Eight cabs that hear about a closure first

Rahul owns eight cabs that do airport runs in Bengaluru. He drives one of them himself. The road to the airport is full of surprises: metro works, a closed flyover, a lane shut near Hebbal. One closure can make a passenger miss a flight, and then comes a bad review. Rahul hears about them on the radio, if he hears at all. With xMap Flows, Rahul built Magpie. Whenever a road closes near one of his five pickup spots, Magpie keeps one alert for each road, writes a plain heads-up naming the road, sends it to all eight drivers, and puts the day's closures on a map. At four in the morning, Magpie spots a closure on the Hebbal flyover. Every driver knows before the first pickup and leaves ten minutes early. Not one passenger has missed a flight this month, and his rating is back to four point eight. Rahul still listens to the radio. Just not for the traffic.

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