Cashless rides through Uber in Sri Lanka

World renowned taxi app giant, UBER has entered the Sri Lankan market to revolutionise taxi rides with a cashless payment method technology. The days of calling a cab and waiting for hours for it to arrive or stopping a tuk-tuk along the roadside without realising whether there are people in it or not and then spending more time finding another one, are no more with technology advanced so much and so forth where everything is available at the touch of a button. Also disputes between customer and driver to change cash will fade away with new technologies existing, where cash is not involved at all. A few months back when ‘PickMe’, a local mobile app to fetch a tuk or taxi for a ride was launched in Sri Lanka, most people called it the ‘Sri Lankan UBER’, believed to have copied the same concept as UBER. At the time, the Business Times contacted both PickMe and UBER, which at that time was not introduced to Sri Lanka, to find out the technology behind both apps and realised that they were not the same as believed by most people, but have different strategies and concepts. Read more on this story