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Uber slashes fees in Bangladesh as drivers keep taking rides offline (restofworld.org)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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Jitu Jisan is a Pathao bike-taxi driver in Dhaka. But, he said, taking bookings through the ride-hailing app is always the last resort for him. Typically, he uses the Pathao app only to find a customer, and once he meets them, he turns off the app, strikes a direct deal, and goes khep.

Khep is a popular colloquial term used for gig drivers bypassing platforms like Pathao and Uber in Bangladesh. In Bangla, khep translates to “side hustle.” “We’d rather khep than work on the apps. All the effort is from [the drivers’] end anyway,” Jisan told Rest of World. “The motorcycles are ours, the bills for petrol are ours, it’s our hard work. Platforms only help by getting us on the apps, and even for that, they’re charging a commission.”

Over 60% of respondents in an April 2023 survey of 59 commuters in Bangladesh said they had taken khep riders in 2023, according to a study conducted by a group of researchers associated with BRAC University in Dhaka. It is estimated that there were 7.5 million rides per month across the country in 2020, and earlier this year, the research director at Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies said that the ride-sharing market is the largest segment within the country’s gig economy, worth $259 million in 2023 and expected to grow to $1 billion in the next five to seven years.

read more: https://restofworld.org/2023/uber-commission-fees-bangladesh/

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How would you ensure safety of drivers and passengers with open source platforms?

Wouldn't you need some sort of centralized authority to take on that risk and enforce rules to be followed and ban certain people from the platform?

[–] eskimofry 0 points 1 year ago

Bitch please. As if uber gives 2 shits about secruity. They are an app platform? What are you going to do, run into a local tech park and shout at the receptionist "EMERGENCY!". They will kick you out fast like they do a hobo in NYC.