My Fare Share: Taxi Carpooling

The Roaring Robots present: The awesome and mind-blowing idea of a taxi carpooling technology.
This is a research project for the First Lego League. The challenge for this year was to find a problem with today's transportation and come up with a solution with technology.

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[DaltonRobotics]

this video is so genius that i cant speak.

[bluemoondiadochi]

it's a great idea, made my day!

in this economic situation, it could be a great way to have a service and save some money in the same time!

and i bet rush-hour people would really appreciate it!

... but stick through it, be persistant, most of the best ideas in history had been met with resistance when first attempted, but once there, proved to be priceless!

[DRTFreeMarkets]

In 2004, Texxi was invented:

Fleet routing is typically approached from a command centre perspective. But one new application takes an approach that's a cross between Yahoo Groups and CraigsList.

We use a DRT Exchange to get the most number of people in the vehicles.

We do this by SMS or smartphone app as can be seen in our various videos and patent pending application.

[salexk]

HOLY GUACAMOLE! I can't believe how good this idea is. It's totally mind-blowing and awesome! You are so good at this and i cant believe it! You should be famous! If you aren't I will be shocked because you are so smart! You are also good at making awesome and mind-blowing ideas, guys!