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2 things: 1. It says something about the quality of what you're doing when the competition has to selectively enforce laws (or change them as the DC City Counc
by kunle 14y ago
2 things:
1. It says something about the quality of what you're doing when the competition has to selectively enforce laws (or change them as the DC City Council tried) in order to compete effectively.
2. Probably a good move for Uber - basically adding a ton more data about pickups/dropoffs in the city across NYC's taxi fleet (which would be insanely useful if they ever launch a p2p service like Lyft has done) and, even more crucially, gets them to a more mass-market price point.
- untog 14y agoadding a ton more data about pickups/dropoffs in the city across NYC's taxi fleet (which would be insanely useful if they ever launch a p2p service like Lyft has done) New York City's TLC actually already offers this data for the entire yellow cab fleet. An interesting data set, for sure.
- carterschonwald 14y agowheres that data located? I tried to dig around for it a while ago, but no avail.
- kunle 14y agoGood point. I wonder if by plugging this into it's routing/dispatch engine in real time, Uber can actually generate more revenue? I have to imagine that aggregating this demand will help increase the capacity utilization of the cab fleet (if cabs were maxed out on the number of trips they could take in total, the cab drivers would have no demand for a tool like this, and if the article's numbers are to be believed, between Uber and Hallo, 20% of NYC cabbies are signed up and the service hasnt even started yet!)
- timfrietas 14y agoWhere do you get it? I couldn't find it on the site...do you have to file a FOIL request with them?
- untog 14y agoUnfortunately, yes. But it's >60GB of data for 2011 alone, hosting it might be prohibitive.