Taxi software War is dying, peer-to-peer car war ignited

In May this year, a car rental announced the industry's first 5 million dollar angel financing; in June, the PP car rental announced the acquisition of Sequoia Capital of the 10 million U.S. dollar venture, July 30, a carpool net again won 30 million yuan wind; August, the bump rental car successfully won Tens Angel investment. Under the role of Peer-to-peer as the main form of shared economy, peer-to-peer car rental has overshadowed other emerging industries.

In fact, the wind in the light exposure of the peer-to-peer car rental, there are two "shadow", a Shadow is "Everyone Express", Peer-to-peer rental car and everyone express mode is simply the same, make full use of idle resources, and then integrated, once "everyone for me, I for everyone" slogan is shocking, now, everyone express the way out? Because of the impact of the express policy, has been stopped, the future direction of development is unknown. Another shadow is a taxi software, the original, easy to use the car, quick taxi, etc. in order to activate the idle commercial vehicle market, also made a commercial vehicle booking, but was "black car" stir the bureau, the market is gone.

In a peer-to-peer rental car, both shadows are more or less reflected. On the evening of August 12, the Beijing Municipal Transportation Committee issued a "on the prohibition of Car rental enterprises for illegal operation to facilitate" notice, expressly prohibit the use of private cars or other non-leasing enterprises vehicles for car rental operations. Notice issued not long, pp car to stand up for their own name, eager to show that the new PP car rental is not in the management scope of this notice. Perhaps this is a sign that peer-to-peer rental cars are drifting off the edge of policy. Another example, the taxi software encountered the "black cars" problem, strictly speaking, private cars can be regarded as "black car", and the constraints of Peer-to-peer car rental are not only these, but also include the user's trust problems, accidents and disputes when the solution, which have become an obstacle to the development of the industry's instability factors.

So why is a peer-to-peer car with an unstable factor always favored by a cautious venture? The reason may be two points, one is the popularity of mobile payment depends on O2O, and car service is currently the most mature O2O mode; second, the United States has a pioneer, and the risk of cloning is not high, the domestic still in the initial stage, there is a crash possibility.

It is undeniable that peer-to-peer rental car holding three major advantages: light capital, high efficiency and profitability, this is the traditional car rental industry unmatched. But the Peer-to-peer rental car is to become a pioneer or become martyrs, I think if the industry at the beginning of the development can not be a number of constraints to straighten out the solution, then, even if the future is optimistic, will not escape the fate of the inevitable.