Car hailing company must use technology to guarantee safety

A DRIVER EMPLOYED BY DIDI, the largest car hailing company in China, has confessed to raping and murdering a female customer on Saturday in Wenzhou, East China's Zhejiang province. Three months ago, an air stewardess was raped and murdered by a car hailing driver, who had registered the car with Didi under his father's name, in Zhengzhou, Central China's Henan province. Qianjiang Evening comments:

That the two victims had both reported the threats they faced to Didi's customer services before the drivers killed them speaks volumes of the fatal loopholes in the company's management.

It is too early to sentence the whole car hailing industry to death, as it can be predicted that illegal and unlicensed private cars would soon fill in the vacancy left by the car hailing companies after their exit, which would pose even greater safety risks.