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World Moto, Inc.
Mar 14, 2016 10:21 AM
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Moto-Meter(TM) Ready to Become the New Standard for the $500 Billion Motorcycle Taxi Industry .
The Moto-Meter with smartphone app - the world's only portable motorcycle taximeter. Image grab from …
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - Mar 14, 2016) - World Moto, Inc. (OTC: FARE) (BERLIN: WM7) (BERLIN: A1J8SY) ("World Moto" or the "Company"), a leader in advanced solutions for motorcycle taxis and on-demand transport, today announced that it is in communication with popular ride hailing app services to provide a competitive advantage for their brands in the accelerating battle to professionalize the world's motorcycle taxi fleets.
The past several weeks have seen announcements by major established players in the ride hailing industry detailing plans to expand services into the motorcycle taxi space. For example, Douglas Ma, Uber's head of Asia-Pacific expansion, described UberMOTO's launch in Bangkok as "the first time we're doing it in any market in the world, so our hope is to develop it and innovate it." The same service was launched a few weeks later in India. This pivotal and increasing focus on the industry by very well funded and recognized brands is establishing new battlefields in the fight to reshape the global personal transport sector. World Moto, as the supplier of key products and services to this industry, expects sizable benefits from the increased opportunities resulting from the new competitive landscape.
World Moto's flagship product, the Moto-Meter™, allows easy integration with smartphone applications, and comments from operators as well as internal research have indicated that the Moto-Meter™ offers distinct advantages to taxi app operators who incorporate it into their platforms. While traditional smartphone taxi apps are fine for e-hailing to remote locations, they suffer from a strong customer preference to simply "hop and go" when exiting from mass transit or anytime a motorcycle taxi is waiting on the street. In the latter case, the Moto-Meter™ can communicate with an app on the customer's phone and allow them many of the features normally associated with an app without even needing to remove the phone from their pocket.
Other reasons stated for the Moto-Meter™ is that it allows app services to automatically exclude drivers from their system who are currently engaged in fares outside of their platforms, offering faster response to customer hails. This is a serious consideration on a motorcycle, where the driver requires both hands to control the vehicle and is often unable to press a button to reject a fare in a timely fashion. Also mentioned is the Moto-Meter's ability to allow drivers to visually see incoming hail requests. In noisy, street level environments it is often not possible to hear a mobile phone, and even vibrations are often not felt. By mounting a ruggedized Moto-Meter which is impervious to road dust, insects and water, these issues can be eliminated leading to better safety, service and increased customer satisfaction.
"Motorcycle taxis are the most numerous form of taxis on Earth, and while the scale of this new battlefield is enormous, so are the potential rewards," said Paul Giles, CEO of World Moto.
Giles continued, "The professionalization of this industry, already underway, will only increase in the future, and the tremendous size of the sector and number of disparate regional markets, similar to retail, allows room for multiple winners. The Moto-Meter offers tangible benefits for every one of them, and it is only a matter of time before this technology becomes ubiquitous. Until then, any leverage that these operators can achieve in a city may mean the difference between becoming the leading service vs. handing victory to a competitor, and the Moto-Meter will give them a distinct advantage."
