When going home during the Spring Festival, would you choose to carpool or take the train?

Is the price of the car cheap? The car owner, Mr. Wang, owns a Jetta. This year he posted his carpooling information on the website and was able to take two fellow residents home. The entire expressway from Shenyang to Tangshan is about 546.4 kilometers. The cost last year was about 340 yuan for gas and 235 yuan for road tolls. “I choose carpooling mainly because the way home is too far and I’m bored alone. I can find a few fellow villagers to chat with and the driving will not be so tiring. It can not only share the cost but also bring convenience to the fellow villagers. Spring Festival home ticket It is too difficult to buy train tickets and bus tickets. "

Cost comparison: the total cost of carpooling is nearly 600 yuan, which is 200 yuan per person for three people; taking the train from Shenyang to Tangshan costs 78 yuan for a hard seat. Yuan/person, hard sleeper is 160 Yuan/person and takes 7 hours; long-distance bus sleeper fare is 165 Yuan/person.

But then again, if you carry a lot of luggage and take a bus or train, you will need to use other means of transportation to get home. Calculated this way, if a few friends carpool together, the price is cost-effective. What's more, although the price of carpooling is not advantageous, train tickets and bus tickets are basically free now, and most of the prices on carpooling websites are the prices published by the car owners themselves, which can be negotiated.

It is not easy to make insurance claims if a carpooling accident occurs

Although carpooling brings certain conveniences, safety issues are more important, and the carpooling community seems to have ignored this issue.

When combing through ride-sharing news, they often highlight the convenience of price and time, claiming that “the charge is not high, just earn a gas dollar” and “get home on the same day.” However, there is a lack of proper requirements on safety and risk issues: in addition to simply requiring a driver's license and strictly prohibiting smoking in the car, the publisher rarely touches on issues such as the responsibilities and risks of carpooling and the security inspection of the vehicle itself. There is no risk agreement signed in advance.

Many carpoolers want to sign a rideshare agreement, but don’t know how to start. In this regard, lawyer Li Liwei said that in addition to the ride-sharing price that both parties are concerned about, both parties should write their respective basic information into the agreement. Before carpooling, carefully check the identity of the other party and write down phone number, address, occupation and other information.

Although it is supported by the transportation department, carpooling still has certain safety risks. Since the car owners’ vehicles are private cars and insured, they can provide paid operating services during the carpooling process and have not negotiated with the insurance company to change the use of the vehicle. The nature is agreed upon and the nature of use is suspected to have changed. Therefore, once a traffic accident occurs, disputes may easily arise in the settlement of claims.

So carpooling gives priority to regular platforms

Ms. Li, a Henan native who works in Quzhou, also plans to carpool home with others this year. She said that she had seen many fellow villagers unable to get tickets to go home, so she simply stopped trying and took a ride home instead. However, Ms. Li is still very careful when it comes to choosing rides. Although there are carpooling information on some local forums, QQ groups, and WeChat groups, and several people have agreed to go together and share the toll and gas expenses equally, Ms. Li feels that this is not safe or guaranteed.

"There is a certain risk in taking a stranger's car alone, so I will choose a vehicle operated by a regular platform. Even if the cost is higher, at least the safety will be more guaranteed." Ms. Li said.