Private cars can only be used by themselves, but it is illegal to collect money for customers to drive. This is because these private cars have no relevant procedures, which does not provide certain safety guarantee for passengers, and will also impact the interests of regular taxis. Therefore, national policy does not allow private cars to ride.

The constitutive requirements of the crime of illegal business operation are:

1, the object of infringement is market order;

2. Subjectively, it is intentional and has the purpose of seeking illegal interests;

3. Objectively, it is the act of dealing in franchise, monopoly goods or other restricted goods and buying and selling import and export licenses without permission;

4. The subject is a general subject.

To sum up, it is illegal for private cars to ride. Private cars can only be used by themselves, but it is illegal to collect money for customers to drive.

Legal basis:

Article 225 of the Criminal Code of People's Republic of China (PRC).

The crime of illegal business operation violates the provisions of the state and commits one of the following illegal business operations, disrupting the market order, and if the circumstances are serious, it shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention, and shall also, or shall only, be fined not less than one time but not more than five times the illegal income; If the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years, and shall also be fined not less than one time but not more than five times for illegal gains or confiscation of property:

(a) without permission, the franchise, monopoly of goods or other goods restricted by laws and administrative regulations;

(2) buying and selling import and export licenses, import and export certificates of origin and other business licenses or approval documents stipulated by laws and administrative regulations;

(three) without the approval of the relevant competent departments of the state, illegally engaged in securities, futures, insurance business, or illegally engaged in fund payment and settlement business;

(four) other illegal business activities that seriously disrupt the market order.