Flywheel lets taxis replace old hardware with smartphone meter to compete with Uber, Lyft

Taxi drivers in California can now use Flywheel's TaxiOS metering technology. Photo via Flywheel.
Taxis in California can now ditch their legacy metering hardware and use smartphone-based technology to calculate fares. Flywheel, the San Francisco-based company which develops an app to let taxi passengers hail and pay for rides with their smartphone, today announced that it won approval from the California Division of Measurement Standards to use its TaxiOS system in taxis across the state. TaxiOS is a GPS-based taximeter that runs off a smartphone, allowing taxi drivers to use their mobile devices to calculate fares, in addition to managing payments, navigation, and dispatch processes. The system helps taxis utilize similar features seen with Uber or Lyft, like the… Read More
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