Do you have any other taxi related experience or knowledge you would like to share? You seem quite knowledgeable.
Also, do you think local taxi groups/companies/coops could benefit by hosting their own instance in a federated Uber like platform?
Actual ride sharing, like, independent people using things like bulletin boards to both get to work together at a mutual benefit, is a fantastic practice. But when you try to make it some big service you basically get a half assed replacement for taxis that shift the financial burden onto drivers and cut prices as a result.
That was the reason I started looking for a ride-sharing service in the first place. I was in Larissa, the morning after the Tempi train crash occurred. I was about to ride to Athens with my car and I realized that the only train track of the country was going to be out of order for months (still is). So, I decided to offer my seats for free to anyone interested, I made a post on a fb group about ride-sharing, but by the time someone reached out I had already left.
That’s when I realized that user experience matters, that person was actively looking for a ride when I posted, but they missed my post. So, e-mail notifications was the 2nd feature I developed.