Kibosh

This service is a not-for-profit service in coordination with the municipal authorities for partial funding. The service operates as a Taxi-Cab pickup service for drivers in suburban and rural areas.

When the Kibosh service receives a call from its UBER or LYFT accounts, it dispatches two drivers in a vehicle supplied by one of the hired drivers (like a personal vehicle) or by one licensed and registered by the agency; and that has an UBER account.

This service can even be used by a designated driver to a party, when an app is developed, to do ride cost sharing (e.g. Tip the designated driver). How the service operates, app, company, or service otherwise is once the vehicle arrives at the establishment, the second driver steps out and takes the keys from the patron and both the cab driver, the patron, and the second driver in the patron’s vehicle go in a caravan to the patron’s home. The vehicle is left in the patron’s driveway and the taxi drivers are paid the second driver hops in the cab with the first driver to the next call. Costs are cheaper than a cab, since some of the prices are subsidized by the local municipality trying to reduce drunk driving. 

Summary:

• Taxi service that operates at night to reduce drunk driving incidents (Target-Zero)
• Non-profit partially paid by municipal funding for the service
• Start-up costs are phone number, website, UBER account, 4-Door New-ish vehicle, insurance, two drivers, and a dispatcher.
• Customer base is sourced by canvassing Night Clubs and Bars and notifying bar owners and bar servers of the new service and number to call.
• Drivers arrive to a location, pick up the patron and vehicle, ferry back to the patron’s address, get paid by UBER or some online payment (no cash if possible).

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