Ride-share apps such as Grab and Uber have made life easier for commuter although there are waiting times that some have to deal with. This can be blamed on the volume of people booking a ride although ride availability is also an issue.
It is technically a game of cat-and-mouse with ride-share drivers looking for customers at the appropriate area. Ideally, the life of a drive and the number of passengers he is able to service would depend on the alerts he gets. Logistics is a problem at times, especially during lean periods. So how does one remedy such a problem once it crops up?
Apparently, another app to figure out where a ride-share driver must be may help. Developer Ryan Green may have an answer to that concern with an app he calls Gridwise. This app was launched during the summer of 2017 and continues to expand. It aids drivers by telling them where they should be headed, giving them the best chance of picking up passengers and of course earnings, CNet said.
Green revealed that the app has helped drivers increase their earnings by as much as 39-percent. The app is available in four cities: Pittsburgh, Washington, Baltimore, and Chicago. With its continued success, it remains to be seen if the Gridwise app will be made available in the global stage. The only immediate plans so far are for New York, Boston and Philadelphia – hinting that this app is limited only to the United States region.
In other regions, drivers do have their share of problems. Especially during slow days, finding the right area to be in has become a problem. Some would situate themselves near high-traffic areas like malls and commercial areas where commuters are bound to be aplenty.
Seeing, however, the number of ride-share drivers available, there is still the waiting time in play, not to mention having to burn some fuel while waiting or roaming around. Also, there are cases where the point of destination may not return big bucks, a reason why some are apprehensive picking up passengers since they want to get higher revenue for their service.
The fact remains that a lot of improvements are still needed. In China, Didi Chuxing, known as the world’s largest ride-sharing company with the goal of building better journeys, continues to find ways to revolutionize transportation and automotive technology, Forbes said.
Now, they are bent on using added funding to improve their service using artificial intelligence and green initiatives. Didi has three artificial intelligence research centers, one in Silicon Valley and two in Beijing where research is being done on natural language processing, computer vision and deep learning – up and coming features that should take the ride-sharing world by storm and hopefully account for better travels.
