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Uber releases list of strangest lost-and-found items: Dentures, butterflies, dishwasher
Uber said more than 1 million phones were left behind last year as it added new app tools to help riders recover missing items.
On Tuesday, Uber released its 10th annual Lost & Found Index, revealing the most common and peculiar items left behind by Canadian riders over the past year.
Since 2016, Uber has tracked forgotten belongings, providing an anthropological snapshot of riders through millions of items ranging from mundane smartphones to eyebrow-raising objects like live fish and ankle monitors.
In Toronto, riders left a 15-lb. frozen turkey and turtle shell; Vancouver passengers forgot a 25-lb. weight; Winnipeg travelers abandoned two humidifiers, according to the index.
Saskatchewanians proved the country's most forgetful, with Saskatoon and Regina topping the list, while Ottawa, Toronto, and Calgary continued their streak as Canada's least forgetful cities.
Uber is adapting its recovery systems for AVs amid expanding robotaxi operations, ensuring riders retrieve lost property seamlessly even without a human driver behind the wheel.