Lawmakers ask Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar to check driver fingerprints<article>
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Eight members of the U.S. Congress have asked Uber Technologies, Lyft and Sidecar Technologies to adopt fingerprint-based background checks of their drivers, describing the procedure as “more comprehensive and harder to fake.”</p><p>
The ride-hailing companies have come under increasing pressure to better vet their drivers, particularly in the wake of reports of sexual and other assaults by drivers in some cities.</p><p>
The members of Congress hold that the new requirement is nothing unusual as many
state-regulated taxi cab companies are already required to use fingerprint-based background checks. Fingerprint checks are also more efficient as they are linked to countrywide databases of the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, they said.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2894772/uber-lyft-sidecar-asked-by-us-lawmakers-to-use-fingerprint-checks-of-drivers.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Lawmakers ask Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar to check driver fingerprints
