Become a driver

Shifting expectations
Finding better ways for cities to move, work, and thrive

Stronger Economies
Opportunity for all

A city with Uber welcomes new, flexible earning opportunities for all its residents. More than half of drivers in the US choose to work 10 hours a week or fewer [1]. So parents, students, retirees, or anyone looking for extra income can work whenever they like.

88%

88% of drivers say they drive with Uber to have more flexibility in their schedule and balance work with their life and family [2]

Work where it’s needed

Uber helps revitalize local economies. In London, nearly a third of driver-partners live in areas where unemployment rates are highest [3].

A map depicting unemployment in London
Rate of unemployment
Uber partners' listed addresses
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Improved Access
Transportation that covers every mile

Not everyone lives close to a bus or train stop. And there are some parts of cities where taxis don’t go. Uber provides safe, affordable rides around the clock—regardless of where you live, where you’re going, or what you look like.

52%

52% of trips in Chicago begin or end in areas where taxis typically don’t go [4]

Bringing transit to your door

Uber complements existing transit systems. This map shows completed Uber trips in Portland, Oregon that started or ended within a quarter mile of a train station [5].

•Train station
Train route
Uber trips

Safer Roads
Helping to curb drunk driving

Our rush hour starts just after last call at bars. Since uberX arrived in California in July 2012, there has been an estimated 6.5% decrease in drunk-driving crashes per month [6]. And DUI arrests have dropped 10% in Seattle [7]. When you can get a ride at the tap of a button, it’s easy to leave the keys at home and make the responsible decision at the end of the night.

The right choice at the right time
Alcohol-related crash fatalities in Texas [8]
Requested Uber rides
8am
Noon
4pm
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4am
“Thank you to the Uber driver-partners who are ensuring that riders have access to a reliable ride and for helping keep our streets safe.”
Colleen Sheehey-ChurchNational President, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)

uberPOOL
Sharing the way to sustainable cities

By matching people headed in the same direction, uberPOOL turns what would normally be multiple rides into one. In Los Angeles and Chengdu, two of our busiest cities, more than a quarter of trips are uberPOOL trips [9].

Making a world of difference

In just one month, uberPOOL riders in San Francisco saved 674,000 miles—or about 27 trips around the world. Fewer miles driven means less fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions [10].

[1] Uber data from November 2015, cited in this blogpost.
[2] Benenson Strategy Group survey of US Uber driver-partners, December 2015. Featured in this blogpost. 88% of partners started driving with Uber because it fit their life well, not because it was their only option. In a January 2015 survey by BSG, 85% of partners said a major reason why they drive with Uber was “to have more flexibility in my schedule and balance work with my life and family.”
[3] 29% of Uber driver-partners in London are from areas with unemployment rates over 10%. Source: Uber data from August 2015, and the UK Office of National Statistics. Parliamentary constituency areas are colored based on the numbers of drivers who list an address there. Deactivated partners are not included.
[4] 52% of Uber pickups and dropoffs occur in neighborhoods that the city of Chicago defines as traditionally underserved by taxi, based on Uber data from November 2014. Featured in the Uber Chicago case study.
[5] Source: Uber data from August 2015. Blue lines represent Uber trips that started or ended within a quarter mile of a light rail (MAX) or commuter rail (WES) stop. Only completed trips 5 miles or less are shown. Trip endpoints have been randomly jittered to protect user privacy.
[6] Uber and MADD study and blogpost, January 2015. We used a difference-in-differences statistical technique to measure whether Uber’s entry into California cities reduced alcohol-related car crashes, compared to California cities we did not enter into. We found that monthly alcohol-related crashes decreased by 6.5% (or 60 fewer crashes per month) among drivers under 30, following the launch of uberX in California in July 2012. As of October 2015, that means 2,200 crashes had been prevented. This effect has been replicated by researchers at Temple University, who showed that the effect builds over time as the network matures.
[7] Uber blogpost, May 2014. We used a difference-in-differences statistical technique to measure whether Uber’s entry into the Seattle market reduced DUI arrests, compared to San Francisco DUI arrests.
[8] This chart shows the volume of requested Uber rides by hour on the weekends (5pm Friday to 5pm Sunday). Data is from Austin, Texas, for January 1, 2015 through August 1, 2015, and is overlaid on top of 2013 FARS alcohol-related car crash fatality data in Texas. Featured in the Uber Austin case study.
[9] Uber data from October 2015.
[10] Source: Uber data from February 20, 2015 through March 20, 2015, featured in this blogpost. We define miles saved as the distance traveled when two Uber riders’ trips overlapped in an uberPOOL ride – that is, the extra distance that would have been driven, if each rider had taken their own solo trip.