….Avego’s a web/SMS/GPS-powered iPhone app that turns your car into a taxi and your cellie into its meter, setting you up to make 30ยข a mile (and $1 for the first) off those too cheap for cabs and too smart for MUNI. Launch the app out on the road, and Avego will rec potential passengers along your route for you to accept
or reject; pick up a fare, and he’ll tell you a pin #, which both starts the Paypal transaction and pops up his picture on your phone — if it doesn’t match, you’re being duped, so throw scalding coffee in his face…