Uber Drivers Worried about Lack of Safety Protocols

By Arielle ApplebyAfter a passenger looped a wire around an Uber driver’s neck and cinched it tight last month, police say the woman broke free and bolted from her car, screaming as she burst into the closest store in sight, pleading for someone to call 911.While sitting at a red light at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Columbus Avenue in Boston’s South End, police say Christopher Dawkins, 24, of Dorchester, looped a wire around an Uber driver’s neck and strangled