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Uber Beacon - A light to find your Uber easily

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Uber Beacon is a new light-up windshield icon that glows in a color chosen by riders in the Uber app. Beacon’s color-matching technology makes it easier—and faster—for riders to find their drivers, especially at night and in crowded areas.

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Josef Richter
I think Uber needs a moral beacon more than anything.
Brock Azure
Uber Instagramming Lyft.
Romain Baron
AppstoreKit
@brockgazure and we know the winner...
Virrindra V Argekar
Hmm quite interesting! Its quite a hassle to keep looking for the number plate and esp in the crowded places. Wonder the fun when multiple Uber guys might use the same beacon colors. BTW, the link is broken [ beacon.uber.com or even https://www.uber.com/en-IN/beacon/ ]
Rishabh Ravindra
@virrindra1 this link should work as it is for the US region: https://www.uber.com/en-US/beacon/
Ganesh Babu
With so many products fighting for space on the windshield and the dashboard of a car, soon we will need cable management for wires inside cars. Excellent idea. Execution could have been better.
Naomi Assaraf 🔥
Hmm 🤔This is just to show the rider where their Uber is. *Idea*: since riders always flash their phones at who they think is their driver anyways, why not have the rider’s app light up in the corresponding color so that the driver can also identify their rider?
Chris Raethke
Notiv
@nassaraf I saved a bright pink/purple single color image to my iphone that I would hold up when I knew my Lyft driver was approaching. So many asked me if it was a feature of the rider app.
Ravi Garg
@nassaraf This is typical end user thought. Good one.
REV1S
Without looking at the pictures I thought this was going to be an augmented reality feature in finding your uber. Somewhat disappointed.
Ravi Garg
@nyjetlife Yes, with in the app they could have very easily used Google street view and show the actual car popping up with make, color and distance.
Jerry Becker
playing catch-up @Lyft
Aditya Devaguptapu
Lyft have had these lamps for quite sometime now- these lamps would even flash a greeting message at the passenger once they got inside the car. I remember being blown away by the idea because it was a great design that actually tackled a major problem that commuters face (Unlike a lot of flashy products that are mostly about the looks and not the problem solving) That said, I also like the form factor of the sensors that Uber are using. Look forward to seeing them on the roads
bennybrau
A 2.5 min. unboxing video for a light that you stick on your windshield. Brilliant.
Mehdi Izemmour
Brilliant! Love it.
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