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I'm currently programmer nomad-ing in Uruguay and have been delighted with Easy Taxi. I don't know if all the cabs use it, but tons of them do and it works just
by flippyhead 11y ago
I'm currently programmer nomad-ing in Uruguay and have been delighted with Easy Taxi. I don't know if all the cabs use it, but tons of them do and it works just as well as Lyft/Uber did for me in Seattle. Real-time updates of location, ratings, instant confirmation of fare acceptance... I say I want a cab and pretty much get one within 5 minutes no matter where or when I am.
It's all the same yellow and black taxies but everyone has a cell phone mounted to their dash and.. it just works. I'll never ever understand why taxies in the US haven't done this. Had they, I probably wouldn't have switched _exclusively_ to using Lyft.
- lucaspiller 11y agoIt's the same here in Lithuania, when Uber started to become popular a few years ago the taxi companies joined forces and launched their own apps (there are two main competing apps). I don't understand how US taxi companies have been so oblivious to this, given each one in major cities probably has more cabs than the whole country does here :D Uber finally launched a couple of months ago, but it's more expensive and doesn't have as many cars.