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Do services count? Because in that case, ride-hailing. A replacement for services like Uber and Lyft.
A private ride hailing app sounds like a safety nightmare. It's one of those things you want blazingly documented and auditable
I agree that data collection is a good security measure in this case. But privacy friendly does not necessarily mean there is no data collected. Important is that nothing is shared with 3rd parties and all data is well protected.
Safety features nessaseraly demand open and auditable by third parties.
We need to be able to ensure that abusers aren't hopping around companies abusing passengers or drivers, for example. It's hard to do that with complete privacy.
It's one of the cases where strong regulations so third parties can't do things with your data is important, but also sharing that data to protect yourself and others more vulnerable than you is important.
What's wrong with taxi services?
From a client perspective Uber and Lyft don't solve any issue that taxi services don't. They may be more convenient/accessible by providing an app, but that's not an unsolvable issue.
But from a privacy perspective taxis clearly have a leg up since you're an anonymous customer.
Off the top of my head, taxi services lack:
I think most (maybe all) of this could be solved by something like a clearinghouse for taxi rides, effectively federating the various taxi services in an area, with a web app available for hailing.
So true! In Germany we have Blablacar and Flixbus / Flixtrain, which have soo much better services to travel cheaply. But its proprietary "install our app" garbage
Something that's communtiy based and doesn't fleece the drivers and riders so some asshole can have another yacht
https://aktuelltfokus.se/foraragd-taxi-app-utmanar-uber-och-bolt/ Sweden got a collective owned service :)