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Uber releases list of strangest lost-and-found items: Dentures, butterflies, dishwasher
Uber said more than 1 million phones were left behind last year as it added new app tools to help riders recover missing items.
- On Tuesday, Uber released its 10th annual Lost & Found Index, revealing the most common and peculiar items left behind by Canadian riders over the past year.
- Since 2016, Uber has tracked forgotten belongings, providing an anthropological snapshot of riders through millions of items ranging from mundane smartphones to eyebrow-raising objects like live fish and ankle monitors.
- In Toronto, riders left a 15-lb. frozen turkey and turtle shell; Vancouver passengers forgot a 25-lb. weight; Winnipeg travelers abandoned two humidifiers, according to the index.
- Saskatchewanians proved the country's most forgetful, with Saskatoon and Regina topping the list, while Ottawa, Toronto, and Calgary continued their streak as Canada's least forgetful cities.
- Uber is adapting its recovery systems for AVs amid expanding robotaxi operations, ensuring riders retrieve lost property seamlessly even without a human driver behind the wheel.
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Uber reveals the gross and absolutely bizarre items passengers lost on trips last year
Uber unveiled the most bizarre items passengers left behind during rides over the last year — and New York City clinched the badge of dishonor as the most "forgetful" metropolis in the US.
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