Nihon Kotsu as the "Prince of Taxis." The company was founded as a sole proprietorship in 1928 and reorganized as a stock company in December 1945. It began as a limousine operator and expanded to taxi service in 1940. NK operates the most popular taxi hailing mobile application in Japan, Japan Taxi. Toyota invested 500 million yen in the app in 2017, followed by a second 7.5 billion investment in 2018. Tokyo Musen, a major rival of Nihon Kotsu in the Tokyo area, joined the app later that year in an effort to counterbalance foreign rivals such as Uber and Didi Chuxing.
Car App Car App Car apps widen the spectrum of driver abilities. Third-party software for cars unlocks or provides the features which built-in car apps lack or block: data input while moving, traffic jams. Both Android and iOS offer software solutions to connect a smartphone with a car. CarPlay and Android Auto apps transmit the home screen of any Android or iOS smartphone to the car built-in display. Therefore, apps installed on the connected smartphone will become available on car screen. Sometimes car apps require additional hardware which plugs into the OBD port to record, collect and provide the data about engine