Need a ride to the airport? How about a taxi in Arlington? Well it’s Google to the rescue! They now have a new fancy-schmancy service for those who wanna see exactly where their ride is: Google Ride Finder for Washington, DC. With location data only for Super Shuttle and Alexandria Yellow Cab, it’s not that comprehensive yet.

Then again, if you’re waiting for DC cabbies to get GPS, just pray for meters first. Me, I wanna see Metro buses and trains in real time.

This post appeared in its original form at DC Metblogs

Wayan Vota

Married, mortgaged, and soon to be a father, Wayan Vota is in the fast lane to mid-life respectability – until the day his brood finds his intimate journal of global traveling and curses him with the ever-eternal reply “I’m gonna be just like you, Dad!”