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I'm surprised (not that surprised) to hear there's ride sharing apps in China at all. I lived in Beijing for a few months several years ago and the taxis are (f
by tomkat0789 11y ago
I'm surprised (not that surprised) to hear there's ride sharing apps in China at all. I lived in Beijing for a few months several years ago and the taxis are (for a foreigner) pretty reasonable and efficient. Besides better public transport, taxis were everywhere, some were just motorized three wheeled motorbikes with a little chair on the back. Besides those, one night while getting a taxi to a bar, a random person stopped by and offered us a ride. My Chinese friends negotiated a pretty reasonable price to get across the city.
The point is, I think ride sharing apps have much more competition in China/Asia. It's not just terrible bus systems and inefficient taxi services like in America.
- mikeash 11y agoTaxis are indeed cheap and plentiful, but the ride sharing services are somewhat cheaper and somewhat easier to hail. Plus, the customer base is so gigantic that there's room for many players. It's not like some US cities where Uber is displacing traditional taxi services that charge $400/mile to ride in a broken-down Chevy driven by an escaped axe murderer, but you don't necessarily need that much of an edge.