Confirming a December BuzzFeed News report, Uber is rolling out a new video game called UberDrive to give people a peek into a day in the life of an Uber driver in the hope of recruiting new drivers and testing existing drivers’ city knowledge.
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Uber wants to take over the world, that much is clear. But the company knows that to do it, its services have to be efficient and reliable in every single one of its existing markets. That's hard to do when the people responsible for delivering that service — drivers — are spread around the world and have vastly different backgrounds and experience levels. So Uber is now tasked with giving all of its almost 170,000 active drivers nationwide the tools to ensure that every ride meets passengers' standards.
Cue UberDrive. It started as a passion project for Mike Truong, a senior product manager at Uber who previously worked as a producer on Need For Speed at Electronic Arts. But it has now come to life as a driver knowledge — and recruiting — tool. It's a fairly basic game that integrates Google Maps' API and Uber's existing routing system to give players a peek into what it's like to be an Uber driver — at least to the extent that any game can do that.
Users can tap intersections to choose the routes their car will go (initially it's an UberX until a user racks up enough points to unlock UberBlack and then UberSUV). They then accept ride requests and choose the best possible route to get to the passengers' destination. Along the route or at destinations that are also points of interest, the app will prompt the user with trivia or fun facts. The game mirrors the regular Uber app fairly closely and includes features like surge pricing and the pinging sound drivers hear when a ride request comes in.
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