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Zum is a startup that aims to bring high-tech solutions to school busing.
The company signed a $27 million contract to operate almost half the district’s bus routes for three years .
Zum has a mobile app for parents and families that provides real-time GPS tracking for all of their buses.
After Monday morning , buses weren't showing up for the first day of school in Howard County , Washington .
Parents noticed that the drivers didn’t really seem to know where they were.
Zum had to fly 71 drivers in from Spokane and Seattle to handle these routes.
The company’s CEO, Ritu Narayan , said he was “clear-eyed about a national and statewide driver shortage”.
Is this a place where technology has made an improvement? It makes me think of my own experience riding Miss Gloria ’s bus to elementary school every day .
She didn’t need a tablet to say whether or not the students that got on the bus were supposed to be there.
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