In recent years, online taxi has been the first choice of people's travel, and has also brought great convenience to people's travel. And the recent exposure of online car safety incidents has also made many people begin to question the safety of online car.

On September 20, 2018, the Supreme Judge's website released a judicial big data report on crimes committed during the process of online cab and cab services. The report shows that in the process of providing services, the rate of 10,000 people's cases of traditional cab drivers is 13 times higher than the rate of 10,000 people's cases of online taxi drivers.

In addition, the report shows that in 2017, the people's courts at all levels across the country at first instance concluded less than 20 cases in which the defendant was a network car driver and the crime was committed in the process of providing services, and the incidence rate per 10,000 people of network car drivers was 0.048, of which 77.78% of the cases were against passengers. In the same year, the people's courts at all levels across the country concluded more than 170 cases in which the defendants were traditional cab drivers and the crimes were committed in the course of providing services, and the incidence rate per 10,000 people for traditional cab drivers was 0.627, of which 46.26% of the cases were against passengers.

Seeing such big data, online cab and cab in the end who is safer seems to have an answer, in the gradual popularity of online taxi today, everywhere basically online taxi and cab has been equally divided.

So, after eliminating the interference of the amount of data, we can draw a direct inference from the data: that is, within the time dimension of 2017, online cab is safer than cabs. 2018 data has not been released, but with the increase of safety measures for online taxi, there is a chance to evolve to the positive.

The report shows that the incidence of crime by traditional cab drivers is 13 times higher than that of online cab drivers in the course of an online ride versus a traditional cab service.

The Supreme Court's conclusions differ significantly from the impression we usually get through the mass media. The difference exists because scandals involving tech companies are far more "newsworthy" to the media than scandals involving traditional cab companies, and DDT killings get far more publicity than deaths involving cabs.

So why do many people think cabs are safer?

Different mediums of communication

Taxi and cab are supposed to be a collision of the new and the traditional. Cab as a kind of Internet organization, its own has the gene of the Internet, then the Internet's ease of use, wide-ranging is inherently attached to the cab, while the cab is a kind of traditional industry, for everyone, cab accidents are just routine events, maybe the local media will report on it, but it is very difficult to attract the attention of the whole network.

Traditional cabs have become a habit

Taxis have been around for nearly a century, and many people are used to the idea that something with a long history is more reliable. And taxis, which are local businesses with a government background, are more likely to win the public's trust.

Strength of management system constraints

The impression is that cabs seem to be managed more formally than cab drivers. With the rapid development of online taxis, their management and regulation is imperfect and lacks binding force relative to the speed of development of online taxis. However, online car and cab should not use the same regulatory means, cab strictly control the audit, at the expense of efficiency, but still failed to achieve better results. Taxi does not seem to have the same audit and training mechanism as cabs, but it can be tracked through the data to obtain more effective management control results.

All in all, compared with the traditional yangzhu cab, the network car is still a little safe, but at the same time, we must also recognize that, regardless of the closed environment, there is no guarantee that the crime will not occur, in general, it is compared with traditional cabs, the security of the security of a greater advantage. However, absolute safety does not exist, and for each of us ordinary people, focusing on self-protection is more important than anything else.