Car hailing company must put customers' safety before profits

A 27-YEAR-OLD DIDI CHUXING DRIVER in Wenzhou, East China's Zhejiang province, has reportedly confessed to raping and murdering a 20-year-old woman who booked his car through the company's Hitch carpooling service. People's Daily comments:

Three months ago, an air stewardess was raped and murdered in Zhengzhou, Central China's Henan province, by the driver of a car registered with Didi under his father's name.

The company has to shoulder some of the responsibility for these two young women's deaths, as the victims both reported to the company's customer services that they felt threatened by their drivers. In both cases, the company failed to help the women.