Shanghai orders Didi to remove fare hike function

Shanghai Municipal Transportation Commission held an urgent meeting with the leading ride-hailing company Didi Chuxing on Tuesday, urging the platform to eliminate the price-hiking function within two days.

Didi said during the meeting that they will delete the price-hiking module in the application, according to the commission's requirement. The company published a note on Monday, saying that they have temporarily eliminated the function of "suggested price hiking". In that function, a window would pop out when the user opened the app, asking the user if he would like to pay extra money for a ride.

The commission required Didi to delete another function of a "dispatching fee paid by passengers out of their own will". In this way, the possibility of paying extra money for a ride would be completely eliminated in Shanghai.