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Driver controlled automated taxi service and devices

  • US 8,554,608 B1
  • Filed: 03/23/2011
  • Issued: 10/08/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An in-taxi customer selection system, the system comprising:

  • in a plurality of taxis, a touch-screen display map of a surrounding location of each said taxi;

    an indicator of at least one future rider desiring a taxi, exhibited anonymously on each said display map and lacking destination data;

    sensors within said touch-screen display, wherein upon receiving a selection of an indicator on one of said display maps from a driver of one of said taxis, said indicator is removed from all other display maps and said driver is sent a confirmation of said selection.

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