Ridejoy Adds ID Verification to Make Social Ridesharing Community Safer

Thanks to the Internet, riding to work with strangers just got a little safer. A partnership between the social ride-sharing marketplace Ridejoy and Jumio, Inc. will allow carpoolers on long-distance trips to verify the identities of the other passengers. If an online ID check can make carpooling with strangers less of a risk, maybe someday it'll be safe to pick up hitchhikers.

Thanks to the Internet, riding to work with strangers just got a little safer. A partnership between the social ride-sharing marketplace Ridejoy and Jumio, Inc. will allow carpoolers on long-distance trips to verify the identities of the other passengers.

Jumio uses computer vision technology to read information from images taken with a webcam.  The ID verification tool can check driver’s licenses in all 50 states and passports in the U.S. and Canada., weeding out the fake IDs to ensure that everyone in the car is who they say they are. 

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