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Just to clarify: green cabs are allowed to pick up street hails in Manhattan, North of West 110th street and north of East 96th street. http://www.nyc.gov/html/
by soyiuz 11y ago
Just to clarify: green cabs are allowed to pick up street hails in Manhattan, North of West 110th street and north of East 96th street. http://www.nyc.gov/html/tlc/html/industry/shl.shtml http://www.nyc.gov/html/tlc/html/industry/shl.shtml
The city now also promotes its own hailing app called Way2Ride, which has Uber-like features (pay by mobile and request hail to location). https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.verifone.way2ride&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.verifone.w...
- humanrebar 11y agoUber and other companies are itching to fill the role of taxi hailing app. Why does the city need to promote its own? This sort of arbitrary anti-competitiveness is exactly why Uber has a niche to fill in the first place.
- juliangregorian 11y agoHuh? Isn't having a competing taxi hailing app the definition of competitiveness?
- humanrebar 11y agoIt's a portal provided by the government (through a contract). It's may be competitive for taxis (that's an empirical question, I think), but it's not competitive in terms of algorithms, ratings systems, predictive taxi distribution, etc.
- pavel_lishin 11y ago> it's not competitive in terms of algorithms, ratings systems, predictive taxi distribution, etc. Isn't that for the market to decide? :)