Everyone can start hiring a personal "hikyaku" with hundreds of yen "Uber Rush" in full swing

ByGustave Deghilage

Provide a service that makes it easy to call a hire with a smartphoneUberHowever, the new delivery service "Uber RushWe started. If you say a home delivery service that you can use from a smartphone, you choose a product you want from the application and get the product you bought at the store ... In general, the Uber Rush service is more widely available I will.

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According to what was announced on 14th October 2015, Uber Rush started the trial introduction in 2014. First of all, it will start full-scale service in three cities of Chicago, San Francisco, New York. Deploy in the United States to similar courier servicePostmatesAlthough it is a service that focuses on "consumers" that Postmates selects shops and products from the application and delivers them, Uber Rush undertakes contracts with "Flying groundSo the service is available not only for consumers, but also for retail stores such as "You are in a hurry because home delivery can not be made in time!"

Uber Rush service contents can be confirmed from the following movie.

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A place like a restaurant.


While tasteful and cooking is taking place ... ...


Employees open Uber Rush website from PC.


Click "New Delivery" button.


After specifying the section to be delivered, the price of "4.5 dollars (about 540 yen)" was displayed.


In addition, a boutique that looked like a high class was also displayed.


Next time I received an order from the phone ......


It seems to deliver clothes.


This same as before, you can easily use the service from "New Delivery" button.


It's a flower shop ......


You will see "New order accepted" on the tablet.


This also uses Uber Rush.


Create a bouquet as ordered ... ...


Uber Rush staff arrived ... ...


I will hand you a flower bouquet.


You can easily check the state of home delivery from the application or website.


It is obvious from the map which one is running.


If the store person does not use it, but the consumer side uses the service, the person who ordered the product can receive the message "Uber Rush will come soon".


From the application you can see how many more minutes Uber Rush is coming.


When the car arrives ......


You can receive goods safely.


In addition, there are no registration fee etc, especially when a company or shop uses a service, and the cost is only 5 to 7 dollars (about 600 to 830 yen) per delivery cost. When companies and shops use Uber Rush, the cost is on sale side, so consumers seem to be unaware that the selling side is using Uber Rush. The means of home delivery is to combine a bicycle and a car.

Also, Uber has a problem with securityIt has been pointed out before, Former security officer on Twitter in August 2015Charlie MillerI hire him. Mr. Miller hacked the Jeep formerlyDemonstration of stopping air conditioning inside the car and turning off the engine by remote controlIt is the person who went.

In addition, Uber ties up with the laboratory of the University of Arizona for automatic driving car research, and performs child protectionMissing / Expressed Children CenterWe are developing a system in partnership with "Alerts echo under specific people when passing near children abducted." On October 13, 2015Personal information of hundreds of drivers leakedAlthough it is reported that it is reported that these movements seem to see how Uber will develop in the future.