JOHANNESBURG – Uber says its new money cost system is extensively supported by its drivers regionally and riders globally.
This comes amid tensions between Uber drivers and the metered taxi business, which has seen Uber drivers intimidated and attacked.
The Gauteng Group Security Division has stepped in to attempt to mediate the dispute.
Uber’s Alon Lits says clients will now have the ability to choose the money choice when utilizing the service.
He says the corporate has held discussions with Uber drivers who help the choice.
“They’ve seen individuals wanting to make use of the platform and however haven’t been capable of due to a money limitation. Drivers raised this with us.”
Lits says the brand new system will nonetheless be subjected to the identical monitoring and security measures.
“Security options, together with checks and balances, stay the identical. That hasn’t been a problem in different markets. Money in Nairobi has been lively for a few yr.”
Lits says the choice to implement the system got here after knowledge revealed that almost all of taxi transactions in South Africa are money-based mostly.
(Edited by Shimoney Regter)