Legal Issues Study On The Supervision Of Ride-sharing In China

Technological innovations are quickly re-shaping our world and even changing the way we travel from place to place.Although the concept of “ride-sharing” only just emerged in 2010,it has rapidly gained popularity and expanded across the globe,offering a new way to get around major cities via a mobile application that instantly links drivers and passengers through the phone's GPS system.The basic idea of ride-sharing is that the right of use prevails the right of ownership,which means that passengers can rent one or several “seats” of other people's car so as to save the cost of buying a car or taking a taxi.As a new-born business model,ride-sharing poses challenge to the policy-makers.This article firstly introduces the key features of the ride-sharing business model and then define the concept of ride-sharing by comparing it with other types of transportation such as taxi.What's more,this article analyze the problems with the existing regulatory system and then propose the possible answers to the problem by learning from the experience of other countries.The first chapter of the article introduces the origin and development of ride-sharing and compares it with other modes of transport so as to emphasize its key features.In addition,the pros and cons of ride-sharing are also mentioned in this part.The second chapter introduces the existing regulatory policies of ride-sharing in China and also other countries.By comparing different modes of regulatory regime,the chapter tries to fill the regulatory gaps between our country and other countries with more advanced legal regulatory regime regards ride-sharing.The third chapter finds out three main problems of the existing regulations in relation to ride-sharing,including the unreasonably strict admission standards of driver-partners,the vagueness of the legal relationship between the driver and the ride-sharing companies and the incompleteness of insurance policy regarding accidents during the period of ride-sharing.Based on the above chapters,Chapter four proposes the possible solution to the problems analyzed in the third chapter,based on the advanced experience of other countries which is introduced in the second chapter.Firstly,policy-makers should choose the right mode of regulation,making different rules for taxi industry and ride-sharing industry.In other words,regulations of the two industries should reflect the different features of them.Also,law-makers should clarify the standard of identifying the legal relationship between chauffeurs and companies of operating platform for ride-sharing services such as uber.Finally,policy-makers should improve the insurance policy for chauffeurs and insurance company should create a new kind of insurance for ride-sharing.