It was the Uber ride that put the woman from Phoenixville in harm’s way, the night she came from from a night at the Valley Forge Casino and was sexually assaulted by her driver.

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But it was the Uber technology that began the process of uncovering what happened to her, helping to set the foundation for the conviction last week of the man who committed the assault.

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Civil attorney Shanin Specter of the Philadelphia law firm of Kline & Specter, whose his firm had begun representing some clients in cases involving ride sharing services, speculated however that Uber and Lyft drivers might be less likely to act inappropriately because they are more often tracked by the company through its digital applications and can thus face scrutiny through their electronic footprints — exactly as what happened in Elgaafary’s case.