‘Your safety, our priority !’ – says the company’s Country Manager.
Yango, an international ride-hailing service, launched today in Cameroon a new safety technology in the service — driving style monitoring. The algorithm aggregates feedback from Yango users about rides in real time with a progressive impact scale. If users inform about the dangerous driving style of a particular driver regularly, this is considered as a violation of the service standards and the driver receives a warning notification in a driver app about it. If the situation doesn’t change after several notifications, the algorithm restricts the driver’s access to Yango. Thus, the technology helps to warn drivers who cooperate with the service from dangerous maneuvers and possible accidents.
‘Your safety, our priority! We constantly invest in our own safety technologies to contribute to the safety of the cities. Today we are pleased to roll out this feature in both Yaounde and Doula. We are committed to bring more of our safety technologies that have already proved their efficiency on other markets to Cameroon very soon’ – Didier Theze, Country Manager for Yango in Cameroon.
The Yango app already has a number of functions that increase the level of safety of all rides. For example the safety tab in the app allows users to share their itinerary with trusted contacts so that they follow the route, report any personal belongings left in a vehicle, contact the customer service if the driver has violated the traffic rules, etc. Furthermore, with each order, users can see the license plate number and the name of a partner driver who is coming to the ride.
About Yango
Yango is an international online service for ordering rides. It already operates in more than 20 countries across Europe, Central Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Unlike other ride-hailing services, Yango app uses its own mapping, routing, and navigation as well as smart order distribution.