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Serious question here: how come taxi organizations haven't leveraged uber/lyft tech by now? Seems most kinks, tech and laws are figured out now. Why not upgr

Serious question here: how come taxi organizations haven't leveraged uber/lyft tech by now? Seems most kinks, tech and laws are figured out now. Why not upgrade using capital since the returns are obvious!?

taxicabjesus 10y ago
> Serious question here: how come taxi organizations haven't leveraged uber/lyft tech by now? They have, but only the largest taxi companies have the financial resources to do it well, especially in an environment of collapsing revenue. There are off-the-shelf apps for taxi companies, but these aren't very polished. Large transportation companies have existing dispatching systems to work with their existing contracts (Medicaid transportation, etc), and they can't just 'start over' with a new dispatching system very quickly. The company that I used to drive for bought the software company that provided its Electronic Taxi Dispatch v1.0 [1] phone app, and spent a couple million upgrading it to v1.1, where the passenger is given instantaneous feedback just like duper's app. It took several months to work out most the bugs - I frequently filed reports with the developers. [1] http://www.taxiwars.org/p/electronic-taxi-dispatch-v1.html http://www.taxiwars.org/p/electronic-taxi-dispatch-v1.html They were going to replace all the in-cab computers with tablets, to better interface with their new app, but I don't know if they've done that yet... Discount Cab's apps: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.treeline.gfc.discount_cab https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.treeline.g... https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/total-transit-prev.-discount/id499063019 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/total-transit-prev.-discount... VIP Taxi's apps: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vip-taxi/id1076304288?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vip-taxi/id1076304288?mt=8 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vip.taxi https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vip.taxi

taxicabjesus 10y ago

> Serious question here: how come taxi organizations haven't leveraged uber/lyft tech by now? They have, but only the largest taxi companies have the financial resources to do it well, especially in an environment of collapsing revenue. There are off-the-shelf apps for taxi companies, but these aren't very polished. Large transportation companies have existing dispatching systems to work with their existing contracts (Medicaid transportation, etc), and they can't just 'start over' with a new dispatching system very quickly. The company that I used to drive for bought the software company that provided its Electronic Taxi Dispatch v1.0 [1] phone app, and spent a couple million upgrading it to v1.1, where the passenger is given instantaneous feedback just like duper's app. It took several months to work out most the bugs - I frequently filed reports with the developers. [1] http://www.taxiwars.org/p/electronic-taxi-dispatch-v1.html http://www.taxiwars.org/p/electronic-taxi-dispatch-v1.html They were going to replace all the in-cab computers with tablets, to better interface with their new app, but I don't know if they've done that yet... Discount Cab's apps: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.treeline.gfc.discount_cab https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.treeline.g... https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/total-transit-prev.-discount/id499063019 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/total-transit-prev.-discount... VIP Taxi's apps: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vip-taxi/id1076304288?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vip-taxi/id1076304288?mt=8 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vip.taxi https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vip.taxi