Didi Launches Car Rental Service In China 10
An anonymous reader writes: Ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing is adding a car rental service for customers in several cities, to take advantage of the enormous domestic tourism market in China. Users can reserve a car through the Didi app and have it delivered to their door within two hours. The service, which is currently in beta testing in Shanghai, is expected to expand to several more cities in China over the next year. In a statement the company said, "Didi car rental is launched in response to the boom in China's short-term and tourist car rental market as the population goes through a lifestyle revolution." In 2015, 2.34 billion cars were rented for domestic tourists in China. That number is expected to more than double, reaching 5.8 billion by 2020.The move comes weeks after Uber announced it was selling its Chinese operation to Didi.
and if there is any ding dent breakdown the renter (Score:3)
and if there is any ding dent breakdown the renter is on the hook. Better get an automatic transmission or you may be on the hook to fix the clutch even if it brakes down right a way due the last renters riding it.
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Seems to be working ok for Zipcar, Getaround and Enterprise who are all running the same service, just without the delivery aspect. So I think you are wrong here.
Who cares? (Score:1)
Seriously. Slashdot news?
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Seriously. Slashdot news?
New services in the 2nd largest economy, an economy that is increasing its technical sophistication and know-how? Tech news are not limited to gadgets and virtual pr0n, just so you know.
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Seriously. Slashdot news?
New services in the 2nd largest economy, an economy that is increasing its technical sophistication and know-how? Tech news are not limited to gadgets and virtual pr0n, just so you know.
Not to mention that Didi's reservation service via mobile apps, though not necessarily revolutionary in technical terms, it is quite so in its end-to-end service Reserving a car rental to be delivered at home, no one does that. This poses logistic challenges - repairs, insurance, delivery, recovery, maintenance, claims - those which will be met with technological means, and, if lucky, would provide case studies applicable to other areas in any sufficiently industrialized country.
If that's not tech, I ques