<story><title>LibreTaxi – A free and open source alternative to Uber and Lyft</title><url>http://libretaxi.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spIrr</author><text>I&amp;#x27;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:&lt;p&gt;[…] I have gone to the founder&amp;#x27;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&amp;#x27;t have to), but technology could greatly help the local communities in solving their transportation problems that are as &amp;quot;simple&amp;quot; as getting from point A to point B with no other feasible options available.&lt;p&gt;For more details, here&amp;#x27;s the founder&amp;#x27;s blog on this: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;@romanpushkin&amp;#x2F;how-i-made-uber-like-app-in-no-time-with-javascript-and-secret-sauce-94ef9120c7f6#.dc99pd5qm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;@romanpushkin&amp;#x2F;how-i-made-uber-like-app-in...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>radarsat1</author><text>&amp;gt; technology could greatly help the local communities in solving their transportation problems that are as &amp;quot;simple&amp;quot; as getting from point A to point B with no other feasible options available&lt;p&gt;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&amp;#x27;s the greatest thing.  It&amp;#x27;s something in-between a bus and a taxi: a taxi with a predefined route.  So if you&amp;#x27;re on a route, which there are many, you flag down a collectivo as it passes, and since both you and the driver already know where it&amp;#x27;s going, it&amp;#x27;ll stop for you even if there are already people in the car.&lt;p&gt;What makes this amazing is that it&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;cheap&lt;/i&gt; because the route is pre-set, and it&amp;#x27;s shared, and the driver can just go all day knowing there will be people along the route, and doesn&amp;#x27;t have to finish one ride before starting another.  But meanwhile they&amp;#x27;ll generally go partially off their route if you request it, and it&amp;#x27;s not too much of a bother.&lt;p&gt;Why don&amp;#x27;t North American rural areas do this? It&amp;#x27;s a really great way to get around, and makes it so you can live (or at least visit) in rural areas without owning a car.</text></comment>
<story><title>LibreTaxi – A free and open source alternative to Uber and Lyft</title><url>http://libretaxi.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spIrr</author><text>I&amp;#x27;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:&lt;p&gt;[…] I have gone to the founder&amp;#x27;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&amp;#x27;t have to), but technology could greatly help the local communities in solving their transportation problems that are as &amp;quot;simple&amp;quot; as getting from point A to point B with no other feasible options available.&lt;p&gt;For more details, here&amp;#x27;s the founder&amp;#x27;s blog on this: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;@romanpushkin&amp;#x2F;how-i-made-uber-like-app-in-no-time-with-javascript-and-secret-sauce-94ef9120c7f6#.dc99pd5qm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;@romanpushkin&amp;#x2F;how-i-made-uber-like-app-in...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>parasanti</author><text>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.
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.techinasia.com&amp;#x2F;uber-cash-payments-singapore&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.techinasia.com&amp;#x2F;uber-cash-payments-singapore&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>