It's called Uber. Essentially, instead of having to bother with hailing a cab or going through the pain-in-the-butt of calling one (since you have to find the number and whatnot), you can just go to the website on your smartphone (which I have decided that you're getting because you promised) and set up where you are and where you're going. Also, as you'll notice, you can have a credit card loaded onto your account so you don't have to worry about having cash or looking for an ATM.
It is slightly more expensive than a cab (there is a minimum $15 fare and a high base fare compared to regular cabs), but you can also use Uber to find a regular cab for you (so you get the credit card payment advantage as well, but you pay what you would ordinarily pay). Also, there is no need to tip an Uber car driver (for a regular cab, they automatically include a 20% tip, which at most will be $3 or $4 extra). If your firm reimburses you for travel home after 8 pm and doesn't have some sort of voucher system or car service that they prefer that you use (and it sounds as though they don't), it doesn't matter that it's a little more expensive because you get reimbursed.
Full disclosure: I did just see this story in the Post today. This is obviously very tragic, and I don't want to take anything away from that, but the plus side is that, because she used Uber instead of a random cab on the street, she didn't need to worry about trying to figure out who the perpetrator was because she had an electronic receipt from the service that included the driver's name and photograph. On the other side of the scale, Joe at work uses it all the time and swears by it. Also, I've heard other people in New York rave about it.
In other news:
Rand Paul spoke at CPAC and called John McCain "stale and moss-covered." Well, not exactly, but still.
I don't really know much about this stuff, but it seems interesting.
This is happening.
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