few taps on the phone screen, a car can be ordered to pick you up anywhere, anytime. The app also shows an estimate of the cost of the trip before confirming the reservation, allowing users to plan their budget in advance.
The TikTok user @cristian_michell narrated how through the Uber platform he was hired to take an elderly person to a nursing home.
The young man commented that he was in a cake shop where he placed an order, but while he was waiting for it, he forgot to disconnect from the application and shortly after received an alert requesting a ride, which the driver could not reject because Uber penalizes cancellationso he ordered his food to go and went to the agreed place.
Once he arrived at the destination, he reported that there was an old lady sitting in front of the house with about five black bags without knowing what the trip was for her until the user who requested the service told her that he was not going out and that the person he had to take was the lady he saw, who was wearing an apron and with whom he Apparently she was drying her tears.
The young man indicated that he got out of the car and greeted the grandmother, indicating that he would be the one to transport her to the place where she had to go, immediately afterward she began to cry more.
The woman between 70 or 80 years old told the young man “I don’t want to leave, I just peed. I have not done anything wrong, tell my daughter that I did nothing wrong, that I wash my clothes, that I didn’t just pee myself”; When she got up to get into the car, the driver noticed that she was wet and put a gym towel on her that she brought in the car. When she started the car, the lady lowered the window and “blessed her.”
The Uber driver explained that the old lady told him that his son-in-law got angry because he urinated on his clotheswho yelled at her and told her that she could no longer stand her and that she no longer wanted her at home, while her daughter only watched the situation without defending her.
She also recalled that the older adult had gotten up since five in the morning to prepare breakfast and lunch for her grandchildren, but since she suffers from incontinence, she could not avoid urinating, that was the reason why her son-in-law coordinated and fixed her transfer to a nursing home.
It should be noted that the old lady added that her daughter changed since she sold all her properties and distributed the money among all her children.
Upon arriving at the nursing home, the woman told the Uber driver that she was fasting and that not even his family had remembered that that day was his birthday.