"Coach filed": 12 interesting facts about Uber, who hates all taxi drivers in the world

Literally, since as a service Uber saw the light, he is accompanied by problems downright universal scale: against it are the taxi drivers, city officials, and he, meanwhile, only grows and spreads. < 1. Service changed the classical model movement in the city. Instead of aggregated offers taxis, Uber offered to users to become drivers and earn money on transportation.



2. Uber works with a mobile application that connects people who want to go with someone who can take. Briefly, the process can be described as follows: the customer reserves a car with a driver, it tracks the movement to the specified point, the trip paid for by credit card. Service with a driver takes a commission from the cost of the trip.





3. application allows passengers to assess the quality of the trip, so drivers have formed the rating.





4. According to the concept Uber, no cash payments between the driver and the passenger should not be, that is, the service does not encourage tipping, which in many countries decided to leave the taxi drivers.





5. Until 2012, provide taxi services with the help of Uber could only owners of luxury cars, but later the service was extended.





6. Business analysts argue that further expansion of the company lead to the fact that while waiting for a taxi will be reduced to a few minutes, and the fare is reduced so that the users will eliminate the need to buy your own car.





7. In Russia, Uber is running in only two cities: Moscow and St. Petersburg.





8. «Thanks to" traditional taxi service at any big problems. The fact that the speed of service Uber far exceeds the possibilities of a taxi, and the prices are too low smack of dumping.



9. June 25, 2015, French employees taxis came to protest against the Uber. During the protest were blocked roads to airports and train stations in Paris, as well as flipped and smashed several cars collaborated with Uber.



10. in the confrontation with Uber including Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and other countries. In most cases, the problem is that the service is "killing a taxi", but there are several other reasons for discontent, for example, drivers often do not have the license required by law.



11. November 25, 2014, some avtoritenye online edition of Uber accused that service for Android application has access to multiple functions running. Uber explained that despite the fact that the application is available for really some private information (eg, SMS), it is not sent to the server.





12. The government of New York trying to legislatively limit the rate of growth of services like Uber, one percent a year, however, Uber was able to negotiate with them. But soon they were overtaken by a new problem: the administration of the State of California has fined service at 7, 5 million dollars for failure to disclose statistics on disabled drivers.

via factroom.ru