New York City: A lab for Taxi Experiments

Everybody wins, could be the motto for the plan Mayor Michel Blommberg requested to the TLC (Taxi & Limousine Coomission) to experiment with taxi stands in  New York's city streets. The taxi "group rides" will start the pilot program this Friday February 26Th, 2010. The firms involved in the case studies were based in GPS collected data and the goal is to decrease traffic during peak hours, which means less toxic emissions, also taxi riders will save money, and more important for others,  like the taxi drivers, would be the translation for more money per group rides.

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Everybody could be a Taxiwalker and get paid for it, but where is the meter?

Is a fact and the device exist in Japan, what a great way to help people save money while you exercise, and it came as a mandate from the government, which is  enforcing some sort of anti-obese law,  so now some firms can get penalized if their employees between 40 to 74 years old gain some extra pounds. If waistlines for men exceed 83.75 centimeters (33.5 inches) and 88.50 centimeters (35.4 inches) for women, they are said to be suffering from the 'metabolic syndrome'. The companies in an effort to avoid penalization are encouraging employees to stop taking cabs and walk more by paying them per any mile traveled from home to work  based on  your  "meter" information, and for this you will need a Taxiwalker meter, already available in Japan.