: AI-Driven EV Startup Is Helping 1 Lakh+ Metro Commuters Get Home For Just Rs 18 #IndiaNEWS #Electric Vehicles While the metro rail system has significantly enhanced the public transportation system

AI-Driven EV Startup Is Helping 1 Lakh+ Metro Commuters Get Home For Just Rs 18 #IndiaNEWS #Electric Vehicles
While the metro rail system has significantly enhanced the public transportation system in many big Indian cities, reaching the station is a problem commuters are still struggling with.
While taxi drivers often cancel rides since they don’t want to cover such a minimal distance, conventional auto rickshaws either don’t come to the desired destination or demand a fare higher than stated on their meter.
This is a problem that Girish Nagpal, a south Bengaluru-based entrepreneur, was facing while using the Namma Metro service from the JP Nagar station to his office in the Central Business District (CBD) area. Unsurprisingly, Girish’s long time friend and fellow Silicon Valley-based entrepreneur Kaaman Agarwal also faced a similar problem while using the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) to reach the city of San Francisco.
Wondering whether this was a problem that only they faced, Girish and Kaaman say they spoke to over 400 metro commuters in India and the US. This helped the duo realise that this issue was more common than they thought.
“We met last year sometime around January and found a common problem – lack of a solution to get to the metro station during peak hours, both in India as well as the US. This is where the idea of MetroRide was born,�? says Girish, in a conversation with The Better India.
MetroRides electric three-wheelers outside a metro station in Bengaluru
Launched earlier this year, MetroRide, a Bengaluru-based artificial intelligence (AI)-driven electric mobility platform, is a first and last mile ride hauling service that connects you from metro stations to high frequency destinations. It operates through an AI-powered cloud-based application to provide “100 per cent green (electric vehicle) travel solutions�? to its customers.
“MetroRide focuses on daily commuters who take the metro train to get to work, school, or college. We are the only 100% electric first and last mile mobility platform that uses AI to make rides for our commuters faster, cheaper and safer. We have developed a proprietary AI engine called VIKI. Every process in our business is driven by VIKI. From booking a ride using an AI-enabled Chatbot to identifying the most efficient driving route, matchmaking a woman rider with a woman driver, human detection inside the vehicle, and avoiding fraudulent rides, everything is executed using VIKI,�? says Kaaman.
The startup uses electric three-wheelers with a capacity to seat two passengers and a partition to ensure adequate distance to ferry passengers to and from the metro station. Soon, they will start a similar service in the United States with electric cars.
“We cater to a 5 km radius from the metro station and our average fare in Bengaluru is Rs 18.

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