Online cab aggregator Uber, which launched operations in Sri Lanka today, has put a pause on its uberAUTO service, reports Quartz. The company had not launched uberAUTO in any other Indian city, after its launch in April this year in Delhi. The report added that the service, was shut down two weeks ago. Uber confirmed this to MediaNama and issued the same statement Quartz carried, “...We are temporarily removing this product to solve specific problems that need to be resolved to help it scale.” Our questions about the number of autos on the platform and the reason for its pause were unanswered. A WSJ report cited a Uber spokesperson as saying that, “It was a temporary experiment which has now ended,” contradictingly stating that the company had plans to re-introduce the service, albeit without a timeline. Uber accepts credit cards globally and had made an exception for India offering users to pay for auto rides by cash. It later extended this option to its cab services, adding debit card payments, after a pilot in Hyderabad. We also enquired about the Uber intercity service which launched in May, taking passengers from Pune to Mumbai and vice versa, which has possibly shut down as well, since we’ve not seen the option on the app for a week or more. The company’s spokesperson said that they would get back to us on this query. Interestingly, Uber has crunched some numbers into a chart of intercity Uber riders in India and their completed trips.…
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