Middle East’s Uber-like service adopts facial recognition technology
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Careem, the region’s equivalent of Uber, operates in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, Pakistan, Jordan, Morocco, Bahrain, Kuwait and Lebanon. Zak Doffman, CEO at Digital Barriers, said service providers in various industries were looking to camera-embedded and smartphone application identity assurance as part of their business processes. Separately, Careem has teamed up with NEXT Future Transportation to bring “battery-powered, self-driving electric pods” to the Middle East and North Africa. NEXT’s pods are described as a modular transport system and can drive individually or attached to others to form a bus-like structure, allowing passengers to move between the linked vehicles. Careem said the pods would be safer, more efficient and more environmentally friendly than current vehicles and would reduce congestion.
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