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Really? That's marvelous. Is there an app begging to be written here? For the independent driver's needs, not for the supplier (Uber/Lyft etc). An aggregator of ride request feeds.



A few years back you would be describing the role of the dispatcher for a taxi service. Now it's a killer business plan!


Uber provides the drivers with a locked-down iPhone to get the ride requests, so it's not that simple.


Surprised; I thought Uber was some sort of public-access ridesharing thing. If they vet drivers and license them, how is it different from any other cab service?


Mainly because they don't actually license them unless the local authorities force them to. They do vet them, in theory.

And to follow-on, the practical difference is that they are a lot less terrible than most existing cab / car services.


People have been selling/giving away their Uber accounts too, IIRC.


Yes, simply have every taxi related app feed into a central one, take a few cents off every transaction, boom done.




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