Maybe Taxis Won’t Not Stop Now

Stacy-Marie Ishmael talks to WNYC New Tech City host Manoush Zomorodi about apps that hail cabs for you in NYC and why, despite slow growth and popularity, they are very promising for minority communities, specifically, as Ms Ismael says, “brown people”: “It takes away the possibility that you’re not going to want to take me somewhere because you think I live in the outer boroughs or you’re discriminating on the basis that you think I’m going to rob you, or you think I’m going to be committing some random act of vandalism based on your profile of me.”

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