Uber introduced several new features on Wednesday through the firm’s annual Go-Get product showcase.

The new choices embody the flexibility to order a trip with a automobile seat, to name an Uber with out the app, and so as to add teens to a household profile, amongst others. This 12 months’s Go-Get occasion marks Uber’s first in-person press convention because the pandemic.

“Whether you are staying house or getting on the market, we’re constructing with people for people,” CEO Dara Khosrowshahi mentioned through the occasion.

Shares of Uber are up round 51% year-to-date and, in a launch about Uber’s first-quarter results earlier this month, Khosrowshahi mentioned the corporate is off to a “robust begin” for the 12 months. The new options present an instance of how the corporate hopes to take care of its momentum whereas opponents like Lyft, which is down about 25% year-to-date, proceed to wrestle.

Here are the important thing new choices introduced on Wednesday:

Uber Car Seat

Families and caregivers in Los Angeles and New York City will be capable to request a trip with a automobile seat for youngsters as much as 65 lbs as half of Uber’s partnership with the automobile seat firm Nuna. Uber plans to roll out this function in additional cities sooner or later.

1-833-USE-UBER

Uber has launched a telephone quantity individuals can name to book a trip with out utilizing the Uber app. The firm mentioned it will assist individuals who may wrestle with navigating smartphones or apps entry the identical “easy” Uber expertise. People within the U.S. can request a trip by talking English or Spanish at 1-833-USE-UBER, or 1-833-873-8237.

“We all know that not everyone seems to be snug utilizing a telephone or an app to name an Uber, like my mother-in-law,” Khosrowshahi mentioned. “What may very well be simpler for her?”

Family profiles and teenage accounts

Beginning May 22, youngsters between the ages of 13 and 17 will be capable to request their very own deliveries and rides. Consenting dad and mom and guardians may have full management over their teens’ accounts, they usually can monitor journeys and deliveries in real-time. Uber mentioned solely “extremely rated” and skilled drivers will be capable to full rides with teens.

Teen accounts can be out there in choose cities within the U.S. and Canada. They could be arrange and managed inside a “household profile” within the Uber app, which permits a number of accounts to be linked beneath one centralized cost methodology.

“It is all about serving to you handle the craziness that encompasses household life in 2023,” Khosrowshahi mentioned through the occasion.

Group Grocery Orders

Family members, mates or roommates can now construct group grocery orders via Uber Eats. Users can invite contributors so as to add objects, set recurring orders and set deadlines for when to order. Eligible retailers will even assist teams type out prices by mechanically splitting the invoice.

Group Rides

With group rides, Uber customers will quickly be capable to invite family and friends so as to add their addresses to a journey. Uber will mechanically replace the stops so the motive force takes probably the most environment friendly route, and every particular person can be charged in keeping with the quantity of time they spent on the journey.

Video Gift Messaging

Uber Eats customers can file a customized in-app video message once they ship items to family and friends. The video can be out there for the reward recipients to observe of their Uber Eats app.

Initially, customers will solely be capable to connect movies to financial reward playing cards despatched via the platform, however Uber mentioned it’ll quickly increase to deliveries as nicely.