After launching in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Doha, Uber launched in Riyadh earlier today. Uber is a kind of taxi service where you can book a taxi from your phone. I tried it for the first time a few days ago when I was in Paris and I loved it.
The way Uber works is it will show you your location on a map as well as all the drivers in the area as soon as you launch the app. You can then get a price estimate to your destination and if you’re happy with it you can request for a pickup and they’ll send you a driver. Before the driver arrives you can track them to see how far they are, check out their profile as well as well as msg them your ETA in case you’re gonna be a bit late. Finally when they pick you up and drop you off the payment goes through automatically since you connect your paypal or credit card to your Uber account and you also get emailed a full breakdown of the journey including the distance traveled and time (check below).
Now that they launched in Riyadh I really hope they follow up with a launch in Kuwait. Anybody who’s ever taken a cab in Kuwait knows what a headache it can be from finding a cab to negotiating a price and then having to put up with old dirty cars and terrible driving.
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Only Saudi drivers are allowed to do that. If cops catch an expat picking up people for charges he can be deported in no time
@Ali says who??? if they’re licensed to do it then there won’t be any problem.
The way Uber works is you also get a lot of drivers who aren’t actual licensed drivers. Like if you have nothing to do for a couple of weeks you sign up with them and drive people around in your own car.
The taxi drivers in Kuwait would say “sorry sir app no working, meter broken too”…
Man Paris is expensive!!!
you paid 11 euros for less than 5Kms & the Avg speed is 25Kms/Hr, that sucks.
In other countries people pay money for gas
Paris cabs are crazy cheap compared to London.