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Title: Bitcoin & dynamic ridesharing. Post by: MoonShadow on October 29, 2010, 11:56:09 PM There are several phone apps in development intended to permit a rider to hitch with a driver for a near-real-time rideshare, such as Avego Shared Transport, RideNow and Flinc.mobi. All of these systems assume a transfer of funds from rider to driver electronicly. All of these systems use GPS mapping to match riders with drivers in complex ways. None of these systems are publicly live.
Could any of you android developers hack together an app that simply notifies drivers headed in your general direction along the road that you are standing at of your destination and an offer in bitcoins? Title: Re: Bitcoin & dynamic ridesharing. Post by: Anonymous on October 30, 2010, 12:07:33 AM There are several phone apps in development intended to permit a rider to hitch with a driver for a near-real-time rideshare, such as Avego Shared Transport, RideNow and Flinc.mobi. All of these systems assume a transfer of funds from rider to driver electronicly. All of these systems use GPS mapping to match riders with drivers in complex ways. None of these systems are publicly live. Could any of you android developers hack together an app that simply notifies drivers headed in your general direction along the road that you are standing at of your destination and an offer in bitcoins? That would be awesome. Expect to get reamed by the taxi industry lol. Title: Re: Bitcoin & dynamic ridesharing. Post by: ShadowOfHarbringer on October 30, 2010, 12:27:46 AM There are several phone apps in development intended to permit a rider to hitch with a driver for a near-real-time rideshare, such as Avego Shared Transport, RideNow and Flinc.mobi. All of these systems assume a transfer of funds from rider to driver electronicly. All of these systems use GPS mapping to match riders with drivers in complex ways. None of these systems are publicly live. Could any of you android developers hack together an app that simply notifies drivers headed in your general direction along the road that you are standing at of your destination and an offer in bitcoins? (http://www.ridenow.org/ OR http://www.avego.com/ OR http://www.flinc.org/) + Bitcoin = :o ;D 8) This is just too much awesomness in a single point of this space-time continuum. I can't bear it, I'm gonna blow. How do people actually produce such ideas ? Title: Re: Bitcoin & dynamic ridesharing. Post by: MoonShadow on October 30, 2010, 01:04:47 AM There are several phone apps in development intended to permit a rider to hitch with a driver for a near-real-time rideshare, such as Avego Shared Transport, RideNow and Flinc.mobi. All of these systems assume a transfer of funds from rider to driver electronicly. All of these systems use GPS mapping to match riders with drivers in complex ways. None of these systems are publicly live. Could any of you android developers hack together an app that simply notifies drivers headed in your general direction along the road that you are standing at of your destination and an offer in bitcoins? That would be awesome. Expect to get reamed by the taxi industry lol. That's another good reason for a Bitcoin based app, as opposed to some $ based transfer system. Title: Re: Bitcoin & dynamic ridesharing. Post by: Anonymous on October 30, 2010, 01:52:50 AM There are several phone apps in development intended to permit a rider to hitch with a driver for a near-real-time rideshare, such as Avego Shared Transport, RideNow and Flinc.mobi. All of these systems assume a transfer of funds from rider to driver electronicly. All of these systems use GPS mapping to match riders with drivers in complex ways. None of these systems are publicly live. Could any of you android developers hack together an app that simply notifies drivers headed in your general direction along the road that you are standing at of your destination and an offer in bitcoins? That would be awesome. Expect to get reamed by the taxi industry lol. That's another good reason for a Bitcoin based app, as opposed to some $ based transfer system. Agreed :) http://venturebeat.com/2010/10/26/ubercab-ryan-graves-cease-and-desit/ (http://venturebeat.com/2010/10/26/ubercab-ryan-graves-cease-and-desit/) I wonder which city has the highest concentration of bitcoin users? Title: Re: Bitcoin & dynamic ridesharing. Post by: MoonShadow on October 30, 2010, 02:07:35 AM I wonder which city has the highest concentration of bitcoin users? It doesn't matter, build the app, and they will come. Title: Re: Bitcoin & dynamic ridesharing. Post by: Anonymous on October 30, 2010, 02:25:09 AM I wonder which city has the highest concentration of bitcoin users? It doesn't matter, build the app, and they will come. All it needs really is a mobile interface for mybitcoin. Title: Re: Bitcoin & dynamic ridesharing. Post by: MoonShadow on October 30, 2010, 05:22:18 AM I wonder which city has the highest concentration of bitcoin users? It doesn't matter, build the app, and they will come. All it needs really is a mobile interface for mybitcoin. And a server setup to compare 10K GPS grid numbers and their vectors at a time. Simple right? Probably not, or these other apps would have hit the public by now. Granted, these other guys are trying to compare destinations as well as some other issues, and might have trouble with the transfer payment laws across borders. All that I'm asking for is a client that can tell the server "I'm Joe Sixpack, I'm trying to get (downtown|WalMart|Atlanta, Georgia|Burning Man), I'm willing to offer x.y bitcoins per mile to get me as far as you will take me, and I'm not a psycho" and then the server forward that message to the client of the driver who is approaching the GPS location of the rider and is traveling in the general direction of the rider's goal. Future improvements to such an electronic thumb would likely come later if the principle is sound; for example, a peer rating system might prove valuable. As in, "this guy never paid me for the trip|he said I have a perty mouth|he paid me in grade A toke" kind of peer ratings. |