The New York Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) is releasing a list of proposed rule changes that would permit the use of smartphone apps to hail and pay for taxicabs, provided they work with the city’s own computerized payment and trip data system. The proposal comes two weeks after regulatory disputes forced the upstart Uber to end its own taxi service in the city.
Every app would need to be licensed
The proposals would require any e-hail app to obtain a one-year, renewable license from the TLC, but would permit both payment within the app and with cash or credit card inside the car. Previously, Uber ran afoul of regulators by settling fares outside of the city’s own T-PEP system, which processes payments and transmits trip...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/29/3574762/nyc-taxi-app-rule-proposal-e-hail-tlc
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