Hailing a taxi -- by mobile phone
Source: CNN
For the first time since taxis were licensed in London 350 years ago, there is a new way to hail black cabs: By mobile phone.
After dialling just one central number the service uses global positioning satellites to pinpoint the user's mobile phone to within a few meters, it then connects the caller to the nearest taxi.
The developer Zingo, a division of taxi makers Manganese Bronze Group, have also installed hands-free mobile phones in taxis so you can give your precise location to the driver.
"For centuries whenever you've wanted a black cab, you've had to go out onto the street to hail one, yet advances in communication technology over the last two decades have meant that you don't need to anymore," says Mark Fawcett, managing director of Zingo.
