During the Ride

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Welcome to Lesson 3: During the Ride

There are 5 activities in this lesson:

  1. Watching a video tutorial

  2. Answering practice questions

  3. Sorting sentences

  4. Answering questions while watching videos

  5. Thinking of your own examples

After completing this lesson, you should be able to:

  • Know safe and appropriate behaviors during a rideshare ride

  • Decide if something is OK or NOT OK to say to the driver

  • Make a confident but polite request to the driver

  • Remember three actions you can take if you feel unsafe during the ride

  • Know what to say if you want to end the ride

  1. Watch the Video

Watch this 6-minute video to learn about being safe and appropriate during a rideshare ride.

Replay part or all of it as many times as you want.

You can turn captions on or off with the 'cc' button in the player.

2. Answer the Questions

  • Answer the 8 questions.

  • Click 'Submit' then 'View accuracy' to check your answers.

    • You may need to scroll up on this page to see the 'View accuracy' button.

    • This will open on a new page, so be sure to come back to this page to finish the lesson. You may need to scroll down to see the next activity.

  • Try the questions as many times as you want by clicking 'Submit another response'. You can replay parts of the video in activity #1 to help you answer questions.

  • You may want to talk through the questions together with your teacher or counselor.

3. Decide if it's OK to say to the driver

Drag the sentences to show if they are OK or NOT OK to say to a rideshare driver. Click 'check' to check your answers and 'retry' try again.

4. Watch the Videos and Answer the Questions

Watch 2 examples of making requests during the ride. Answer the 3 questions that you see in the video. Click the blue 'play' button to continue the video after answering the questions.

Watch 2 examples of talking with the driver during the ride. Answer the 3 questions that you see in the video. Click the blue 'play' button to continue the video after answering the questions.

5. Think of Your Own Examples

If you have used rideshare before:

  • Have you ever felt unsafe during a rideshare ride?

  • What made you feel unsafe?

  • What did you do?

If you are new to rideshare or haven't felt unsafe in the past:

  • What is one situation that would make you feel unsafe during a rideshare ride?

  • What would you do?

Write down your ideas below, or remember them to talk about with your teacher or counselor.

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This is the end of Lesson 3.

The Safe Rideshare Program was developed as the final capstone project of an Occupational Therapy Doctoral student at Virginia Commonwealth University. This site is intended to increase awareness and knowledge of what rideshare is and how to use it safely. On its own, it is not sufficient to ensure an individual can take rideshare safely or transfer their knowledge to performance in real-world situations. The Safe Rideshare Program, its creators, and Virginia Commonwealth University are not responsible for any negative experiences or personal harm that results from using rideshare.
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