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by andy_ppp 2403 days ago
I loved doing OR for my final project at Uni, it was great solving the travelling salesman problem for a taxi network routing it to the correct people and picking people up in realtime around an imaginary map of points. I remember thinking as I took a cab into halls from the station "wouldn't this be amazing if I could have a device that told me exactly where each cab was at any point and maybe hook into the satnav somehow". In 1999 [1].

[1] https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C5CHFA_enGB720GB720&sxsrf...

1 comments

talk about having the right idea at the wrong time!
Ah, I would never in a million years been enough of a shitbag to build Uber so it's a moot point. But still.