(Corrected July 6, 2013).
Anyone can be both a data input clerk and a driver, Let's say I have a data input job during the week and I drive a taxi on weekends. No problem that should concern the pubic. It is a problem that the general public should know about if someone is driving and inputing data at the same time.
At the start of every shift the Hailo driver taps an icon that commits him not to use the app unless he is standing. Then the real world comes along.
Anyone can be both a data input clerk and a driver, Let's say I have a data input job during the week and I drive a taxi on weekends. No problem that should concern the pubic. It is a problem that the general public should know about if someone is driving and inputing data at the same time.
At the start of every shift the Hailo driver taps an icon that commits him not to use the app unless he is standing. Then the real world comes along.
Input data like how much the passenger paid, call the passenger, read a map and summon it on your smart phone, all supposedly while "standing." Get real.
Then there are other bugs. The app the passenger taps gives the driver a location - most of the time an accurate one, but it's a house address even where the address does not exist in reality. Take 203
East 92nd Street, Manhattan. Good luck looking for it as the passenger stands waiting for you. He has your picture, but you are inside one of those ubiquitous look alike yellow taxis. Darn, missed him, Now what. Back up? Circle the block after you call him (while legally standing o course).. Get real once again.
then I haD A classic, The passenger gets into another one of those ubiquitous taxis after I have passed a good passenger by to get to his spot. (another make believe address BTW). Then still another classic. The app tells me the passenger is on Lexington Avenue between 118th Street and 117th Street. Trouble is, he isn't. He's on 116th Street. I call him (of course while legally standing) and he tells mr hr on Lenox Avenue, he is waiting . I imagine that he being black and male he could be having the devil's own time stopping a cab. He;s frustrated and flustered abd so in his mind he substuted Lenox for Lexington). Lots of bvery good luck with this one.
Hailo tells NYC drivers that they can increase their incomes by up to thirty percent. I very much doubt that. Then there is this little bit of this and that---
- CBS News
NTSB: Ban all driver use of cell phones
Cuomo Signs Anti Texting While Driving Law
So Hailo I say
"good luck with that - 'bye"
