People could pay a small monthly fee for a card that acts as a homing beacon to cabs. Participating cabbies would be fitted with a GPS device to find people looking for cabs in the area. Could help out people in unfamiliar neighborhoods and help cab drivers save time looking for fares.
-- hooande, Dec 28 2007

Isn't this commonly known as a cellphone ?
-- 8th of 7, Dec 28 2007


Tell me how a cabbie can use your phone to find you? Not many phones currently have GPS, and even so it is just for receiving of data.

What if I don't want a phone? Sounds like a good idea to me.
-- Giblet, Dec 28 2007


My cabbie used my phone to find me by being called from it and being told by me where I am...
-- globaltourniquet, Dec 28 2007


Well, if I were rich I wouldn't want to be caught dead in my neighborhood.
-- zeno, Dec 29 2007


Hey, you deleted my annotation - and it was positive! Anyway, welcome to the halfbakery (again).
-- phoenix, Dec 29 2007


I think this could work in the same way as tomtom buddies, except the card has no display, you could just push a button and you would show up on the nearest cabbies nav screen.
-- riggers100, Dec 30 2007



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