Product design question
Imagine that you are a product manager at Uber. And you want children to use Uber as an independent user. How would you tackle this problem? Feel free to either build a new app or modify existing app.
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What this question tests
Product sense balancing a new use case against significant safety, trust and legal constraints.
How to approach it
- Clarify the age range and confirm this is about a minor riding without a parent physically present.
- Identify the core pain point: parents need control and visibility, children need a simple safe way to request rides.
- Propose a parent-controlled companion mode: approved pickup and dropoff locations, live trip tracking, a vetted driver pool, and an emergency check-in flow.
- Prioritize parental controls and driver vetting first, since trust and safety is the primary adoption blocker.
- Define success as parent opt-in rate and completed-trip rate with zero safety incidents.
- Note the legal and regulatory constraints on minors riding alone.
What a strong answer includes
- Frames the parent as the real decision-maker and customer, not just the child as end user.
- Names concrete safety features: geofenced approved locations, live tracking shared with the parent, and a vetted driver pool.
- Flags legal and liability considerations, age limits and local regulations, as a real constraint, not an afterthought.
- Picks safety-incident rate as a guardrail metric above adoption or ride volume.
Common mistakes
- Designing a simplified UI for kids without addressing the core parental trust and safety problem.
- Ignoring legal and regulatory constraints around minors riding alone.
Likely follow-up questions
- How would you vet drivers specifically for rides involving minors?
- What would you do if a local regulation banned unaccompanied minors from rideshare entirely?
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Chapters of the AI PM course that teach what this question tests.
- Chapter 4: Discovery and strategy for AI products
- Chapter 7: AI UX and human oversight: design for a system that is wrong sometimes
- Chapter 14: Get the job: the AI PM interview loop