Careem is the Pakistan’s largest ride hailing service which has extended its services in many cities of Pakistan.

Careem has introduced female captain program for women drivers on its captain batch to empower women. Named it #HerJourne.

Now, Careem Pakistan has hired more female drivers in the cities to ensure a safer ride for women.

According to the statistics provided by the company itself, 70% of the Careem users are female. Thus, Careem wants to introduce 1000 female drivers by last month of this year.

Careem made this announcement via Facebook saying:

Last year in December, Careem started a women empowerment program under the name of #MainHoonAzad. Careem is determined to provide the women a safe and comforting journey so the women who want to work can easily be financially independent without any problems of traveling.

The Managing Director of Careem Pakistan,  Junaid Iqbal said,

“Initially, we thought we should have an exclusive women service but that would not have been logistically possible. Instead, why not women driving men around,”

Just a few months ago, the ride hailing service has introduced an amazing initiative for women of Pakistan.  Now Careem is planning to empower 100, 000 women across Pakistan. The partners of the company will show full collaboration to facilitate women in business field.

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Daewoo ride hailing app launches to compete Uber and Careem

Gone are the days you would have to hail your hands and wait for a Rickshaw to stop. The booking of Cars nowadays is a matter of a click. With Uber and Careem competing over the customers, a new yet so familiar name has appeared on the scenes.

Daewoo imitates Nokia. Both went up soaring into success but with an imminent decline. Premium Daewoo Cab service would control the monopoly of transport then but with the rise of caand Uber, has been reduced to wilderness of its glory.

Struck by the desire to reclaim its glory Daewoo has returned with an App that, for now, spreads its wings in Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Multan, Peshawar, Abbottabad, Sialkot, Faisalabad and even Sukkur. The residents of Karachi would avail Rs.300 off their first ride by using Promo code: DAEWOOFIRST.

Daewoo Cab App appears to be a simpler version of either Careem or Uber, using just 6MB of space while both the latter rank up over 30MB. The animations are simple which may act in its favour. It however appears as Daewoo aims at utilizing all its luxury on road!

Aiming for the inclination of Upper Class, Daewoo costs twice that of Uber or Careem. You can pay through Easy Paisa, Debit/Credit Card and some other payment options.

You must sign up or sign in for the first attempt. Google Map has been integrated for fare collection and the app even shows your travel history. Better hide it from your parents!

Download the App:

• Download Daewoo App on Android
• Download Daewoo App on iOS

Daewoo aims at the Upper Class of Pakistan society, providing luxury cars and charging higher than either Careem or Uber. Ironically the Upper Class is never short of Cars.

With such limited genre, stiff competition, and higher rates the future of Daewoo seems uncertain, in my book to say the least. But time unfolds unheard mysteries! Who knows, you may be reading contents on how a creative idea brought about regeneration of Daewoo Cab Service, in short space of time.

Daewoo Cab Screenshots

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Ride hailing service Careem fires captains involved in fraudulent activities

Careem is the large name in ride hailing services not only in Pakistan but all across Asia. The service has been famous for its efficient services in hailing cabs.

There were rumors that the captains were involved in activities that were not allowed in the rule book. This came under cheating the company and dodging the policy. The rumors were confirmed by the officials at Careem. They told in their statement that large number of captains has seen their punishment for dodging the company in the shape of getting fired.

The captains at Careem were ditching the company in sense that they would book the rides themselves and try to meet the target. Once the target is met, the company owed them a bonus. They surely played a double benefit game. The company offered the captains bonuses on weekly, monthly and yearly target accomplishment.

The reports says,

“These captains had found a way of manipulating the system by going into deserted areas such as city outskirts — where chances of other captains on service are usually less — and then booking a ride (from other than their primary smart phone). This way, the same captain used to get the same ride that they had booked themselves.”

The very clever game was only played when only few rides were remaining for completing a specific target so that bonus could be bagged. Yes, this was not a daily game but happened occasionally.

Bogus rides were also booked by the captains when they were away from house of work place. In order to reach the home or workplace back they would book the fake rides to travel back home or to work place. This way they could get home and make money by bonuses.

The sources say,

“Careem’s fraud detection system — they call it Sherlock — was quick to identify such ghost rides and some 374 captains were flagged who were found involved in manipulating the system.”

Careem has always chosen the best men for services and have trained them about their job. These captains too were warned about the breaking of rules and punishment.

A source says that about 50 captains were fired and their IDs were blocked. Now these captains won’t be able to work with any such ride-hailing company. Other captains who were found guilty were fined. Their bonuses were reserved and they were allowed to work with last warning being given.

Update:

The authorities at Careem shared the response regarding the initiative with the media. In their view,

“Careem believes in fair play and just rewards for our Captains. There is no tolerance for fraudulent practices which people use to try and deceive us.

Fraud is a crime and they are only harming themselves as Careem’s systems are very good at picking up suspicious activities.

It’s unfortunate that people resort to unfair means to make a bit of money, they only end up spoiling it for themselves as Careem can block them permanently and penalize them.”

Our news source ProPakistan have got a hand on the screen-grab that shows that captains were involved in the acts that should not be done. We are sharing with you those pictures form Careem’s fraud detection software.

Have a look:

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Careem is the most used and one of the best ride hailing services across the Middle East and North Africa. The service has recently announced to introduce a branch in Palestine. Careem is determined to make its feet spread wide and provide better transportation facility to more people.

As per the companies commitment according to which it estimated that Careem will be providing one million jobs by 2018 in the areas of Middle East and North Africa. The program is being launched in Palestine to fulfill the commitment. This will empower the people of Palestine by trading of skills and knowledge of technology.

For this purpose, Careem has announced that it will hire 100 software engineers from Pakistan.

Mudassir Sheikha who is the CEO and co-founder of Careem said,

“At Careem, we are committed to solving local problems in our region by providing access to reliable transportation and aiding in the creation of jobs. But our region would not be complete without including Palestine. It is our sincere hope that our entry into Palestine will encourage other startups and technology companies to recognize the potential of the country as place of investment in this region.”

Over the years Palestine has suffered from the problems safe transportation. Transportation problems can hinder the growth of the country economically and socially. Careem is determined to improve any such facilities and make the life of people better by providing them with the easy, cheap and safe transportation.

Careem is determined to help the economy of the country to grow by provide hassle-free transport. The company provides better and efficient facility to travel. It will also create job opportunities for the people.

According to Palestinian Economic Policy Research,

“The vital importance of the transport and communication sector to the economy in terms of moving individuals and goods, and yet the transport and storage sector contributed just 1.7% to GDP in 2014.”

Careem is aiming t start the service in Ramallah from 15 of June, 2017. The service aims to expand the program in ore cities soon. The app will allow the people to choose the car type and book the ride via Careem App.

Careem started its services in 2012. Today it operates in about 50 cities of 12 countries and is used by 10 million users and 250,000 Captains (drivers) in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia region.

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The car-hailing service has been dented by a series of bad news stories. PHOTO: REUTERS

According to a representative of Uber from Arizona Uber has stopped the fleet of self driving cars. The reason behind this was the recent investigation  that is in process for the crash of Uber self-driving car that took place in Arizona.

According to the buzz there was no serious injury induced on anyone. The news said that on Friday in Tempe in Arizona a vehicle by Uber that was a Volvo SUV crashed when it was om self driving mode.

The Uber representative said,

“We are continuing to look into this incident and can confirm we had no backseat passengers in the vehicle.”

According to the police of Tempe the reason for accident was that the other car was unable to control or to  make a smooth left turn.

She said,

“The vehicles collided causing the autonomous vehicle to roll onto it’s side. There were no serious injuries.”

Here we would mention that the Uber self-driving vehicles always have a driver who can take control of the situation at any moment.

Montenegro said,

“It was uncertain whether the Uber driver was controlling the vehicle at the time of the collision.”

After the accident all the self driving vehicles by Uber vanished from the roads or Arizona.

Haunted or invaded, what so ever it can be called but for some time now the time for Uber is not good. The news is not in the favor of Uber. Including disclosures about a culture of sexism, cut-throat workplace tactics and covert use of law enforcement-evading software the Uber has been in serious issues since months.

Over the months the company is receiving lots of resigning letters by employees  including the president Jeff Jones.

According to the advocates of self-driving car,

” They can cut down on deadly traffic accidents by eliminating human error.”

It is not one of its kind. Before this, In May last year, in Florida a truck and a speeding Tesla that was on autopilot hit each other and resulted in fatality.

An investigation was carried out but as a result nothing was found against the autopilot system.

Will the investigation find something against Uber this time? Lets wait and watch.

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After seeing the pathetic condition of public transport many new ride hailing services have sprung up across Pakistan.

Limofied is one of the youngest ride-hailing services which has recently stepped in the business and was launched for the first time on Lahore.

Now it expands its ride-hailing business to Faisalabad.

They claim to be more comforting, convenient and cheap. They claim to give you a better experience of ride hailing. That’s why their customer care is open 24/7.

The services will be same as the services in Lahore but it will include two new services like MOTOTaxi (Motorcycle Taxi) and Rickshaw.

Limofied app is now allowing students to use MOTOTaxi service to go to colleges and universities on low cost.

Rates of new services are as follows:

MOTO Taxi:

• Base Fare: 50
• Per Km: 5
• Per Min: 1
• Minimum Fare: 70

Rickshaw:

• Base Fare: 50
• Per Km: 15
• Per Min: 1
• Minimum: 70

App is available on both android and apple users. If you are citizens of Faisalabad or Lahore you can avail this  ride-hailing service now.

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Honda Motor Co invested in Southeast Asian cab service called Grab. It was included as part of a deal to collaborate on its motorbike-hailing service, in the latest auto industry tie-up of its type.

The two companies aim to provide better ride hailing services and driver education programs.

Though the amount of payment was not been disclosed yet but the deal has been announced.

Grab provides services like taxi and motorbike-hailing, car-pooling, delivery and mobile payments.

Grab, the biggest rival to ride-sharing service Uber Technologies Inc in Southeast Asia, raised $750 million in a funding round in September. A source who knows the matter said the round valued Grab at more than $3 billion.

Grab also announced that Japanese financial services company “Tokyo Century Corp” had made a strategic investment in the company for an undisclosed amount.

This is surely going to be one of the biggest investments of the year in any ride-hailing service.

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