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. And thanks to everyone who rode or drove Uber on one of the 999,999,999 trips before this one. 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 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."