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A ton of Uber drivers in Chengdu are ex-taxi drivers. They get a car, quit, and often make 4x as much money while working for themselves while making new friends at the same time.
That’s interesting. I have only used uber a hand full of times, all have been young part time drivers so far.
Eventually it will be illegal to drive a car on the road purely because of safety reasons
Most of my driving experience is from europe and china. I can see driverless cars working in cities and motorways in developed areas. However a lot of driving is still country lanes and dust tracks with no traffic lights or road markings. This makes implementing driverless cars very difficult. You then have to factor in different regulations between countries in europe. Left hand drive cars operating in right hand drive countries and visa versa. We have a long long way to go, and a lot of obstacles to overcome and infastructute to build to get there.
you honestly think self driving cars and ride sharing won’t replace private ownership for the majority of people you should get back in your carriage and whip your horse home.
For numerous reasons people aspire to owning private cars. Nowhere is that more clear than in China. For many it is a status symbol, others love driving, some like having a toy to modify and play with. You can see just how private cars are ingrained in our culture by looking at the volume of websites, magazines and tv shows that review and discuss them. Children grow up with pictures of super cars on their walls. Teenagers yearn for the day they can pass their driving test and buy their first car. It’s not just the freedom to go anywhere that it brings, it’s also the feeling of skilfully controlling something so powerful, having something valuable of your own to personalise and show off. We human beings love our possessions. Will the private car culture eventually be replaced by something else? Maybe, but it will be a very slow change that I don’t believe I will see complete in my lifetime.
It’s impractical to generalize about how much Uber drivers make because there are so many factors.
That was my point exactly. You can’t say that uber drivers make more money than taxi drivers as they are different models. Most drivers are not driving full time, and the ones that are see mixed results from what I have read.
And Johnny: your point about drivers making much more money, and more importantly, having a strong sense of purpose, is absolutely true.
I have no idea how much uber drivers are making in China, but I don’t believe it is approaching anywhere near 60k. There have been protests in both San Francisco and New York over pay. Some drivers are saying that they are earning less than minimum wage.
http://nypost.com/2014/10/22/uber-drivers-in-new-york-strike-to-protest-lower-pay/
http://time.com/92988/uberx-san-francisco-protest-uber/
Most major automobile manufacturers (General Motors, Ford, Toyota) will not survive the transition and will be out of business within 25 years.
Driverless cars and ride sharing apps are the future. I’m just not sure that they can ever replace private car ownership. I view them more as a replacement for taxis or city public transport.
I agree that the situation with 一号专车 is basically identical (for their lower end offers/cars)
Uber offer uber black in China which uses legally licenced drivers. These 2 services are completely identical.
The office I went to near the south train station didn’t require a translation of my passport. They made a few calls to confirm what documentation was required for a foreigner then processed everything as normal.
Apparently there was another taxi driver strike against uber in Chengdu on Sunday:
http://www.carnewschina.com/2015/05/11/chinese-taxi-drivers-on-strike-against-uber/
I am not using Uber primarily because I usually do not want to break the law of the country where I am located.
Uber is not illegal. If it was that simple then China would shut it down and block the app.
Drivers of private cars offering taxi services through ride hailing apps is illegal. I believe both 一号专车 and Uber currently both allow this.
Does anybody know if it is 15 working days?
I’m 99% sure that it is. My wife and I had a baby last year, I got 15 days. I looked it up at the time.
If your wife works then make sure that she receives the correct maternity leave too. Sichuan has an additional month for breastfeeding. The rough breakdown is:
98 days standard
30 days for giving birth after the age of 24
15 days for c-section; if deemed necessary by a doctor
30 days for breastfeeding
On returning to work, 1 paid hour per day in addition to existing breaks should be given for breastfeeding in the first year.
A HDTV copy has already been released.
They’re mislabelled. The leaked copies are DVDSCR – hence why there are no 720p or 1080p releases from the source.
I would rather wait and watch a HD copy each week than binge on 4 SD copies of dubious origin, then wait another month for a new episode.
I assume they mean that you need one of China Telecoms extortionately priced business connections. I will investigate and report back.
I can confirm that this is available to business customers in Chengdu. It requires an IP address change and a minimal charge, 100RMB/month in our case. We will probably give it a try soon.
I’m curious how you had set Alipay up? Which bank / ID formatting works, or maybe I just need to use my wife’s info?
Sorry, can’t help. I used a foreign credit card. I think even when you use alipay it is a foreign currency transaction.
I’d be curious to ask what their requirements for constituting ‘business use’ are, what sort of documentation is required etc.
I assume they mean that you need one of China Telecoms extortionately priced business connections. I will investigate and report back.
My WAN IP is 100.64.x.x Is this good or bad?
It’s good for China Telecom. They get to delay deploying IPv6 for a few more years.
It’s bad for heavy or more technical internet user as it can cause brokenness in applications, especially server based ones like bittorrent seeding.
http://chrisgrundemann.com/index.php/2011/nat444-cgn-lsn-breaks/
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/technology-research/2013/cgnat.pdf
I’m curious to know how many of you are on carrier-grade NAT now? China Telecom have been discretely moving people on to it for a couple of years. Check to see if your WAN IP is 100.64.x.x.
They sell some more expensive versions of what appears to be the same thing on JD
Sadly they are all 3rd party sellers. If JD were selling them directly then I would just buy one to test.
