Uber driver who was falsely accused of rape and subjected to torrent of abuse because he didn’t have a phone charger is rewarded by company with lifetime supply of cables – and a bonus

The driver’s original video of his harrowing ride with the passenger went viral
In a new video, the driver shares his experiences and his gifts from Uber
Uber commended him for recording the incident with various phone chargers
The row is said to have started because the passenger’s phone ran out of battery
She threatens to ‘start screaming out the window that you’re raping me’
It comes amid controversy over the car service’s background checking policy

The Uber driver who filmed his harrowing ride with a female passenger threatening to ‘falsely accuse’ him of rape for not having a phone charger she can use has shared his experiences in a new video.

The unidentified driver, sitting in his car, says he met with Uber officials on Friday at company offices to explain the situation to them and was rewarded for his efforts.

‘They were all kind of speechless about it’, he tells the camera.

As a token of Uber’s appreciation, the driver says the company gave him a ‘lifetime supply’ of various phone chargers after the belligerent passenger complained he didn’t have one for her to use.

‘I bet I will never have a problem of a charger anymore’, he says with a smile as he empties the phone charges from a black bag onto the passenger seat.

He adds that they commended him for recording the incident because it will change how they will resolve issues with customers who report allegations against drivers to the police.

In the shocking dashcam video of the altercation Monday in the Bronx, New York, an unidentified woman can be heard shouting from the backseat: ‘I’m going to start screaming out the window that you’re raping me, that you raped me.

‘I will punch myself in the face and tell the cops you did it. You wanna play?’

The driver repeatedly asks her to leave the car as she screams racial slurs in his direction.

An Uber spokesman told MailOnline: ‘The behaviour in this video is abusive and completely unacceptable.

‘As our Community Guidelines make clear, this will not be tolerated by anyone who uses Uber. The rider’s account has been banned and Uber is looking into this incident.’

Uber also gave him ‘some amount of money’ for his hardship, he says without disclosing the exact sum.

In the more than six-minute-long video, the driver addresses some of the comments people had about the incident, including his reason for not contacting police.

The driver says he was using his only phone to record the incident and didn’t feel comfortable turning it off.

‘I didn’t trust that girl enough to turn off the phone and call the cops and then turn it back on … she was already lying; she could say anything she wanted when I turned off the phone,’ he says.

Based on comments the passenger made to the driver, he felt he had good reason to keep the camera rolling.

At one point in the original video the woman tells the driver to ‘go back to your country’ and that ‘Donald Trump will send you back to your country’.

‘What she failed to understand is that I came here legally. … I don’t do drugs, I don’t drink. I don’t fight, I don’t be in trouble. I don’t do none of that s***. I just work to make a living,’ the driver says in the new video.