Didi is the leading travel platform in China, founded by its CEO Cheng Wei in 2012, becoming a unicorn enterprise.
It was amazing to see how they are developing the intelligent transportation and the smart city concept. The use of technology in this company is shocking. Things such as facial recognition and interactive machine translation, are part of their day a day. More than half of their staff are data scientists and engineers. They use the data not only for R&D, but also for improving congestion, predict high traffic patterns, and optimize carpooling.
Didi manages 30 million rides a day. Just to make it a little more tangible the potential of this company, Apple Inc. is investing $1 billion US in Chines ride-sharing service Didi. With this volume of demand, Didi had to switch fast from cash to cashless.
One of the things that really interested me was the safety of their service, especially for women. Moreover the face recognition, they have the late-night service where male drivers cannot pick up female passengers.
Thank you Didi for the opportunity of taking me in your headquarters!
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