"It's definitely a messenger's market now," he said, adding that the Internet companies "are beginning to take all the best riders."

The journey now takes riders beyond the Moon, to the very edge of our universe.

I ask only one thing, that we take only riders and shpugas.

It took riders as long as half an hour just to get on the platform to wait for a train.

The second half of the ride took riders through dark tunnels and icy caverns.

The coaster emerges and takes riders on a series of 360-degree loops at 63 miles an hour.

A second conveyor belt takes riders up the final drop within a tunnel.

Two covered (dark) slides take riders for a plunge into the lake.

The care-A-van takes riders directly to the address they desire.

But cabs are also required to take single riders wherever they want to go.