Agreed, this is a project capable of disrupting transportation in Kenya, Africa and the rest of the developing world.

Non issue. You get the numbers, you determine the price of insurance. Granted, premiums on nipe lift will be higher than private use vehicles but lower than uber et al and matatus.

so how may private vehicle owners would be ready to pay extra on their premiums so that they may make that extra 50-100 bob a day (non-guaranteed in any event)? already enough motor vehicles are on third party coz comprehensive insurance is too much for them to handle. and terming it an non-issue is an even a bigger problem.

Lots of people are risking anyway and giving people paid for lifts even today. They will deal with insurance the way they deal with it now.

Expect lots of traffic police harassment especially on major highways eg Nairobi-Nakuru when it picks up.

I think boni needs an aggressive marketing campaign this festive season.

Ever hitched or given a lift to a stranger? Very uncomfortable experience!

Let me leave this here...


There is no law against carpooling, a Senior Prosecution Counsel has said.
Duncan Ondimu from the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution criticised a police directive requiring passengers travelling in private cars be related to the driver.
In a tweet directed to the National Police Service official page and IPOA, Ondimu said the Traffic Police commandant was "out of line on carpooling".
"We owe a duty to Kenyans and let them know carpooling ain't illegal. Article 50(2)(n) of the Constitution is very clear. You can't charge someone for a non-existent offence," Ondimu said on Saturday.
"You can't punish people who chose to reduce the cost of holiday by carpooling," adding there was nothing illegal in carrying non-relatives.
"What about intermarriage in families? Carpooling is not illegal," he added.
Commandant Jacinta Muthoni had directed that police to use identification cards to net private cars carrying passengers.
On Thursday, Amnesty International demanded
police withdraw the directive.
While agreeing that private cars should not operate as PSVs because they lack the authority to do so, Country Director Justus Nyangaya said the order
"makes no sense and has no basis in law".

LINK..
It's not Illegal for private cars to carry passangers

The way this discussion is going be like the way a form has to be signed before a patient undergoes an operation ..Is that allowed?

The law is always subject to interpretition and amendment. It always is in case of disruptive market forces.

Nipe lift is disruptive. Insurance companies will have to come with with a new product for nipe lift users.

The law will have to re-define meaning and boundaries of PSV. Laws are made to serve the people and do not act in vain.

Nothing disruptive about it..The initial idea behind Uber was like this Nipelift..As things stand now,nipelift minus fully complying with PSV is criminal