Singapore has a very high-tech taxi dispatch system. When you call for a taxi, an automated system answers and tells you where you are. Then, it asks if you'd like a taxi at that address now. All the taxicabs have mini computers with touch screens so they can accept jobs. When you call the dispacher, they tell you the taxi number that is coming to pick you up within 1 minute.
Here is the best part! It even gives you the address where you are even if you are calling from your mobile phone. It does not ask if you'd like a cab to your billing addess, rather it tells you where you are. WOW! Talk about big brother watching!
In the US, 911 tried a similar thing to locate those calling from their cell phones by putting mini GPS receivers on the phones and transmitting the coordinates when one calls 911 from a mobile number. Maybe they should come here and learn the art of triangulation!
BTW: Never call 911 and hangup the phone when the operator responds. A cop will be visiting your place as soon as he finishes his doughnut.
ciao
emre the geek
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