Actually adjusted its restrained speech so not the aggressive style with which his company just rolled up the taxi markets around the globe: However, it was the appearance of Uber-founder Travis Kalanick one of the highlights of the first day of the digital conference DLD.
The has the Burda publishing under the auspices by publisher Hubert Burda opened yesterday for now the eleventh time in Munich. Since its launch in 2005 – at that time in the Hotel Nymphenburg – the DLD has blossomed tremendously: The conference is the most important meeting place around digitization, startups and Internet in Germany
The more appropriate. that Kalanick with the head of one of the most hyped currently – but scandal-ridden company in the world gave his tryst at the DLD. Talking about the taxi opponent Uber. On the one hand Uber is a review of some 40 billion dollars as one of the most valuable non-listed companies in the world that captured the imagination of investors literally.
Why Uber is so controversial
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What’s Uber at all?
About started about four years ago in San Francisco as an alternative to taxis, which notoriously hard to get in the Californian city are. At first it was just about to offer a chauffeur service with top class car for some extra cash. Meanwhile Uber uses his mediation platform for services where individuals can take passengers with their own cars. Especially for such offers, the disputes ignite with taxi industry and authorities in different countries.
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How does Uber?
It is a smartphone app, as they are known by the taxi applications. The hourly rate is determined automatically, the customer sees the Uber-Cars nearby. The track is calculated by GPS, so the cars come from without taximeter. The payment process is omitted: It is simply loaded the deposited at the Uber credit card
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. What bothers the taxi driver?
The taxi business is everywhere subject to many rules. There are provisions for the technical inspection of vehicles, checking the health of drivers, special insurance and the obligation to carry. In addition, the size of the market on the award of licenses is limited. Thus, a taxi license in New York cost more than a million dollars. About bursts with his service in this unlearn web of rules and economic interests.
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How does Uber taxis customers abjagen?
In the original Chaufferdienst About Black’s arguments were mainly the convenience of a smartphone app, a fancy car and automatic billing. In the Mitfahrdiensten in private cars Uber is also cheaper than conventional taxis. How does the service cost UberPOP in Hamburg a euro per kilometer, or 25 cents per minute. According Hamburger tax rate you pay on the other hand each € 2.20 for the first four kilometers per 1.90 for the next five kilometers, 1.40 from 10 kilometers.
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What are German authorities to Uber
Authorities and State Governments the service skeptical. In Berlin and Hamburg, the authorities issued injunction against Uber. As allowed courts to the movements but for now the onward journey. In NRW, a spokesman for the Department of Transportation to Uber said: “According to the information is to journeys to an authorization, passenger transport.” Of any such approval, the Uber-drivers do not have but apparently. Therefore, the Transport Ministry warns of heavy fines.
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What is About the dispute with the taxi industry by?
There are plenty of lenders who believe in the uber-model. Most recently, the company was in the spring of $ 1.2 billion from investors. This excess was rated a total of exceptionally high at 17 billion dollars. The startup plans to use its platform that brings together ultimately supply and demand, for all possible areas. As a rewarding business for the future logistics services apply. In the US, you can also book ice cream truck and helicopter to Uber this. And since Google’s investment division put $ 260 million in excess in the past year, there is speculation about the possibility of robot taxis.
On the other hand Uber makes again and again with negative headlines talked about: about the fall of last year, when the drive service UberPOP was temporarily banned in Germany – and Uber-Germany boss Fabien Nest man defiantly announced to want to still continue: “Progress can not slow down.” Or, most recently in early January, when it became known that Uber has thinned out and analyzed the data of its customers for nocturnal amorous adventures
Little wonder that Kalanick with his performance at the DLD tried everything to move the image from the supposedly evil hyper-aggressive US startup a short distance back straight. The idea is to About a buddy and come to him in Paris. “That was at the beginning only a side project of us because my friends and I thus had an easy way to hand, move us,” said Kalanick in the loose conversational tone.
To then with numbers to substantiate how valuable his company now but for society, nay the whole planet is: So there are about a billion cars standing around unused for 96 percent worldwide. “We use cars extremely inefficient when everyone has their own car,” said Kalanick almost imploringly.
To be the song of the Share Economy to agree: The aim of Uber either, travel expenses to push so far that is simply not worth owning a car. This is good for cities and towns: “We want 2015 in Europe alone create 50,000 jobs and 200,000 cars banish from the streets,” promises Kalanick. But not enough, at the same time Uber, would thereby also improve the “carbon footprint” of the global car fleet thus reduce emissions of carbon dioxide
Kalanick, the do-gooders and idealist.? The many observers was certainly too much for the good. . “The speech after he 2015 is a candidate for several Nobel Prizes” scoffed Twitter users Marius Müller during his speech
The saw Alina Fichter apparently quite similar: interviewed journalist of the Bavarian Radio the uber-boss after his speech at the podium of the DLD. Did he like the time because Saul would soon rename Paul, so Fichters opening question. The course knew the mined terrain – and went out, not very credible, as not versed in the Bible: “Maybe in the middle names, but I do not know the story.”
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