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Any firsthand accounts of Didi Kuaidi pricing from chinese HNers? I took a few cabs around shanghai in 2008 and was floored at how cheap their prices were. If
by GigabyteCoin 11y ago
Any firsthand accounts of Didi Kuaidi pricing from chinese HNers?
I took a few cabs around shanghai in 2008 and was floored at how cheap their prices were.
If Didi Kuaidi is undercutting taxi prices, and Uber is trying to undercut them... ridesharing must be almost free in major chinese cities at this point I'm assuming?
- mahyarm 11y agoGo move your uber app to various cities in the world, and you soon learn a 30 minute ride in a developing country costs about $3 in general.
- dingo_bat 11y agoMy Uber (pool) ride to office costs ~$1 in Bangalore. $3 as tip is not less.
- seanmcdirmid 11y agoSo didi offers a couple of services: a taxi service, it just helps you hail a normal metered cab. I use that service every day, and it is no more expensive than doing it the old fashioned way...but during peak, I can input a tip (up to 20 kuai, or about $3), which helps me get a cab when I would otherwise not be able to. Call that "surge pricing" I guess. The black car service, my wife uses that more. I have trouble using it since I can't epay (no chinese ID number to link to my unionpay card). But the cars are nice, the prices are a bit higher than taxis but we often get coupons that bring the price down. Still nowhere near to the cost of a taxi in the west.
- pfarnsworth 11y agoHow does this compare to Uber?
- seanmcdirmid 11y agoI actually haven't used Uber in China. It isn't that big in Beijing, but I hear in places like Guangzhou it has much more of a presence. As far as I can tell, they have about the same cars working for them (they can take hails from both); I'm guessing the only difference is in the subsidy.
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