I officially became a ride-sharing convert a few years ago when I forgot my wallet in a cab on the way to catch a train at Penn Station. I spent the next eight hours trying to track down the driver before asking dozens of strangers for a free subway ride and eventually walking through the pouring rain to a taxi company in Queens— a borough that seemingly made the conscious decision to number its buildings in a way that lets you experience what it would be like to have to navigate your way around Tokyo not knowing a single word of Japanese without ever having to leave New York City.
In a move that sure to comfort anyone who’s paranoid apps are recording every single aspect of human life, Uber recently released a bunch of data they compiled over the past year while tracking the things people left behind in their fleet of cars. You probably won’t be surprised to learn that riders most commonly neglect to take things with them between the hours of 11 PM and 1 AM, with the following items being the most commonly forgotten in general:
They also compiled a list of some of the more unique items that have been temporarily abandoned, which includes some of the following highlights:
I hope the person who lost their brother had an easier time tracking him down than I did with my wallet.
