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MarkPNeyer
Uber would not be in violation of this patent. It is based upon the concept of drivers offering rides, which is not how Uber works.

Disclosure: I am not a Lawyer, I work for Uber, and I have been known to hate on software patents.

adestefan
It doesn't matter since the patent expired in 2001.
olitebra
What I have tried to say with this post is that it is execution that matters - maybe this patent had a brilliant idea in it, but it was never implemented.
jerf
Tech matters too; the necessary IT infrastructure to pull this off was theoretically technologically feasible, but not economically feasible. You couldn't have run a profitable service that could have serviced those costs until you were very, very large already.
idonthack
Not surprising. It isn't a difficult concept.
[dead] HanPhamMN
I am actually a lawyer based in Minnesota.

Prepare for lawsuits bitches!

Aloisius
I'm shocked, just shocked that at the height of demand-responsive transportation system research that someone would have patented one!