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Re:Uber Opens Its API by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @11:11AM (#8202638)
Really? That's marvelous. Is there an app begging to be written here? For the independent driver's needs, not for the supplier (Uber/Lyft etc). An aggregator of ride request feeds.
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Re:Uber Opens Its API by bcohen5055 on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @01:47PM (#8203460)
A few years back you would be describing the role of the dispatcher for a taxi service. Now it's a killer business plan!
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Re:Uber Opens Its API by smackfu on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @12:22PM (#8202983)
Uber provides the drivers with a locked-down iPhone to get the ride requests, so it's not that simple.
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Re:Uber Opens Its API by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @12:51PM (#8203136)
Surprised; I thought Uber was some sort of public-access ridesharing thing. If they vet drivers and license them, how is it different from any other cab service?
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Re:Uber Opens Its API by smackfu on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @01:43PM (#8203430)
Mainly because they don't actually license them unless the local authorities force them to. They do vet them, in theory.

And to follow-on, the practical difference is that they are a lot less terrible than most existing cab / car services.

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Re:Uber Opens Its API by iancarroll on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @02:35PM (#8203759)
People have been selling/giving away their Uber accounts too, IIRC.
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Re:Uber Opens Its API by thejosh on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @12:11PM (#8202929)
Yes, simply have every taxi related app feed into a central one, take a few cents off every transaction, boom done.
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