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I'm waiting for someone to make Uber, Lyft and others into a utility where you request a car with an app and the closest one, regardless of type, gets the call and comes to you. The current APIs seem to make this exact scenario a bit difficult but it wouldn't surprise me to see something like this come about at some point in the future. There is just not a huge difference between the two to really care about, in my opinion anyway.

Edit: Any reason for the down-votes? I'm genuinely curious if it's because people disagree with me and why or if it was something else.




Apparently Karhoo is attempting to do just that. Anecdotally, I've heard they've raised upwards of $200M, but I can't confirm that is true.

http://karhoo.com/


Interesting though that seems to be more for taxis as far as I can tell. Interesting though.


I have not tried it, but PriceRide aggregates transportation providers based on price http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/mobile/uber-ubers-app-compares-r...




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