ride hailing
Requesting a driver
Ride hailing is the practice of summoning a car and driver through a smartphone app rather than flagging down a taxi or calling a dispatcher.
Services like Uber and Lyft have made ride hailing ubiquitous in urban areas: I'll just ride-hail to the airport.
The term distinguishes app-based transportation from traditional taxi services and ridesharing, where passengers share planned trips.
- uberSlang for extreme
- driverVehicle operator
- driver's licenseOfficial driving permit
- pickupSmall open-bed truck
- destinationIntended arrival point
door to door · app · surge · surge pricing · dynamic pricing · cashless payment · fare · passenger · curbside · rating · ETA · wait time · dispatch · carpool · rideshare · smartphone · arrival · dropoff
- phone activitiestexting, calling, scrolling, browsing, gaming
- gig workgig work, gig worker, side hustle, freelancer, freelancing
- transportationcar, bus, airplane, train, plane
- green transportelectric car, electric vehicles, electric bus, EVs, electric bike
- Self-Driving Carsself-driving car, self-driving, robotaxi, robotaxis, robo-taxi
- shared transitcar share, carpool, carpooling, carshare, rideshare
ride hailingself-driving
Operating without human control
car ownership · vehicle ownership · walking · cycling · biking
ride hailingwalking
Locomotion on foot
cycling · biking · public transit · mass transit · bus
ride, hailing, rides, rode, ridden, riding, rider, riders, hail