With these sites, on-the-road executives can book meetings on customizable calendars, retrieve crucial numbers from an address book, send e-mail and even synchronize with a PalmPilot.
Yet Uber Technologies advertises itself as "the safest rides on the road" and executives tout Uber as "safer than a taxi".
"You have to look five years down the road," the executive said.
"We know that the greater impact of this will come three to six months down the road," this executive said.
The Centre for Road Safety executive director, Bernard Carlon, said he often saw people riding bikes without a helmet.
When asked whether he agreed that Utah's chronic homeless population was nearing "functional zero", Road Home executive director Matt Minkevitch replied: "I would differ with that perspective".
"If we don't get this business model right, it's going to be a lot harder to fix down the road," the executive said.
I met Jack Hinshelwood, the Road's executive director, and he told me: "It's important to be sensitive about how the road is developed, so as not to damage the culture.
Allan Steinfeld, a longtime New York Road Runners executive, recalls being told by Japanese federation leaders in the 1980s that Japanese runners would not compete in the New York race because it could not be broadcast live in Japan at a reasonable hour.
Down the road, Chief Executive Dan Steere aims to sell monthly subscriptions to individual drivers.
Lennon was the first choice of the Carrow Road chief executive David McNally to replace Chris Hughton.
