Grab, why?

How I would drive to get home

Had to take Grab yesterday from an Icon City food court to get home. Car came fast, like 5 minutes, no issue there. Fare was RM11, time was around 1.30pm. Now normally if I drive myself, I’d just go straight into Chian Heng Kai Road, turn right into Song Ban Kheng, then keluar to Kulim Road. Simple, direct, done. But yesterday, it was a completely different story.

Driver went some weird, roundabout way. Even getting onto Kebun Nenas Road also not direct. He looped around inside Icon City first, which honestly I’d never do. Then from Kebun Nenas, instead of keeping it simple, he turned onto the old north-south trunk road, only then into Kota Permai.

How Grab drove me home

I thought okay, maybe that’s it. Nope, there was more nonsense after that. Grab map suddenly send him into Alma instead of just going straight like a normal person would. Then instead of turning into Taman Desa Palma, he masuk one small narrow kampung-style road where two cars also need to slow down and squeeze past each other, and came into my area from the back. Ended up travelling extra like 2km for nothing.

So now I’m thinking… why did Grab route like that? Why not just take the obvious, shorter way? Feels a bit suspicious. Like purposely make the trip longer so can justify the RM11 fare when it could’ve been cheaper if just went direct?

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