A road transport mode in which a passenger is carried in a privately owned car by a driver arranged through a smartphone app or similar on demand booking service, rather than through a licensed taxi dispatch or a fixed route. Ridesharing emerged alongside smartphone technology as app based platforms matched independent drivers with passengers in real time, and it is distinguished from traditional taxi service chiefly by its booking and dispatch method and its use of drivers' own personal vehicles.
Facts
Core ConcernApp-dispatched, dynamically priced for-hire passenger transport, distinct from a traditional street-hailed taxi. 1 Connections
Preceded By
Ridesharing grew out of, and displaced much of, the taxicab trade it succeeded
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Ridesharing company
WikipediaIntroduction
A ridesharing company (or ridehailing service) is a company (or service offered by a company) that, via websites and mobile apps, matches passengers with drivers of vehicles for hire that, unlike traditional taxis, cannot legally be hailed from the street.
History
In 2009, Uber was founded as Ubercab by Garrett Camp, a computer programmer and the co-founder of StumbleUpon, and Travis Kalanick, who sold his Red Swoosh startup for $19 million in 2007.
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