Doesn’t NY/nyc have laws for car services that uses set route pricing ?
Only reason I remember this is a book I read where that was the one main people occupation and he liked it better than a taxi because customers didn’t feel like they were getting ripped off when in a traffic jam and such and the tipping was better
But many people didn’t know about the service so his place only worked for social service/low income programs so grandma didn’t go bankrupt going to the doctors every week or two