Inspiration
While visiting new cities, everyone uses Uber. However, it can be scary waiting for your Uber at an unknown location, especially in a sketchy city. Instead of standing in one spot, most likely looking down at your phone, why not be on the move to a safer location?
What it does
Using 10 years of Philly's crime data, UberSafe sets your pick-up location to the closest area with low crime rates.
How we built it
Using the City of Philadelphia's CSV file of crime inputs, we extracted the latitude and longitude of crime spots and added them to the file. Using this information and a mock Uber app created using the Uber API, we wanted to make sure a pick-up location isn't near the hub of one of these spots and if it is, change the location to a walkable distance.
Challenges we ran into
No one had any experience with iOS or Android development so while we attempted to use both, decided in the end to just make a mock web app.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Use of APIs and working with real data.
What's next for UberSafe
We also know that the worst part of Ubering is the pickup. With more data on how busy a street is, if it's a one-way, wide enough for someone to pull over, we would like to optimize the pick-up location to not only be safe, but less rushed.
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