| Comment | Indeed. And the method is about to come crashing into the taxi game actually. Uber has just bought a company called AutoCab, which is the UK's biggest taxi dispatch software company. Network and CityCabs, among many more, use Autocab as their system. Autocab, in turn, is linked in with loads of smaller aggregators like CMAC and various airport transfer systems. Uber's plan is to integrate the systems and share the job load among all channels. So, It's likely that at some point soon when you order an Uber that they send the job through to a Network driver or if you book with Network then an Uber shows up. Complete illusion of choice.
The bigger news on this though is it seems Uber has found a way to stick the middle finger up to local authorities on all its licensing issues. They are making moves away from being simply a private hire company to being more of the booking aggregator for all private hire companies.
Anyway, getting way off topic. |
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