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Was Uber really the 'first'? Lyft a similar service came out of zimride.com which was doing ride sharing as early as 2007 though perhaps not through a smart ph
by pmorici 13y ago
Was Uber really the 'first'? Lyft a similar service came out of zimride.com which was doing ride sharing as early as 2007 though perhaps not through a smart phone in real time.
- ajju 13y agoNo, the idea of matching riders to driver using a GPS enabled phone is at least as old as 2001: http://www.google.com/patents/US6697730 http://www.google.com/patents/US6697730 Zimride did indeed launch in 2007 as a Facebook based carpooling app. It wasn't real-time at that time. Don't know if/when Zimride built an iPhone app but I built a real-time ridesharing iPhone app in 2008: http://ridecell.com/gt/ http://ridecell.com/gt/ Uber started in 2009. Disclaimer: The company I started, InstantCab, competes directly with Uber.