User highly praises the T-Safe app (Telangana police) for its comprehensive ride monitoring and safety features, including real-time location tracking, vehicle number tracking, a secret password, an SOS button, automated safety check-in calls, and direct police intervention for unusual stops. The user implies a strong desire for ride-sharing apps to adopt similar robust safety measures, especially for solo travelers.
i'm on a private bus right now, heading from andhra to hyd. the whole bus was empty when i got on. i checked online to see if anyone else had booked the same bus and only a man and a woman (a couple) did, but unfortunately they never boarded which sucked because i was really counting on the woman's presence lmao. en route to hyd, they let other men get on the bus without any official booking so right now it’s just me and around 5 other men on a dark bus in the middle of nowhere. every news story i've ever heard of about incidents on buses came rushing to my brain each time a new man got on 🥲 after a point, legit every noise and movement by men in the bus started making me jump, they're prolly good people but better be safe than sorry. i realised i most definitely did not want to travel for 7 hours with no peace of mind and then i suddenly remembered watching an ad about ride monitoring by TS police a couple of years ago so i looked it up and found an app called T-Safe. they track your location and the vehicle's number, there's a secret password you need to set, and there's an sos button as well. every hour or so, i started getting automated calls asking me to confirm whether i'm safe and isn't that like hella cool and fancy??? but what really blew my mind was that when my electric bus stopped for charging midway, just within 2–3 mins of it stopping, an actual police officer called me and asked why there has been no movement and if everything was okay. i told him i was on an electric bus, i explained the whole situation to him and how i'm the only woman on this bus and he was so sweet and reassuring. he told me not to worry. he even gave me his personal number and asked me to dial it if i'm worried about anything 😭🫶🏼 i thanked him a bunch of times and i honestly feel sooo much better. not many people know about this app, so i wasn't sure if it was even a working program anymore, and i most definitely didn't think actual police officers were out there tracking me. the ui of the app is extremely simple and intuitive. you can also access the T-Safe service by dialing 100 and pressing 8 on the keypad, or by visiting the T-Safe women safety website. both the links are attached below! app link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tswomensafety.tsafe website link: T-Safe (Travel Safe) https://share.google/xjqudSImXCgWt2lyB edit: reached home safely hehe