What makes you think the driver would pick up minors? Does Canadian Uber have different rules than USA?

Or OP or one of the other adults could not be a lazy pos for a little bit and pick them up?
Hope you at least ran it by the friend's parents first.

Yes I texted the guy to let him know

Interesting - I don't remember Uber ever asking for an age when I signed them up, and I must admit, I didn't look up the T&C. All my daughter's friends (the 16 y o) Uber. My son's friends, its only a handful.

Then if all parties were fine with it I see nothing wrong.

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100% fine, not even threadworthy

I don't even understand the question

lol.
"can strangers that can be identified be trusted?" or "is it my fault my nephew and his friend were found in the back of a van with severed heads?"?

At my kids HS, you'll see 5-6 different Uber/Lyft drivers picking kids up every afternoon.

You'll also see UberEats at lunch time.

There's a business opportunity here: Get big enough trampolines and they can fly back.

This.

I get amazed at how restricted kids and teenagers are and how they aren't allowed to develop and become independent. I understand Grando being more cautious as they aren't his kids but generally speaking I don't think it's great to wrap kids up in cotton wool. How are they meant to grow up and become functioning adults if they're never allowed to work things out for themselves as they grow up? We're going to end up with a society of anxiety ridden weirdos, albeit "safe" weirdos.

Sexxy Rexxy doin werk itt.

As long as you aren't in the bay area I'm sure most uber/lyft drivers are probably fine.

I dunno - I'm usually pretty non-caring about stuff like this, but getting some rando to pick up 2 kids that were kinda in my care seemed sketchy. Especially cause we were drinking.

Regardless, everything went okay - contrary to what people thought we should do we didn't talk to the other parents beforehand about the whole Uber thing. Additionally, my sister (the mom) was also not there to ask about it.

The whole crew was my mom, her sister and me. My mom was completely against the whole idea, and that of course led to me and my aunt trolling her until they got back: "uh oh the Uber driver looks really sketchy" "whoa he's taking THAT way?!" "Jesus Christ why would they stop there?!!" etc. Plus the sketchy news stuff already talked about.

I mean I did way stupider stuff as a kid - my mom told a related hitchhiking story when she was that age and it was hilarious, but it's a different world now. I don't think I'd do it again tbh.

I've had arguments with my kid's other Mom about letting them Uber. She's perfectly happy with them catching the BART (the Bay Area subway, which has had three people killed on it over the last couple of weeks) but thinks Uber drivers are undoubtedly going to kidnap our kids. My feeling is that Uber is by far the safer option.

We're both single parents, and neither of us can leave work early to pick the kids up. At some point, you just have to be able to trust them to navigate the real world safely.

I don't think the world has changed that much from when we were kids TBH - it's our perception of it that has changed.

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Possibly reasonable if you started drinking before knowing about the plan for the kids, irresponsible if you knew ahead of time about the plan and couldn't hold off drinking for a few hours.

Having to pick them up a half hour away shouldn't be a big deal, especially if you have multiple drivers and no one has to do both drop off and pick up. Are you trying to accommodate having a drinking problem?

A key to the story is that the kids are 14, id have a different answer if they were 9-10 or so.

I don't relate to any "it's a different world now" arguments. At least in the USA, going by crime rates it's a lot safer than it was a generation ago (granted, not sure if the same is true in Canada).

Personally I think people consider it less safe because we're so inundated with news due to the internet. It's made people paranoid.

Me saying "it's a different world now" was regarding perception rather than actual safety. It's obviously way safer nowadays, but lol soccer moms

Maybe the world is only a safer place now because of all the helicopter parenting so the creeps and weirdoes don't have as much access...

But seriously, give these kids like $10 and tell them to take the bus there and back. If a couple 14yo kids can't figure out a bus schedule, life is going to get a lot harder for them.

This.

http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/3...e-going-to-die

I would argue that an Uber is up to 10x more safe than bus or series of bus rides required to travel your 30 mins.

I would agree that it's probably safer. I don't know that taking the bus is inheirently unsafe either though. I think teaching a couple of 14yos to be somewhat independent and allowing them to figure out how to take the bus to somewhere they want to go would be a lot more rewarding.

When I was that age, I was taking multiple busses across the city to do whatever I wanted. No you don't even have to look up bus schedules and maps, al of that information is available through google maps.

This thread reminds me of that Black Mirror episode Arkangel.