Figure of the day:
1 000 000 000
trips made by the users of Yandex.Taxi.
The Yandex company boasted of achieving great milestone in Yandex.Taxi. Service was seven years old and just in time for seven years, the number of trips in the entire history of Yandex.Taxi reached one billion.
Yandex.Taxi launched on 26 October 2011. A billion trips were made in a few weeks to seven years, but announced about it just now, deciding to save the announcement to the day of birth.
28 Sep 2018 exactly at 19 hours 48 minutes 34 seconds Moscow time, the number of trips in the entire history of the platform Yandex.Taxi exceeded one billion.
Interestingly, Yandex.Taxi 43 user-hero of the day. Exactly trips ended at this moment — 19:48:34. This happened in 23 cities in eight countries.
Yandex also shared and other statistics. In Yandex.Taxi now 36 million users and more than 900 thousand drivers in the taxi companies-partner.