Improving Rider Safety Using QR Code & Fingerprint Biometrics
Raghu Nandan Avula, Cliff Changchun Zou · 2019
Transport Network companies (TNCs) have changed the way we travel in the last five years where a rider can book a ride using her smartphone. However, TNC doesn't provide any robust mechanism to validate the driver or the rider before the ride. This has led to many violent incidents ranging from assault, kidnap of the riders by fake ride-hailing drivers. The most recent one that shook the entire nation is the murder of a USC student when the rider got into the wrong car thinking that it is her Uber [1]. To address this problem, we have proposed a solution that adds an extra security layer in authenticating both rider and driver before initiating a ride. In this solution, both rider and driver will authenticate themselves using technologies like QR Code and fingerprint biometrics supported by modern smartphones before they take the ride.