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Well, https://adlibventures.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/daycare-sc...

I've only seen that in Japan so far but both there and in New York I've seen the long leash where each child is clipped on with a harness. But these are for daycares and school field trips... clearly ripe for disruption. What parents need is an app like Uber for when they just need to go somewhere now...

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Uber for kids is a fantastic idea (I mean really fantastic, as in, I fantasize about it regularly, usually while driving my kids back and forth).

I suspect the liability & trust problems would be insurmountable though. I'd pay up into the high hundreds per month to not have the time-suck of pick up & drop off constantly...

Perhaps parents could pool enough money together to actually keep a full-time chauffeur around somehow. Scheduling would be rather dicey though.

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If 15 parents would pay $3000 per year, they could give one person a $45k/year salary for their services. Somewhere in there is a way to get a TaskRabbit to Uber your kids to their next Meetup. Private daycares exist. Chauffeurs for kids exist for people with enough money, as do parents using Uber for their kids (there was an article here a while back about it). Start with children and then branch out to the elderly and disabled. Call it Chaperone. Piggyback on existing startups so that individuals don't have to be qualified as drivers, caretakers, etc.; their job as chaperones is to ensure that everyone else does their job while mostly just being there.

Found this but for at-home babysitters: https://angel.co/chaperone Don't know if telling people to "think Tinder" for the UI is the best association though.

I am not a parent, but I think we're losing some brightness in our future if we can't resolve trust issues that lie in the way of better services for parents and children. Lots to think about...