Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Technology and Ridesharing grows

Uber and Lyft are big leaders in the new one tap economy. With the proliferation of smart phones everyone wants to tap a button and bam there's the service. Now you can order your Starbucks ahead of time and even order a pizza with an emoji. Traditional forms of the service industry are under attack as the business models change gears at an alarming pace. Even the juggernauts of industry like UPS  and the post office are going to have to stand up and take notice. Startup companies such as shyp  and sidecar will be slowly inching into the package delivery business using smartphone resource sharing apps that allow faster and faster pickups and delivery. A post office in Sweden has even started delivery via drone now and Amazon is still ironing out the legal requirements to spread the use of drones for just such a purpose here. One thing for certain is, technology will help save fossil fuels as the number of vehicle usage hours will diminish as the network grows. 

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