Saturday, December 13, 2014

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em: Chicago and New York to develop their own Uber-like app for cabs

The city of Chicago has decided that if it can't beat Uber, it might as well join it. The government in the Windy City has decided to make some positive changes for cab drivers in the city, including the development of a universal mobile app to be used to dispatch cabs. The city noted that apps like Uber only control a few hundred cabs out of a city-wide fleet of 7000. The City wants the entire fleet to be available via its new app.



In New York City, City Council member Benjamin Kallos brought up the idea of developing an app that would allow users to "e-hail" a cab among the 20,000 that ...



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