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New taxi App

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  • #32
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Kolido wrote: »
    Will there be an app for taxi drivers to check who they are picking up!

    Imagine that!

    "Hi can you take me to Phibsboro please?"
    "Nah mate. I've read your boards posts, you seem like a tw@t. Get the car behind."


  • #33
    kingtut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭kingtut


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    Imagine that!

    "Hi can you take me to Phibsboro please?"
    "Nah mate. I've read your boards posts, you seem like a tw@t. Get the car behind."

    I almost spat out my coffee :D


  • #34
    MOH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,472 ✭✭✭MOH


    Dravokivich wrote: »
    Haha, just read some of the reviews:
    I find this app very useful. I was in a shopping centre earlier and forgot what kind of car I was driving so I entered my taxi plate number and lo and behold my reg number and make and model of car was in front of me, It even showed me a picture of myself in case I forgot what I looked like.

    Just checked the app out, it's dire. I really hope they got a student on work experience to design this thing in house, because if they paid any serious money for it it's a waste.

    First thing it does is bring you to a settings screen, kept flagging my name as not having been entered even though it was. Eventually realised this wasn't the real problem - while you'd expect saving your details to return you to the main screen, you have to do that manually.

    Search for a random taxi, details come up. Click the History button - 'no saved search data'.

    Leaving aside the fact that there's nothing stopping me picking random taxis and reporting them. At the very least it should record your location when you make a report, that way there's some chance of verifying you were actually in the vicinity of the taxi. Plus then if you choose to mail the details to a friend and your location data is included, if you do end up missing or murdered or whatever, there's a helpful starting point for finding out what happened.


  • #35
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    MOH wrote: »
    Plus then if you choose to mail the details to a friend and your location data is included, if you do end up missing or murdered or whatever, there's a helpful starting point for finding out what happened.

    They could call that the 'Avenge My Death' feature.

    Pretty hand alright.


  • #36
    cournioni
    Moderators, Regional North East Moderators Posts: 12,742 Mod ✭✭✭✭cournioni


    Last time I used a taxi app I got into a taxi with a driver that said the following after another taxi cut in front of him:
    "Fcuking black bastard"
    After a long awkward silence in the taxi he said the following (I kid you not):
    "Sorry, I'm not racist, I just hate them all".

    :confused:


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