What were the specific technical challenges of starting a ride-sharing service in China?
Replied byTravis Kalanick
Founder & CEO at Atoms
Niche: Technology
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Started: 2018
The infrastructure is entirely different. For example, China utilizes a different GPS mapping system than the West. If you want to understand how cars move through space and calculate routes accurately, you have to build your tracking around their local GPS framework. That is just one of a hundred things we had to rebuild.
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