Last week, Drag Muscus went to Shanghai to visit relatives and friends. In order to travel convenient, I chose to get online.

The impression of online ride still stayed a few years ago.At that time, it was the peak of competition for the online car rental platform. The merchant fought a subsidy battle. The driver easily entered 10,000 a month (RMB, the same below, about S $ 1900)., Enjoy high -quality services, all the best.

But in just a few days in the Shanghai Internet car experience, it was only surprised that the Chinese online car rental ecosystem had changed.

Pay attention to Chinese news every day, and it is no stranger to "drivers trapped in the online car."The online car driver works for 16 hours a day, exchanges 500 yuan in 15 hours, grab 10 passengers in 200 drivers, etc., and often see the newspapers.

But when I opened the door and a smell came, I had a more specific understanding of the meaning of this "sleepy".

A recent survey in China shows that the "odor in the car" is the top 10 uncivilized behaviors of the car."Rating is getting more and more stinky" has also become a hot topic for Chinese netizens.

But behind this odor, is it just uncivilized behavior?

The Chinese economy has slowed significantly in recent years. Many middle -aged people over 35 years old face the pressure of unemployment and treat the "driving online car" as the retreat of life. It is believed that the threshold for this line is low. Although it is hard, at least make money.

But the reality is that this retreat has become increasingly narrow.Due to the influx of the driver, since 2022, more than a dozen cities in China have issued early warning: the demand for online car rental is close to saturation, and the public must make rational choices.Since last year, many cities have shown that super 70 % of drivers have received less than 10 single orders averaged.

The imbalance between supply and demand means greater work load and less income for drivers.On the one hand, many drivers have to rack their brains and grab their orders in the case of more monks and less porridge, and on the other hand, they must try to reduce expenses.

According to Chinese media reports, there are online car drivers that open their eyes every day. The first thing to think is to make money.Under the heavy burden of life, in order to save the rent, it is also convenient for grabbing orders at any time. Some drivers simply eat and sleep in cars with small spaces.

It can be seen that the "stink" of online car rental is not only a smell, but also not only a behavior, but also the helplessness and tranquility of the online car driver facing the pressure of survival.

Even if you are not living in the car, with my observation in Shanghai, the huge economic pressure has made many online car drivers breathless, causing them to be angry and scolded.

In this case, basic road traffic safety is difficult to ensure. How to expect them to have leisure and spare power to keep the car's hygiene and ensure that there is no odor?

Shanghai is said to be a city that can still break 10,000 in cities in a few months, but also stopped registration last year and no longer increased new cars.If the driver wants to enter the industry, he must pass the leasing company.This also means that they make money by the platform and the car rental company.

Dipping off the layers, new drivers still join.A driver from Henan told me that he also knew that the market was not good now, but if he did not make money in Shanghai, it would be more difficult to make other places.

The emergence of

Chinese online car rental has inject more vitality into the market economy.It breaks the monopoly of the traditional taxi industry, reduces passenger travel costs, and creates new employment opportunities.

But when it was moved, it was still hard to drive the car, but it was no longer a high -paying industry.Are those drivers who regard it as a retreat, are they still willing to hold this straw?Or do they really have other straws to hold?