Tired of trying to scour and secure transportation back to the hometown during festive seasons? Buses and trains not cutting it for you? Well, the introduction of a new ride-sharing service may be just the thing, then. It’s called Droupr, and it’s a local web-based, mobile-friendly service for Malaysians to share a ride together with someone driving a car and heading to the same destination.
Pairing together car owners about to make the journey to a specific location with passengers who are also looking to head to the same place, Droupr is essentially a car-pooling resource, with everyone sharing the cost of travel.
The system – which aims to give everyone a community-based, safe travelling experience – matches the available seats in cars with a real search engine, and its developers say it has been engineered to create a secure, trust-based community with declared identities and full member profiles.
Here’s how it works. Users register in the system using their real name with a valid e-mail address and phone number. To ensure passengers safety, the system offers members the option to include their Identity Card and house address verification.
Members then proceed to key in details of where they want to go and when, and will get a list of drivers heading to the same destination, with their journey history and a price – which is a fraction of a ticket on public transport. The system will notify of the charge for the journey so that there are no overcharging issues.
A trip with Droupr allows the driver to offset their costs but not make a profit. Each passenger simply makes a fair contribution for his/her seat, and the driver covers the fuel and toll costs.
For example, a car with a full load of travellers heading from KL to George Town will only cost each passenger on a Droupr trip somewhere between RM30 to RM45, the cost being to cover travelling expenses. Car owners keep 100% of the contributions from their passengers. Droupr says it only charges a small booking fee from passengers to cover overhead costs.
Car owners will be able to set their own terms and preferences. One unique feature the system offers is the ability for members to choose “Ladies Only” for cars where both the drivers and passengers are female.
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Are we going to start seeing Transnasional/PLUSLINER/CEPAT buses blockading the North_south highway in protest? Perhaps KTM ETS trains blocking the railways until SPAD bans droupr?
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That is how Malaysia works. this is because, the UMNO cronies own all the stage busses, intercity bus companies and teksi companies.
If it affects their income, they will start becoming like the gangster teksi guys in KL. Even polis dare not touch the gangster teksi guys cause all their licences are owned by big UMNO kingpins.
Everytime they protest and cause massive jams for 5 to 6 hours, polis go to them gently and say, “abang abang, tolong jangan block jalan ini. Mintak ampun abang abang pemandu teksi, tolong sudi dan dipelawa lalu”
great for the carpoor, but make Taxi guys marah neah
Hope this is safe!
But how to tell passengers not to fart, dig their nose, spit, talk on the phone, break things etc?
Many things could go wrong…
I will make sure they will fart first before coming into the car. Even if I have to make them stand outside the car by 40 minutes. I will wait. They have to prove it with the noise.
Use a brand name that is catchy and easy to pronounce la. So, is it “Drooper”or “drauper”?
Fesbuk nama macam muka mau kasi penumbuk but nobody care.
Dropout
so i sign up and tried offer my ride – cyberjaya/SEL to segamat/JOH. the ‘cost’ droupr was offering is rm18 per person (paid via droupr…).
the stopovers i put was alor gajah/MEL(RM2), ayer keroh/MEL(RM4) and tangkak/JOH (RM9).
as far as cost is concerned, it is attractive indeed for the passenger… and if i got a fully loaded car (3 passengers in this case), that really has cover my toll and petrol.
so it really is about whether you want company in your journey.
droupr clearly state they aren’t targeting for driver looking for profit (because the ‘profit’ is for them lar…hahaa..).
Interesting idea but seriously such a horrid name. It just reminds me of erectile dysfunction.
gr8 idea towards democratization of transport.no more having to deal with ticket pimps out to suck blood from desperate travelers during peak holiday season.
safety of all should be given priority. suggest providing safety star rating for type of cars being used as well as drivers driving experience.
Najib = liberalisation
Tun M = nationalisation
U make the choice.
It doesn’t work
Previously Tripda , spend alot money for marketing in Malaysia , but end up fail , Tripda closed down last few months .
same concept .
Same concept as Lyft?