Uber has been looking back on 2016 with a statistical overview of how people have used the ride-sharing service this year. Here’s a quick round-up of relevant numbers for Malaysia, as disclosed via Year With Uber 2016.
The transportation network operator (TNO) said that local rides covered a total of 128,000,005 km of travel distance. In Kuala Lumpur, for a city that stretches 30 km East to West, riders effectively went the heady equivalent of 3,000 times around the globe.
In KL, an average ride lasts around 19 minutes, and the service is quite popular for late night outings, with 31% of riders taking a trip between 10 pm to 2 am. Elsewhere, it seems KL riders aren’t just content with using the ride-sharing service here – they’re an adventurous lot, also utilising Uber in 448 other cities.
As for the top destination locally, it’s Kuala Lumpur International Airport, and given the way it works, we’re thinking that should remain right at the top next year. The TNO also revealed it was very much tied to other arms of public transport – 24% of all rides in KL began or ended near a train station.
On a personal front, my contribution to the cause was tiny, with only 11 rides in 2016, a relatively small number compared to fellow colleague Danny Tan, who utilises the service a lot these days. My rides accounted for 257.68 km of distance covered (the equivalent of doing 51 laps on an F1 track, so Uber tells me), with the 10 am to 6 pm period being when the service was utilised the most.
The shortest trip, meanwhile, was 4.4 km and the longest, 76.57 km (no prizes for guessing as to which destination). Spent a lot of time in traffic, by all accounts, since my average ride time was 32 minutes. What about you? Did you spend a lot of time riding with Uber in 2016? Share your views with us in the comments section.
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they should include how many drivers were attacked by the samseng taxi drviers
I used to be a full-time Uber driver as well since last year, and yes, I used to get about RM6000+ per month (Gross income) by working more than 14 hours a day (Traveled more than 85k km in a year in Klang Valley alone). But decided to stopped working for them after their fare revision earlier this year and removal of Hourly Guarantee (Which is replaced by the useless ‘boost’) middle of the year.
The “new” Uber nowadays only benefits the riders and is very very bad to their drivers. Giving out those “RM5” promo codes so often only makes people lazier which results in them abusing the system. In the past, when people wants to go somewhere not very far away (Say a few hundred meters?), they will just move their lazy ass and walk. But nowadays, they’ll just request for an Uber, expect the driver to drive for 10 minutes to come all the way and fetch you for 500m.
Yes, you don’t need to pay a single cent thanks to the promo codes (Sometimes RM2 or RM3 if there’s no code) and saved you the trouble walking, but you just made that driver lost RM5 just by taking your trip, all thanks to your lazy fat ass.
I could only earn about RM4000 per month after they updated their policy, which is a significant drop from my previous earnings. Look around yourself, most of the drivers on the road these days are new drivers that has been driving for only a few days/weeks. You’ll hardly find any long-term loyal Uber drivers. Most of the drivers quit after 1-2 months driving with Uber. Even those older drivers are starting to stop working with them as well.
In a Rider’s point of view, yes Uber is all good; but in a driver’s point of view, boo Uber!
tldr…
Veri soon, uber drivers will demo & protes against uber!
So now you drive grab or quit this industry completely? We are curious to know
If rider use promo, uber will pay their drivers right?
Because discount or promo is uber’s expense. In other word, instead of rider paying to driver, uber will be paying to driver, of course after deducting 25%.
You don’t get the point bro
I got the point. Instead of walking, rider use promo code to go for short distance.
So? uber is profit making organisation. so they give promo to encourage people to start using their service. u want uber to give how much for promo? or what other method of marketing they should use to increase the number of riders? please suggest, u r the genius here.
the quote: “the driver to drive for 10 minutes to come all the way and fetch you for 500m”
that’s the point you didn’t get and i doubt you can understand it. so don’t worry, not expecting you to get it.
Working 14 hour daily, crayzy la you, are u from tanjung rambutan, yu are? Blue taksi is cicak this uber like crocodie.
Hi Pinky
I agreed with you, i am a part time Uber Driver for almost 1 year, since they launched the new fare system really make my income drop 40%, i am stop driving right now.
You starting to complain like a taxi driver.
what about statistics of how many drivers dropped out of Uber after the fare revision and incentive cut?
do u think uber will released d statistics?
mine was 800km. crazy! haha
It would be interesting to know how much money Uber lost in Malaysia this past year. Lots of articles out there showing how unsustainable their business is, I don’t think it’s any different in Malaysia.
Many MY pipu now sapot Californian taxi Dr Evil…
After reading some of the comments here & from the writer, it seems like the passengers are getting the best deal while the driver(uber) are getting the shorter side of the stick.
In the long run, the driver will leave the industries bcos it seems the monetary gain is not worth the hours you spend driving around especially in the Jam.
Looks like the moral of the story by Pinky is study hard to gain a degree, work on any given job including driving taxi & continue to study 4 your Master & then later study 2 get a PhD B4 U marry bcos U have all the time in the world when U are still single.
B4 U reach 30 yrs old, with a Phd, hopefully your head is not damaged yet, U land a job as a lecturer in a prestigious Uni & get yourself a girlfriend(which is not difficult), U can be a customer of uber instead of being a driver.
I think we all should thank Pinky for his experience & his sharing/opinion of being a Uber driver.
25% for uber
75% for car petrol, maintenance, risk of accident, empty calls, “hourly earnings”
and those uber xl need to maintain higher maintainance but being given no choice to just stick to xl rider. An Innova to drive one uber x rider in kl traffic jam at x’s rate? Rugi oooo…
hi everybody, yup. i agree with Pinky.
i just started 1 week ago, and i was thinking uber is absolutely leaning more to rider.
Sam on Dec 22, 2016 at 6:09 pm
25% for uber
75% (driver earnings) + for car petrol, maintenance, risk of accident, empty calls, “hourly earnings”
is MYTH
more likely the opposite. Too much rider think they are hiring a personal “driver”.
i’m not sure how you guys manage to drive 14 hours,
the 3rd day i tried to drive to the max i can, just after 7 hours. i almost cant feel my “little bro”…!!! my leg like giving up.
for the sake of Rm80++ minus gas price Rm35 ( driving with efficient as possible ).
This experience is better than anything i come across. now i value very much of anything i earn, even as low as RM 30(for less than 30 mins job)…
As much as I support the use of technology and ride sharing, I feel that Uber does not really contribute to our environment. People are becoming Uber drivers to make money. So this means they decide to drive around the city to find users. If Uber was about actual *ride sharing* meaning if I’m going from point A to B and you have a car and going from A to B also then that would the correct description. But instead it’s just causing more cars on the roads by allowing anybody to make money from taxiing people around. Just my two sen worth.
MAY BE I CAN START USING UBER IF IT ALREADY AVAILABLE FOR MY STATE 1 YEAR AGO