The new app will allow you to bypass surge pricing and Uber’s $2 cab-hailing fee.
One of New York’s largest providers of taxi cab tech is teaming with a startup to take on Uber. Queens-based Creative Mobile Technologies, which provides the ubiquitous credit card readers and Taxi TV monitors to half of New York’s cabs, has inked a partnership with Arro to hail yellow and green cabs via smartphone. Arro’s app will not charge the $2 fee that Uber currently tacks on when customers hail a taxi—and will be devoid of Uber’s surge pricing.
