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Uber has been in the spotlight recently for all the wrong reasons. First comments made by one of its executives landed it into hot water, then there was an alleged rape by a driver in India, and all this went on alongside the various battles that Uber fights with regulators on an almost daily basis. Still the company goes strong and is aggressively continuing with its international expansion. At home, the city of Chicago and New York City are now both looking to develop their own application that lets people hail cabs like they would call a car with Uber.

The city says that while Uber only represents a couple of hundred cabs, its new application will let people access the entire 7000-string cab fleet of the city. This new app will be used for dispatching cabs throughout the city, and with the entire fleet at its disposal, availability will certainly be better than Uber on particularly busy nights.

Benjamin Kallos, a NYC City Council member, floated the idea that the Big Apple should develop an application that lets people “e-hail” a cab from the more than 20,000 on the streets of NYC.

Regulators still haven’t voted on this idea so it might take some time, while in Chicago regulators are likely to seek third party developers soon to produce the application that can fit this particular need of the city and its residents. No word as yet on when this program will go live in both Chicago and New York.

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