{"id":7908,"date":"2016-05-14T11:08:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T15:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=7908"},"modified":"2016-06-05T11:12:46","modified_gmt":"2016-06-05T15:12:46","slug":"uber-is-back-in-austin-with-a-workaround-via-my-reach-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/uber-is-back-in-austin-with-a-workaround-via-my-reach-around\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber is Back in Austin (with a workaround via my “reach around”:)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/td>\nLarry Chiang (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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5\/14\/16, 7:36 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
It is SATURDAY.
\nI’m working on #cs183uberAustin<\/a>
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By Larry Chiang<\/p><\/div>\n

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Inside Stanford engineering they teach us to solve real world problems.<\/div>\n
Problem.<\/span><\/div>\n
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problems. Stanford engineering teaches there are existing protocols via app interfacing. These steps solve problems with limited resources. Here the “app” is texting hospitality.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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5\/14\/16, 7:44 AM<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
#cs183uberAustin<\/a>\u00a0prequel= the\u00a0\u00a0@FSAustin<\/a>\u00a0private car service.\u00a0#ENGR145s<\/a>\u00a0{*s* is for prequel}\u00a0pic.twitter.com\/4Jma6Gjh9P<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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So me and my friend Neil Kay use Four Seasons’ car because Uber and Lyft are banned.
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Another solution is from another Austinite. Quoting @RisingSkylar for #cs183UberAustin Re https:<\/a>\/\/medium.com\/@RisingSkylar\/the-6-secret-steps-to-ride-with-lyft-or-uber-in-austin-today-d557e297f8e#.wwddq19fp<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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“You drop the pin outside the city and then call your driver with your address in the city. Call me if you have questions.”<\/div>\n
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This mimics the protocol back when airports would not allow airport pickups. You open the Uber app. Move the pin off airport. Then call the driver.<\/p>\n

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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) 5\/14\/16, 7:36 AM It is SATURDAY. I’m working on #cs183uberAustin twitter.com\/larrychiang\/st\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/iYNe9riaYG By Larry Chiang Inside Stanford engineering they teach us to solve real world problems. Problem. Screen shot credit\u00a0@RisingSkylar.\u00a0 \u00a0 problems. Stanford engineering teaches there are existing protocols via app interfacing. These steps solve problems with limited resources. Here the “app” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanford-engineering"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}