Uber announced on Christmas Eve that it had made its billionth trip in a new milestone for the global ride-sharing service. The company said it was now operating more than 1 million cars and trucks around the world, with about half of those vehicles being self-driving cars. Marvin and Ara just made our day. Their £5 London uberX ride together on Christmas Eve from London Fields, Hackney to Hoxton in Ara's blue Honda Insight Hybrid was the billionth Uber trip…One billion. That's a whole lot of riders and drivers sharing the road... Certainly far more than we ever imagined when we got started in San Francisco five and a half years ago… For riding their way into our history books, we're putting one year's worth of free rides in rider Marvin's stocking and our driver-partner Ara will be taking a vacation on us to the Uber city of his choice."
Uber announced on Christmas Eve that it had made its billionth trip in a new milestone for the global ride-sharing service. The blog post states: "Marvin and Ara just made our day. Their £5 London uberX ride together on Christmas Eve from London Fields, Hackney to Hoxton in Ara's blue Honda Insight Hybrid was the billionth Uber trip…One billion. That's a whole lot of riders and drivers sharing the road...Certainly far more than we ever imagined when we got started in San Francisco five and a half years ago… For riding their way into our history books, we're putting one year's worth of free rides in rider Marvin's stocking and our driver-partner Ara will be taking a vacation on us to the Uber city of his choice."