Singapore govt’s Uber rival slammed as ‘stunningly pointless’


  • TECH
  • Thursday, 18 Dec 2014

UTTERLY USELESS: The Taxi-Taxi@SG smartphone app displays the locations of available taxis from the tiny city-state

SINGAPORE: Controversial taxi app Uber is under fire from Brussels to Bangkok, but in Singapore a government-sponsored alternative has been panned as “stunningly pointless” by online commentators. 

The Taxi-Taxi@SG smartphone app — a rare effort by a government to compete with the likes of Uber — was launched by the Land Transport Authority (LTA). 

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