New York – Ford Motor Co. is bringing its crowd-sourced shuttle service Chariot to New York City in August, marking its biggest expansion since being purchased less than a year ago.
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The service started in San Francisco and then expanded to Austin, Texas. It acts as an on-demand bus service that allows users to book a seat using an app.
It will have two initial routes at $4 per ride, but commuters have the opportunity to crowd-source new routes. If there is enough demand, Chariot will start dispatching shuttles to that area.
The Detroit automaker plans to have 60 vehicles, each with a 14-person occupancy, operating in New York by fall.
Crowd source from BP to Williamsburg and they will be plenty busy
Cool. Sort of like the “public cars” we have in Latin America.
These already exist in NYC neighborhoods unofficially. I see them picking up and dropping off people along Flatbush Avenue from downtown Brooklyn up towards Prospect Park.
This should run on the old X-29 Express Bus Route which ran on Coney Island Avenue to Manhattan serving the heimesha olam as well as hundreds of others.