Hailo Cab Let’s You Hail A Yellow Cab In London With Your iPhone or Android

While hot tech start up Uber is preparing to embark on London before the 2012 Olympic games there is already an app available for iPhone and Android that lets people in England hail a taxicab.

The app called Hailo is a network that matches passengers and licensed taxi drivers. The app makes cabbies days more sociable and allows British taxi drivers to go to destination fairs rather than waiting at taxistands all day.

The app is great because it beats calling a taxi. Instead the user can click a button on their Hailo app and a cab is dispatched to them. Hailo promises you’re never two clicks away from a taxi.  Hailo allows you to pay by credit card or debit card in-app or in cash to the driver. Hailo cab drivers will even wait five minutes before starting the meter.

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Hailo was launched in November 2011 and on display at the recent SXSWi trade show in Austin Texas. Their CEO and co-founder is Jay Bregman who’s most notable for his E-Courier service in England. Their early stage investors included Wellington Partners, principle investors in Spotify and Atomico an international venture capital firm founded by Niklas Zennstrom a co-founder of Skype.

CEO Bregman said:

“Every day in major cities around the world, consumers waste a million hours hunting for taxis, and drivers leave tens of millions of pounds on the table due to inefficiency in the market. Our platform networks together independent licensed drivers into an engaged community, providing smartphone-based tools which will become as essential to their trade as Photoshop is to designers, and gives passengers a new alternative which is faster and far sexier than private hire.”

“London taxis are consistently rated number one in the world for quality and service — and we’ve tapped the best engineers and investors anywhere to make their service even better through technology, making life easier for Londoners and ultimately exporting this elite experience to major cities around the world.”

 

For more on Hailo visit hailocab.com

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2 Comments

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    Thanks Kyle. Great review. One small point, Hailo uses mobile technology to geo-locate your nearest safe black cab, rather than ‘dispatching’ taxis in the old-fashioned way. This means faster, more efficient service for both driver and passenger which translates into no extra charges for book and paying by card – you pay ONLY the meter. Thanks again. Great blog.

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