I had a friend who wanted to start a coin counting by mail business. The customer mails the coins in a flat rate package and then you count them and in exchange the people get a gift card to a local restaurant.
I had a friend who wanted to start a coin counting by mail business. The customer mails the coins in a flat rate package and then you count them and in exchange the people get a gift card to a local restaurant.
“Uber for kids to go to school” mf was reinventing the school bus
I mean, Uber was reinventing taxis, so…
Not realy, they where artificially lowering the cost of a fair (for a while). They did so by investors funding it, drivers not having the propper insurance and depending on location they themself breaking labour laws.
There is a version of this called HopSkipDrive. It is an Uber for kids. Like a working parent who needs to get their child picked up from school and to a piano lesson. They have lots of extras to ensure kids are safe, like background checks, communication to the parents while the kids are in the car. I haven’t used it, but I know people who have and love it.
There are plenty of places where school buses don’t run.
In rural areas, you only are “entitled” to a bus ride if it’s more than X miles from home to school. In urban areas, they may just say, “take a city bus.”
When I was in school in rural Illinois there was (some years) a “town bus” that drove around in town to transport students. Parents had to pay for that service. The kids who lived out of town got free bus service.