Simple, carrot to entice riders to use it, as per normal Uber policy, the Driver get poke from behind again

The "tempang" culture is already hard wired into our society, Uber did it first, and now Grab is continuing the good work, and the "tempang" crowd will happily go where the promotion are
But who can blame them? Our streets are not design for walking, or safe from snatch thieves. Considering 500m walk = 6-8minutes (sweaty smelly colleagues in meeting room is not nice at all)


I'm a Grab driver(ex Uber), running on incentive mode, picking up RM3-6 most of the time (Grab is certainly losing money on me, as the incentive is more than Grab Commission)
How long can Grab continue paying incentives?
If Grab stop the incentives... who will service these RM3-6 rides?

taxi sapu know the price and destination before agree to take


Is e-hailing public transport?

Lots of view points on should driver know the price/destination before pickup, and should driver be force to pickup non-agreeable job?

my own personal view, if e-hailing is public transport, then yes, driver need to pickup all, but if e-hailing is not public transport then driver should have the say
I would put e-hailing as not public transport
Why not let the free market decide on the correct fare+destination?
(if drivers are not picking some fare+destination, just means there is a price mismatch)

Then again, e-hailing in under SPAD ( Suruhanjaya Pengangkutan Awam Darat ) - public transport
if e-hailing need to behave like public transport, there should be no option to accept pickup (all pickup is mandatory), no cancellation is allowed unless vehicle got problem.
Rider rating will be discontinued, as all pickup is mandatory
.... and e-hailing drivers get some subsidies for doing public transport


note: those Taxi association really got no head, if they do, they just need demand fair competition (e-hailing must do mandatory pickup) and you would see e-haling drivers quitting by the lorry loads

Let's see, if i''m a driver camping at TBS @ 12:00 am, there's a ping request coming from Uber (without destination and price) , on the other hand, i also got GRAB, where i know the destination + price. What to do? What to do?

Simple, wait for GRAB ping, if Uber ping comes, accept it, but ignore it and wait for RM5
(at same time, the driver will be listening to song "Madu dan Racun")

** Above is ajaran sesat, and there is a lot of lost soul at 12:00 am


On the other hand, why the insist on using Uber? and waste 2 hours of sleeping time?

If the driver already know your destination+price and yet choose not to take you, this is a classic case of price/demand mismatch.
The most simple solution is to let the free market decide on the correct price for any service.

The drivers, they will do what they want to do.

Like the taxi service, the public been calling SPAD to revoke those drivers that violate the rule for years, but SPAD never get to do so, maybe they know, if they ever do, there will be near zero taxi drivers on the road

How many drivers are there in malaysia? (at current price point)
How many can you ban? How much can Uber/Grab squeeze the driver before they quit?

Hmmm, maybe soon, foreigners will be allowed to become drivers also (dream come true for Uber/Grab/xxx)
** this is inevitable, as they already have taken over most of the manual labor
** remaining local driver will be squeezed out as we cannot compare on labor cost

+1, Uber must survive, once Grab conquer all, both riders + drivers will suffer

In 5 Years, no more real drivers, for people out there that buy new car just to do Uber/Grab, may god have mercy on ya

https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/7/16615290...dler-autonomous

My money is on merger, they always says no before they do

ublur already bleeding every month, after merger driver will be bleeding

and in 5 years, you don't need driver anymore, just need to keep churning new driver until autonomous car is ready

Countdown already started
5 years max, no more human drivers

find alternatives before too late

should be much cheaper than current car, less parts required to make car
Items not required :- steering wheel,pedals, dashboard, windscreen wipers, expensive headlamps (just some LED to let human to see car, good enough)
Total redesign of interior space possible with removal of driver

6 in a group?, no need request for 6seater car. normal car will support 6 people (just duplicate front seat same as back seat)
Turn seat around, can play mahjong

Automated driver much safer and less accident, human driver car insurance premium will jump

Some city (like Singapore), they might even ban human driver from roads
- removal of all traffic lights, traffic will be much smoother
- Public buses can run every 5 minutes interval, Mini-buses take over during non peak hours
- emergency vehicle will not be block anymore by inconsiderate human drivers
- bicycle lanes can be easily created
- land required for road will be much less (no need middle divider, emergency lane )
- tidal flow traffic will be seamless

Data collection..
- since all car got camera, once a robber rob a bank, where they wanna run? hahahaha
- all these cars can also collect data for lotsa stuffs

Bad part
- local goverment lose source of income (speeding, illegal parking, traffic violation)
- all Uber/Grab/taxi/bus driver now need to sell Ramly Burger
- car dealership + car accessory + spare part shops , most will close down
- car salesman,car accessory installer join to sell Ramly Burger

Conclusion... buy Ramly Burger share
(Oops . they are not listed in KLSE)

https://qz.com/1183770/softbank-wants-uber-...ter-investment/

few years back, those taxi drivers was thinking the same

who wanna take private car?
surely the SPAD cannot approve
where got license
the gomen depend on our vote
we provide essential service

where are they now?

the march of technology spares no one, embrace it or get obsolete

https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles...hailing-service

Level-5, full autonomous, it is ready, how fast to reach our shores? just ask those taxi drivers

This post has been edited by ikanair: Feb 18 2018, 11:57 PM

Already approved in US. China won't be far behind, rest of the world will just follow, as they always do

Proton? non issue, already sold to Geely

It also depends how tech company roll out the model

The fastest would be to license it, Waymo, provide software, the rest of players go whack it out among themselves

note: the chinese are trying to catch up on autonomous driving, the government just given the green light for open road testing, you can only assured of 1 thing, "China Speed"

http://www.scmp.com/tech/start-ups/article...rs-bid-catch-us

90% of accident are caused by human drivers, remove them and the accident rate drop. and.. insurance company will say "cars with human drivers will need to pay extra insurance, risk is higher", and if lo and behold, most people don't drive anymore, one more round of insurance increase as pool of funds limited.

when traffic light disable, with malaysian drivers, who more garang get to move , if two together also garang, maybe accident/deadlock jam/post fb road rage.

Autonomous cars no need traffic lights, if adoption is high enough, some city might even do away with traffic lights and implement rule "if you wanna drive in this city, you need turn on auto drive"

You know all those Lembu/"P" drivers? all these are hazard on the road while waiting for them to be competent drivers
With, auto cars, zero learning curve, what is encountered by 1 car, can be learn by all cars

when it comes, would you even want to buy a car?

Say you drive 8 hours in city, then you go lepak at mamak 4 hours TCSS, maybe spend total 12hours outside of house
(those 8 hours is nonstop drive)

or

you go lepak at mamak(airport), once few hours you got job, total time also 12hours , but total lepaking time is much more
maybe earn less/more, but hey, quality of life much better if you like to lepak and TCSS
*maintenance+petrol for car much less than run 8hours in city

Ever gone fishing?

https://www.lowyat.net/2018/158487/uber-agr...ations-to-grab/

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