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On December 8, 2015, Beijing headquarters were besieged by a large number of taxis and taxi drivers complained to the media that drop-and-hit taxi software encouraged private cars to operate in the form of 'special cars' and damaged the market order. Damage to the interests of taxi drivers. On December 10, 2017, just two months of ticketing on-line taxi business issued a public statement saying taxi drivers were threatened with dropping official customer service calls due to the installation of ticketing App, The two sides broke out a few rounds of war. In a matter of two years, the drops have changed from the monopoly industry taxi challengers and innovators at that time into the leader of the taxi industry today. At the same time, it has expanded its business to include taxi, limousine, express and carpooling , Along the windmills, minibuses, luxury cars, on behalf of driving, buses, car rental, used cars, shared bicycles and other fields, and large investment in the world's top seven mobile travel platform, from Brazil's 99 to Ola in India to South Africa, Taxify in Europe, Careem in the Middle East, Grab in Southeast Asia, and Uber and Lyft in the United States. Now the drop is already a tentacle reaching the world's monster, but its founder Cheng Wei still drops will be regarded as a start-up company rather than the giant, 'we are a very crisis-proof company, the trickle down all the life and death Today, we do not feel so-called security, no business is safe, in such an era of rapid change. Cheng Wei anxiety is necessary, the drop has merged with the two rivals, fast and Uber China, but the breadth of repeated expansion determines that it will always encounter new rivals. Mo worship, tick, the first steam, the United States Mission Seems to be a single weak enemy threat is limited, but now Baotuan formed an alliance, is from the rapid traffic, taxi, car and other core business start, the war burned to timeshare, unmanned, etc. Drips are weak or have yet to gain the lead in the field.  The drop in addition to the field of defense in the field of travel itself, and even came out is the water test take-away, ticketing, retail and other new business, to their opponents to their own way to rule their people's body. This battle with the counterattack? Drip is currently doing and rumors to do business Anti-drip Union February 2017, the US App Mission quietly appeared in a 'taxi' entrance, then the United States Mission confirmed that it did launch the 'US mission taxi' business, is in Nanjing trial operation, and has been applying for a license plate. Although the United States delegation deliberately low profile, has not been officially disclosed taxi business progress, but still touched the sensitive nerve .In March, drops began in Nanjing, Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou and other cities trial operation name For the 'enjoyment' between the express train and the car between the new product. However, the U.S. delegation reiterated its determination in the field of travel did not stop there. In early November, the U.S. delegation re-started the time-sharing car rental operation and pilot operation in Chengdu. In December, the U.S. delegation commented on the newly established Travel Division, One of the business. Then came the news on the market drop drops test take-out, ticketing, new retail and other areas of the United States sniper comment. Let the headache drops more than one commentary Comments. At present, the drop of the first largest shareholder ofo, while the largest competitor ofo's motorcycle ride is carried out in the field of network about vertical and horizontal. In September this year, the motorbike and the first car about to reach a strategic cooperation, visit the App add netizens car access, users do not need to switch the App to call the first car about the car, and open payment. In Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Wuhan and other cities across the country landing a month later, riding a bicycle and pulled a tick carpool, in the App add carpool entrance. In fact, in June of this year, Worship registered Wuni Travel Service Co., Ltd., with a registered capital of 50 million Yuan, while in Wuni Company, it has independently provided travel service department which is responsible for network business. In November, the travel service department further expanded its business to the field of new energy shared vehicles. It co-launched the sharing of automotive products with Guizhou Xinte Electric Vehicles and named it MOCAR Mocha. Commenting on the U.S. mission and riding two bicycles, the two rivals all made their efforts in the field of time-sharing leasing, which also triggered a drop of vigilance. Following the launch of the "short-term rental" rental business in August this year, Cheng Wei at Wuzhen World Internet When interviewed by Sina Science and Technology, the conference said that the drops will be devoted to the field of time-sharing leasing next. 'We will invest a great deal of resources not less than 1 billion capital.' In addition to the United States Mission Review and worship of these two new rivals, some old rivals are quietly attacking the drop base camp. Among the 25 million tickets completed daily by Dichotillo, about a significant proportion of taxis are taxi operators. In the months of August and October 2017, VASCO and Tick Carpool announced their caravans about ticketing business. Tick-carpool then publicly declared When ticking taxi business in Shenzhen, six taxi drivers were threatened with dropping official customer service calls and were asked to choose one. However, the ticker side pointed out that some media reports previously reported that when the U.S. mission taxi was confronted with a driver being asked to choose a second option when expanding the market in Nanjing, the two sides ended their talks without words. Drip investment layout overseas How to break the internationalization? After the merger with Uber China in August 2016, it has annexed the two competitors' drops and thought that the overall situation of the domestic car market has been fixed, and when the end of the year began to propose a strategy of international expansion At the annual meeting of 2017 , Cheng Wei announced the drop in 2017 five key words, the internationalization is one of them. In fact, during the war with Uber China, Drip took control of Uber's rivals by investing in overseas markets, including GrabTaxi in Southeast Asia, Ola in India and Lyft in the US, before investing in Brazil 99, Taxify in South Africa and Europe, and Careem in the Middle East. In February this year, drop drops in the new round of restructuring announced the establishment of a new international business unit, responsible for the strategic investment vice president Zhu Jingshi responsible for the drop, a substantial global business start. 'The next phase of the drop Internationalization will not, as in the previous phase, increase capital investment through the integration of Uyghur, and we will have elite troops to set up an expeditionary force to Brazil, Japan, Korea and Europe, Cheng said at the time. However, the internationalization is also facing the embarrassment of how to get along with Uber. Prior to the merger of UBI with Uber China, UBI and Uber Global hold shares with each other to become minority shareholders of the other Uber Globally holds 5.89% of the equity of Didi, equivalent to 17.7% of the economic interest. Founder and Chairman Cheng Wei joined the Uber global board of directors, Uber founder Karen Nick also joined the drip board. In the process of dropping into the overseas market, Uber can be described as an enemy as well as a competitor with Uber, as the drop-in overseas travel enterprises itself compete with Uber. After investing US $ 100 million in taxi applications in the United States in 2015, the two sides announced the opening of their products in April 2016 and launched the 'drop overseas' program. Chinese tourists in the United States can make calls to the Lyft platform by drop-dropping App and can Use Alipay and WeChat to pay the taxi fare. However, according to media reports, in November this year, including Las Vegas, California, New York and many other American cities can no longer use the drop call service.Drip stakeholders said in an interview, the drop and Lyft both App After the upgrade, we have suspended the opening service. 'If users have cross-border travel needs, we encourage users to download partners using the App.' The person did not specifically explain why the two products stop getting through, and Cheng Wei in Wuzhen, Sina Technology said the policy is due to. In addition, foreign media reports recently, drop plans to enter the Mexican market next year.Although the drop before Brazil will be the first stop of internationalization, but did not send cars outside the region, and Mexico may be Its first international operator, sources said in the first quarter of next year, drop drops will launch a smartphone app in Mexico to recruit local drivers to the platform. Cheng Wei told SINA that it will be a breakthrough year for internationalization by 2018. This may mean that its previously announced roster of elite troops to set up an expeditionary force will be further accelerated, but the relationship with Uber and its competitors Handling drops is still a test. Meanwhile, during the war with Uber China, Cheng Wei described the difficulties encountered by the Uber global model: 'There are local traffic conditions in Southeast Asia, India, Europe, Japan and South Korea, how to integrate, and how and policies Communication, how could it be a drop or a U.S. company doing it globally? And when the object from Uber replaced by drops, how drops break? Concerning the future: unmanned melee Cheng Wei mentioned in the interview to foreign media at the end of 2016 that Drip is developing drone technology.For drip drops, it is an advantage to have a huge amount of data and natural application scenarios, but no driver's talent and capital investment are no doubt huge. In February this year, the structure adjustment, the drop set up a new wisdom traffic FT team.In March, drop drops also announced the establishment of drop in the United States Silicon Valley Institute to attract top scientists, will focus on the development of big data security and smart driving The two core areas attract former Uber security expert Charlie Miller, who is responsible for smart driving safety programs. In November of this year, the American Institute of Dripping further expanded to move to a new office in Mountain View, Silicon Valley. This 360-million-square-foot (3,340-square-meter) standalone building will house at least 200 employees in the future. Cheng Wei said to Sina Technology, driverless is the next step in this drop in May this year, dropping over 5.5 billion US dollars to complete a new round of financing, one of the round of financing is to invest in technology research and development. However, as of now, the drop has not yet announced the relevant progress in driverless. The drop of competitors are not idle. In October this year, First Automobile Co., Ltd. reached a strategic cooperation with Baidu to jointly explore innovative modes of sharing autonomous vehicles. Specifically, both parties will select regional locations in several cities by 2018 to launch unmanned networks About the experience of the car, will also be opened in the net about the car experience of the autopilot L3, reduce the load on the driver 'wait until the conditions are ripe, mid-year we have a specific landing plan.' . In November, the first steaming car completed B + round 700 million financing, Baidu, Wei to capital, etc. In addition to the capital, the first steam about cars have Baidu's driverless technology, Wei to the car's electric car to help Shang Guobin, director of Baidu's Intelligent Driving Group, said frankly that although the current drop is in a monopoly position, it does not mean that the market has come to a foregone conclusion. The future of mobile travel will be smart travel, driverless and electric vehicles Development will subvert the current network of car business model. In addition to the first steam about the car, the UCAR chairman and CEO Lu Zhengyao revealed at a strategic conference recently that in the future, Divine will use big data and scenarios as a starting point, through independent research and development, investment, cooperation, etc. depth Involved in pilotless. Tao Yun Capital Capital CEO also recently said that the future will be easy to set up artificial intelligence research and development team, cut into the field of driverless and smart travel. 'Driverless investment will be effective in the medium to long term and the competition will be fiercer. The most important thing is that there is a lot of investment in R & D and a lot of mobile phone operating systems in China, but there are not many that can survive.' Cheng Wei said Only two people will eventually survive in the field of man driving, and he hopes the drop will be one of them.
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