How safe is Uber?

 Kenyans have in the recent past accepted and acknowledged the presence and existence of Uber, the advanced taxi service that took the country by storm. It became a household name with even the adamant customers like me who don’t take taxis as a proper means of transportation, for my own personal reasons. But, I have since changed my mind with the introduction of this new development in the transport industry.

With that said, it is good to look at Uber with a microscopic eye. You can call me pessimistic or just plain cautious, but I need to pose this question out there; “How safe is Uber?” yesterday one of the cabs in Kenya was reduced to ashes after the recent wars with the local cab association escalated, we all know that it was one of those ignorant and rigid taxi drivers still living in the stone age days.