[guardian-dev] Free Software Ride Hailing Systems?

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at guardianproject.info
Mon Apr 10 13:14:54 EDT 2017



Nathan of Guardian:
> 
> 
> On Sat, Apr 8, 2017, at 10:57 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>
>> Its always seemed to me that building the software behind things like
>> Uber and Lyft would not be so hard.  If there was a free software
>> version, then all of these taxi companies around the world would be able
>> to compete with the monopolistic Uber juggernaut.  And there would be
>> lots of opportunity to make the software respect privacy.
>>
>> With Uber banned in Italy and other places, it seems like are some good
>> opportunities for this:
>> http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/D6tvS06-idk/italy-bans-uber
> 
> Have you seen this: LibreTaxi.org  ?
> 
> https://github.com/ro31337/libretaxi

I did see that, it looks like a promising start, but not very far along.
 Something to follow at least.

.hc

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