iTaxi
December 20, 2008
Okay, so Apple stays busy coming up with new apps for its iLine. The latest app that I recently read about has to do with hitchhiking . When the program is available, drivers who want to offer rides will first download the app, then record their preferred routes. The driver puts the iPhone on the dashboard, and it records the entire trip and sends the route to the Apple networkets. So the passenger needs to either a) have an iPhone or b) look up a ride on the Avego website. Avego will charge 30 cents a mile, with 85 percent going to the driver to recover some of the commuting costs and 15 percent to the company up their route. How do you think an application such as this will actually work? What selling points could Apple and Avego use in order to gets consmers to use this application? If this becomes popular, I wonder how or if this will affect other forms of travel?
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Julie | December 22, 2008 at 8:21 am
I don’t know about this, it sounds kind of creepy to me.
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Jaime Cruz | December 22, 2008 at 7:03 pm
If there is a specific taxi company that has exclusive access to pick up people on certain routes, that seems ok. Total strangers having access to an itinerary of where I go, or strangers wanting to pick someone up at random. I would have to think about it a little bit more, but if you’ve got to get somewhere, and you’ve got an Iphone, call a friend to pick you up.
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Alicia | January 9, 2009 at 5:34 am
So…you have an iphone or internet service and maybe you download a hitchhiking app. Which means to me that it may be safe to assume you know you will hitchhike in advance, right? Can’t you make other plans instead? I would say this would impact other forms of transportation, especially since the charges to go from state to state are probably much less than a bus, train, rental car, or taxi ride. I think a positive incentive is the pay to the driver who does pick up the hitchhiker.
Sounds CRAZY! Isn’t hitchhiking illegal in most places?