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If you’re in Paris and need a ride, you can use your smartphone to reserve a chauffeur-driven car from services like Chauffeur-Privé, whose app includes a map that shows where the available cars are. Once you’ve selected a car and entered your destination, the app gives you the price up front and lets you pay with a single click.











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Willie Jones is an associate editor at IEEE Spectrum. In addition to editing and planning daily coverage, he manages several of Spectrum's newsletters and contributes regularly to the monthly Big Picture section that appears in the print edition.
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