taxis

2015 has been a year jammed with updates about the development of drones, self-driving cars, and app-based taxi services. In the fever dreams of tech futurists, the next step was obvious: a self-flying drone taxi service.

Black taxi company Gett is expanding to B2B services in New York City, the company announced Thursday morning. Clients can now access a corporate version of the Gett mobile app in the city.

Uber Technologies, Inc. is a company that symbolizes change in the taxi industry, by using the latest technology to ease the pain of summoning a taxi.

Hailing cabs through smartphone apps is already in use in cities such as Chicago, San Francisco, and London, but a proposal to allow “e-hailing” in New York City’s yellow cabs has met with some resistance.

Two thousand yellow taxis and 18,000 proposed outer-borough taxis won’t be hitting the streets for the foreseeable future, after a judge ruled the previously passed legislation unconstitutional.