Black cabs beat Uber on speed in taxi races

摘要

London Bridge to Trafalgar Square. You take an Uber, I'll take a black cab. Ready, set go! A group of researchers led by Anastasios Noulas at Lancaster University, UK, raced taxi services on 29 journeys around London while developing a taxi price comparison app called OpenStreetCab. One researcher hailed a taxi from the Uber app while another took a traditional black cab to the same location, with the route left up to the driver. Black