We sent four top Uber executives - Dara Khosrowshahi, Thomas Ranese, Andrew Macdonald and Jill Hazelbaker (largely because they had Twitter accounts) - an earlier version of our child safety lock proposal late last October. It apparently didn't make much of an impression on them, because I was never contacted, which I suppose is unsurprising for busy executives of a worldwide corporation.

I've showed this tamper-proof decal sheet (click on the following image to return to this page) to roughly 1,000 Austin-area Uber riders over the past few months in an effort to prove how much easier it would be to quickly and accurately identify the status of the child safety locks on virtually every Uber vehicle if the company adopted our UBER LIGHTBOX system.

Based on the discussions I had with these riders - primarily single female riders at night and couples with wives who feel unsafe riding in Ubers alone - I refined the design of the tamper-proof decals to distinguish the "directional" decals (showing child locks that lock up, down, left or right) from "non-directional" decals (with vertical or slightly off-vertical red bars showing the unlocked position, and horizontal red bars indicating the locked position of the rotating-slot child safety locks).

Although Uber has struggled to achieve sustained profitably, their lack of interest in the UBER LIGHTBOX system really did surprise me, because as the following image of our bullet-pointed proposal shows (again, click on the image to return here), drivers would finance much of the cost, since the LIGHTBOX itself would have a Big Red Panic Button so that drivers could instantly summon the police if they are assaulted using the "trackable-if-activated" 911 emergency feature already built into the Uber driver app.

Here's a supplemental page that describes some of the additional features and limitations of our UBER LIGHTBOX system, and here's a copy of the cover letter I recently sent to Uber's CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, and four of the company's top executives, including a first mailing to Tony West, Uber's Chief Legal Officer. (Once again, clicking on the resulting images will return you to this page.)

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