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May 10, 2011 11:15 pm GMT
Uber is a black car service that you can schedule via a mobile app. It's slightly more expensive than taxis, but it is absolutely worth it, and I now rely on it to get around in San Francsico.The way it works is that black car drivers have an iPhone with their own special Uber app. When someone requests a car, the drivers close to that person see the request, and any of them can grab it. They then pick up the passenger and take them to wherever they want to go. Everything is tracked via GPS and billing is automatic to your credit card.It's perfect. Except when it isn't. Yesterday I requested a car and even though the app showed the car as arrived and on top of me on the map, it was nowhere to be found. I called the driver (a handy feature in the app), but our connection was so bad that we couldn't communicate. So I hit "cancel" (a $10 charge to me) and walked to my destination instead.
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Uber is a black car service that you can schedule via a mobile app. It's slightly more expensive than taxis, but it is absolutely worth it, and I now rely on it to get around in San Francsico.The way it works is that black car drivers have an iPhone with their own special Uber app. When someone requests a car, the drivers close to that person see the request, and any of them can grab it. They then pick up the passenger and take them to wherever they want to go. Everything is tracked via GPS and billing is automatic to your credit card.It's perfect. Except when it isn't. Yesterday I requested a car and even though the app showed the car as arrived and on top of me on the map, it was nowhere to be found. I called the driver (a handy feature in the app), but our connection was so bad that we couldn't communicate. So I hit "cancel" (a $10 charge to me) and walked to my destination instead.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/Ge-JNQ53QyU/
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