Proving we’ve come full circle, Uber is now a taxi company

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by Sindy Cator on June 14, 2016 at 5:59 pm

Touted for years as the company that would disrupt the taxi industry, Uber is now going old school and experimenting with a telephone dispatch system that allows those without smartphones to call in to order an Uber ride. If that sounds familiar, it should; it’s how taxi’s have operated for more than a century. The new program is being tested as a pilot program with the Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority in Florida and launches on July 18. The program is part of a project to offer subsidized Uber rides to those typically reliant on the bus-based public transit system, according…