Sentences with phrase «taxi companies now»

Taxi companies now generally allow customers to book and pay for rides through an app.

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What kickstarted in 2009 with just $ 200,000 in seed funding is now a multi-billion dollar company that provides commuters from all across the globe an alternative to the usual taxi transportation.

«So even as innovation is producing wonderful things for consumers — you know, mobile phones instead of pay phones, email instead of snail mail, taxis at the press of a button — what you also see is that companies now have much higher odds of dying and dying suddenly,» says Vedantam.

The company is working now to gain approval for the pilot program with hopes of eventually expanding the number of taxis involved to the thousands.

Now, Aurora is coming out of stealth to announce that it is working with Volkswagen and Hyundai to build each of these companies a fleet of robot taxis, which it refers to as Mobility - as - a-Service (MaaS).

He has directed barbs — in speeches and videos, and on Twitter — especially fervently toward the taxi industry, but also toward city and local regulators across the country (and now the world), his rivals, and sometimes even his own customers when they dare to question his company's practices.

«Uber refused to address the situation or investigate the driver responsible... Since then, Uber's national scandals regarding the New York taxi strike and now sexual harassment in the workplace have only confirmed that this company has an unacceptable way of treating its customers and even employees.»

That's why — in order to help out and also to build up some good publicity and set itself apart from competitors — one taxi company in Japan started a special maternity taxi service for pregnant women, and it's proved so popular that now a ton of companies in different cities are doing it, too.

Bloomberg - era taxi commissioner David Yassky is now working as an adviser to Lyft, a competitor to the taxi - app company Uber.

Now it may be the case that Ahlam Jaoui of her parents» house in Bay Ridge, who is signed up to find work as a trade show brand ambassador, who is willing to pose wearing a hijab and say that she wants to drive a taxi, and whose LinkedIn profile lists her as still working for an out - of - business investment company, is also a well - positioned power broker who can convince lawyers and business owners in Westchester and New Jersey to contribute thousands of dollars to Mayor de Blasio's re-election campaign.

David Plouffe, a former aide to Barack Obama now working for the ride - sharing company, has claimed de Blasio is simply thwarting its progress because he received campaign contributions from taxi medallion owners, who have warily watched the number of Uber drivers eclipse their own ranks.

For many others, however, the Impala is now recognized more as a utilitarian model, typically seeing service as a rental option, taxi, company car or police cruiser.

Traditional licensed taxi drivers in major cities have been the most vocal opponents of expanded operating rights for the ride - sharing companies, and now they could benefit from new technology that will put them on more even competitive footing.

City Ru $ h is a first in the series as due to its mission - based nature there is an actual objective besides making money, and that is completing the multiple tasks given by the original games» cabbies (who now own their own taxi companies), that often revolve around a short, silly story and the one - time customers involved.

Now with more companies providing taxi - like transportation services, such as Uber and Lyft, there has been an increase in the number of taxi crashes across the country which can seriously injure passengers and / or pedestrians.

Now it's a multi-billion dollar company and has supplanted the word «taxi» from the everyday lexicon.

Now the company's confidence is higher still — «drivers on Uber make more money than with any other ridesharing platform or taxi company.