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taxicard
Device that acts as a homing beacon for cabs | |
People could pay a small monthly fee for a card that acts as a homing beacon to cabs. Participating cabbies would be fitted with a GPS device to find people looking for cabs in the area. Could help out people in unfamiliar neighborhoods and help cab drivers save time looking for fares.
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Isn't this commonly known as a cellphone ? |
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Tell me how a cabbie can use your phone to find you? Not many phones currently have GPS, and even so it is just for receiving of data. |
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What if I don't want a phone? Sounds like a good idea to me. |
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My cabbie used my phone to find me by being called from it and being told by me where I am... |
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Well, if I were rich I wouldn't want to be caught dead in my neighborhood. |
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Hey, you deleted my annotation - and it was positive! Anyway, welcome to the halfbakery (again). |
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I think this could work in the same way as tomtom buddies, except the card has no display, you could just push a button and you would show up on the nearest cabbies nav screen. |
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