Uber and Careem are banned in Karachi, a city of 20 million.
This seems like a life saver.
LibreTaxi – A free and open source alternative to Uber and Lyft
351–360 of 400 posts
Re: LibreTaxi – A free and open source alternative to Uber and Lyft
#352Earlier quoted context omitted.
The same is true in Argentina. Average citizens don't (can't) have credit cards, but Uber has started accepting cash recently.
In Argentina, the main problem for Uber is that the court ordered the credit card companies to block payments made by local clients to Uber, because of the company not adjusting to local regulations. So, if you don't have a credit card from another country, you can't use the app, and that makes it hard if not impossible for them to build the necessary economy of scale that their kind of operation needs.
Yup, that's also an issue. Mastercard does work though, but considering how few people have credit cards (and even fewer have Mastercard specifically), they're having problems hitting critical mass.
Re: LibreTaxi – A free and open source alternative to Uber and Lyft
#353Earlier quoted context omitted.
Uber is trying to address the Credit Card issues after it noticed that lots of Singaporeans, maids and foreign labor do not have credit cards but still needs the service. They accept cash now. https://www.techinasia.com/uber-cash-payments-singapore
If only there existed a peer-to-peer version of electronic cash that would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution . Maybe one of these days...
If only Bitcon had a high enough block size limit to allow more than 1.67 KB/s of transaction data per second. It could be a cryptocurrency, but it can't be Bitcoin.
Re: LibreTaxi – A free and open source alternative to Uber and Lyft
#354Really great tool, nice job!
Re: LibreTaxi – A free and open source alternative to Uber and Lyft
#355[deleted]
Re: LibreTaxi – A free and open source alternative to Uber and Lyft
#356I'll post a comment from ProductHunt, which might give a bit more context to where the founder sees this going, and why cash rides make sense under certain circumstances he designed the app for: […] I have gone to the founder's blog and it provides a better understanding of where he sees it going: Uber (and similar apps) will never reach many remote villages, cities and regions around the world (and don't have to), b…
> technology could greatly help the local communities in solving their transportation problems that are as "simple" as getting from point A to point B with no other feasible options available In rural communities here in Chile, and also in smaller towns, there is an amazing solution to this called Collectivo. I had never heard of it before arriving, but man it's the greatest thing. It's something in-between a bus and…
They are known as Dolmuş in Turkey. Essentially van-taxis. There's share taxis [0] in quite a few countries (often from airport to hotels or other high frequency routes). In Germany there's also "Anrufsammeltaxi (AST)" which is essentially a van like taxi-bus that you can call which is loosely bound to the regular bus routes. There's also "Bedarfsgesteuerter Flächenbetrieb" which is basically a bunch of van-taxis cruising around a set area without fixed routes. They usually use sophisticated route optimization, too.
Re: LibreTaxi – A free and open source alternative to Uber and Lyft
#357This wont work. Taxidrivers often dont speak your language, and always try to get high prices by being not so friendly. Uber/Lyft solves this problem.
Re: LibreTaxi – A free and open source alternative to Uber and Lyft
#358I'll post a comment from ProductHunt, which might give a bit more context to where the founder sees this going, and why cash rides make sense under certain circumstances he designed the app for: […] I have gone to the founder's blog and it provides a better understanding of where he sees it going: Uber (and similar apps) will never reach many remote villages, cities and regions around the world (and don't have to), b…
> technology could greatly help the local communities in solving their transportation problems that are as "simple" as getting from point A to point B with no other feasible options available In rural communities here in Chile, and also in smaller towns, there is an amazing solution to this called Collectivo. I had never heard of it before arriving, but man it's the greatest thing. It's something in-between a bus and…
Americans don't like sharing.
Re: LibreTaxi – A free and open source alternative to Uber and Lyft
#359Earlier quoted context omitted.
No neighbors? “The honest truth is that I am not really politically oriented. I would have really rather just be living out in the woods. If nobody had started cutting roads through there and cutting the trees down and come buzzing around in helicopters and snowmobiles I would still just be living there and the rest of the world could just take care of itself. I got involved in political issues because I was driven t…
Tim, are you ok?
Asks a man, who, according to his own website, sells product endorsements. Who here is insane? The person tellign the truth or the one who is smiling?
Edit: Yeah, I'm fine. Are you? I just took offense at the suggestion that a person could simply "escape" capitalism by moving out to the woods and living like a caveman. It is totally untrue.
Re: LibreTaxi – A free and open source alternative to Uber and Lyft
#360Earlier quoted context omitted.
Traditional web of trust has private keys for everyone. It's already decentralized and secure.
but web of trust means you have to trust your neighboring nodes, and trust that they are determining trust correctly for their neighbors, and so on.
You can use the exact same semi-trusting and crowd-trusting methods you would use on a blockchain. It's basically the same data, just without an extra layer of complexity thrown on.