a better way to share a cab…

Tonight, in discussing a blog post he had come across a few months ago, Jon said the following:

“People want to share cabs, they just don’t have an idea as to where the act of meeting would take place, or they can’t get to one that is convenient for them.”

He was speaking, of course, about NYC’s widely derided implementation of its own cab sharing program.  And while Shareable.net offered some great ideas for how the city could better promote its efforts to introduce this concept, the reality is that sharing a cab needs to be as simple as hailing a cab.  Otherwise, commuters will just take the bus… or they’ll spend the extra duckets.

To wit: the introduction of a whole bevy of new players in this space–all of them mobile applications–attests to the fact that our on-demand culture requires on-demand gadgets to make cab-sharing the on-demand experience it needs to be.

BONUS:
Read Shareable’s take on cab-sharing etiquette.  This topic is always kinda fun.