just weeks after the death of a university of south carolina student who was killed after getting into a car that she believed was her uber other rideshare companies are increasing their security features she was found dead in a wooded area after a night out with friends in columbia south carolina police said that after josephson got into the car her suspected killer activated the child safety door locks preventing her from escaping more tips to rideshare safely after college student killed mistaking car for uber her parents marci and seymour josephson spoke to george stephanopoulos on good morning america on monday and urged for updated safety measures and changes to the laws to prevent future incidents you have to change the way that the laws are to make it safer because thats our nature security video showed her getting into a car around 2 am which police believe she thought was the uber shed requested one new feature is continuous criminal background checks which will include daily monitoring of its active drivers and provide immediate notification of any disqualifying criminal convictions we automatically assume that were safe marci josephson said kelly sullivangetty images file more parents of slain college student samantha josephson speak out on ridesharing safety the changes come just weeks after 20yearold samantha josephson was killed but the company has been using continuous criminal background checks since last year and has its own realtime identification verification that has been in use for the last two years according to a spokeswoman from uber on monday lyft announced that they were including two new safety features in addition to the background checks that are already well established on the company platform a lyft driver jan 31 2017 in san francisco the company also announced enhanced identity verification which will combine driver license verification and photography verification to prevent identity fraud any driver who does not pass both the annual and continuous screenings will be barred from our platform according to the companys blog she had ordered an uber to take her home in the early hours of march 29 uber has so far not announced any changes to its security platform since the incident i think its just become such a natural or new phenomenon using uber we trust people and you cant