Sony becomes Uber’s newest rival in Japan
Uber’s fledgling cab-hailing service in Japan has a new competitor, and it’s not by one of its usual rivals.
It’s called S.Ride, and it’s a taxi-hailing app created by Sony in partnership with not one, but five Japanese taxi companies.
Since the types of ride-hailing services you’re probably used to are banned in the country, companies like Uber that want a piece of the Japanese economy
— especially since the Tokyo Olympics are coming up — are compromising and teaming up with taxi providers.
https://www.engadget.com/2019/04/16/sony-s-ride-taxi-hailing-service-tokyo/