Uber now allows you to order cars for your elderly parents and drunk friends

The days of playing phone tag with Uber drivers and drunk friends are over.

Uber has finally added a feature that allows you to order a ride for someone else, the company announced on Tuesday. But critically, this new features puts the Uber you ordered in contact with the person who is riding, rather than directing all communications to you by default.

Ordering a ride for someone else works the same way as ordering a ride for yourself. But now a new "who will be riding?"prompt allows you to add someone else by name or number. Read more...