Thursday, July 25, 2013
A
third-year
Waterloo
electrical
engineering
student
is
developing
a
smartphone
app
to
connect
New
Delhi
women
to
women-driven
taxis.
Sujay
Arora,
a
co-founder
of
Caboom, grew
up
in
New
Delhi,
a
city
where
recent
public
protests
have
raised
awareness
about
violence
against
women. Caboom
is
working
on
creating
a
new
smartphone
app
that Arora
hopes
will
make
women
in
India’s
largest
city
safer.
The
tool
will
allow
female
travelers
to
book
the
closest
women-driven
cabs
using
their
smartphone.
It
also
sends
information
about
the
taxi
and
its
driver
to
family
and
friends
before
the
woman
gets
into
the
cab.
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