- Uber passengers and drivers will soon be required to wear face masks before being allowed to pick up passengers.
- Uber is working on facial recognition technology capable of identifying when a driver is wearing a face covering.
- The rule will be applied in areas hit especially hard by the coronavirus pandemic.
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With the coronavirus bringing much of the country to a standstill, essential businesses that have been allowed to remain open have been forced to tweak the way they do business. Restaurants, for example, now require patrons picking up food to adhere to social distancing guidelines. Some grocery stores, meanwhile, have started limiting the number of customers that can be inside at a given time.
Additionally, many states recently started implementing new guidelines with respect to wearing face masks out in public. In Illinois, for example, grocery stores — or any type of establishment that draws in large numbers of people — will not even let customers inside if they’re not wearing a face covering. It’s essentially something of a trade-off as some states begin to relax stay-at-home directives.
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