Bolt launches SOS button

[Jamie McKane]

Bolt launches SOS button

Bolt has launched an emergency response button which its passengers can use if they find themselves in trouble.

This SOS button is found within the Bolt app's Safety Toolkit, and allows passengers to connect with 24/7 private armed response teams, private emergency medical services, and roadside assistance.

 

[Ninja'd]

Bolt launches SOS button

Bolt has launched an emergency response button which its passengers can use if they find themselves in trouble.

This SOS button is found within the Bolt app's Safety Toolkit, and allows passengers to connect with 24/7 private armed response teams, private emergency medical services, and roadside assistance.

Could've used this 2 weeks back when we went past a nasty accident on the black road and the driver got a puncture while swerving to avoid the scavengers at the scene.

 

[saor]

Could've used this 2 weeks back when we went past a nasty accident on the black road and the driver got a puncture while swerving to avoid the scavengers at the scene.

You sound like a farm kid. We went to the big city on the black roads!

 

[R13...]

Bolt is dodgy. Had to use it last week and car turns up, driver looks like a minibus taxi driver. Dude looks in need of a bath and uses phone in hand to navigate. Sheesh, at least buy a cheap holder. And car none too clean either.

 

[SlinkyMike]

Bolt is dodgy. Had to use it last week and car turns up, driver looks like a minibus taxi driver. Dude looks in need of a bath and uses phone in hand to navigate. Sheesh, at least buy a cheap holder. And car none too clean either.

Raggedy-ass cars and a couple of drivers I swear can't actually have been driving for more than a week never mind pass the K53.

 

[Herr der Verboten]

Bolt launches SOS button

Bolt has launched an emergency response button which its passengers can use if they find themselves in trouble.

This SOS button is found within the Bolt app's Safety Toolkit, and allows passengers to connect with 24/7 private armed response teams, private emergency medical services, and roadside assistance.

So now you can call a car to hijack

 

[The_Ogre]

Could've used this 2 weeks back when we went past a nasty accident on the black road and the driver got a puncture while swerving to avoid the scavengers at the scene.

My wife took the car to a place to have it serviced and took Bolt home. Since she knows Mitchell's Plain much better than Kraaifontein (where we live), she decided to take the car there. It's ****ing far, but women don't listen. On her way back with Bolt, the driver ran out of petrol.

In the rain.

So I had to get my neighbour to go fetch her. Luckily it was only about 2 or 3km's from home. And it was a stroke of luck that it was raining, else he would have been at work (he runs a construction/renovation company).

 

[The_Ogre]

Forgot to add, she now refuses to use Bolt, even though I've explained to her that almost all drivers drive for both Bolt and Uber, they just respond to the request that either app sends. She's steadfast "I'm not using Bolt, they're schit"

 

[Herr der Verboten]

Forgot to add, she now refuses to use Bolt, even though I've explained to her that almost all drivers drive for both Bolt and Uber, they just respond to the request that either app sends. She's steadfast "I'm not using Bolt, they're schit"

Like edit a post?

 

[Herr der Verboten]

Forgot to add, its a button you can press

 

[Fulcrum29]

All of my local Bolt drivers are also Uber drivers. Same guys always pick me up, know where they live too.

 

[The_Ogre]

All of my local Bolt drivers are also Uber drivers. Same guys always pick me up, know where they live too.

It's the same with me. Some idiot wrote my car off five years ago and I was stuck with the instalment for another two years so couldn't buy another car. So for the last 5 years, if my wife isn't home, I have to take Uber or Bolt. And with me working from home, that means most of the time.

Irrespective of which app I use, at least 90% of the time it's someone whom I've driven with before. And I've queried that with them before and was told that they are driving for both.

I just choose whichever is the cheapest and that varies weekly. For them it does make a difference as the commission Bolt takes is less.