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If you live in Manhattan, hailing a taxi is about as easy as walking out your front door. But for many Americans, finding a cab when you need one can be an exercise in futility.Enter 1800cabride.com. Entrepeneur (and New York cab driver) Jason Diaz says he wants to make it the 1-800-flowers of the taxi industry.
Here's how it works. You log on to the company's website or call the 800 number and a local cab company is contacted with instructions to come pick you up. To make matters simpler, you get a flat fee including the fare and tip. You pay with a credit card when you make the reservation.
You can request a cab with as little as ten minutes notice, although you're only guaranteed service if you make a reservation three hours in advance. Right now, the service is available in 40 metropolitan areas, with more expected soon.
[via Gadling]
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Subscribe to commentsAaronApr 7th 2007 7:36PM
There are some rideshare websites, and a few websites for sharing taxi. A very good rideshare website is GishiGo. It helps you exchange identity, and kinda filter out the people who are all talk, but don't show up for rideshare. This is unfortunately a big drawback to free anonymous websites like Craigslist (though CL has the most eyeballs). You can more easily spot the annoying CL people when they refuse to put up 99 cents for the GishiGo post. Many people play that very annoying B.S. game ... GishiGo helps you identify those people. Helps you build confidence in the rideshare participants.
www.GishiGo.com