I&#x27;m currently programmer nomad-ing in Uruguay and have been <i></i>delighted<i></i> with Easy Taxi. I don&#x27;t know if all the cabs use it, but tons of them do and it works just as well as Lyft&#x2F;Uber did for me in Seattle. Real-time updates of location, ratings, instant confirmation of fare acceptance... I say I want a cab and pretty much get one within 5 minutes no matter where or when I am.<p>It&#x27;s all the same yellow and black taxies but everyone has a cell phone mounted to their dash and.. it just works. I&#x27;ll never ever understand why taxies in the US haven&#x27;t done this. Had they, I probably wouldn&#x27;t have switched _exclusively_ to using Lyft.