UberCab is an on demand car service that allows you to request, track and ride with ultimate convenience. Payment is cashless and hassle free.

Genius Idea: It’s not as if urban cities such as San Francisco are ever devoid of cabbies or car service drivers — they’re out there, just never when you really need a ride. And then when you do manage to hail a ride, you better be carrying cash lest you want to get the evil eye from the driver.

Young startup UberCab has set out to tackle these transportation travails one city at a time, starting in San Francisco.

UberCab is equal one part iPhone app, one part web service and one part SMS command-driven operation. Once you register for the service, you can then use either option to request car service, get a speedy turnaround pickup, track the progress of your pending ride and automatically pay via the app with the credit card you have on file.

UberCab rates are typically 1.5 times the cost of taxi fare, but the service guarantees prompt arrival within minutes and delivers a much more luxurious vehicle so you can ride in style.

What’s interesting about UberCab is that the iPhone application [iTunes link] experience extends in both directions — passenger and driver.

Here’s a breakdown of the process: you use the iPhone app to pinpoint your whereabouts on a map and request pickup. Your request is routed to the nearest available driver, who can then accept the request via the driver’s version [iTunes link] of the iPhone application. Once the driver confirms pickup, he will see your name and your rating — one through five stars, with five being highest. On arrival, the driver initiates billing and tracks the ride via the app. The driver closes out the fare via the app, at which time both driver and passenger can rate each other.

Now that we are starting to use our phones for everything, this just makes sense and I believe all ordering / payment will be done this way in the future. Let us know what you think?

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