Irish Taxi Forum
Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: Belker on March 19, 2018, 05:48:00 am
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It's St Patrick's day in Cork and I'm out at work since 11am.
The Parade has most of the city center closed off and I'm working mainly the southern suburbs on MyTaxi jobs bringing customers in to town fer the Parade or to the city pubs fer the big rugby match.
By 12 noon I know exactly every street which is closed off and every 'Rat-run' that is open to get my customers as close as possible to their destination.
A lot, actually most have pre-set their destination, so Google maps on MyTaxi tells me where to bring them and I just ignore it fer the first hour or so, then Google maps starts to annoy me and I say to a few of my customers in the cab; "Google maps is telling me where to go, but Google maps doesen't know that most of the city streets are shut off fer the parade, I've been working these city streets fer the past Forty years and I will get you as close as I can but it won't be the Google maps route.
Would you rather the Google maps route or My route ?".
Feedback was 100%, "We'll take your route please Mr Taximan".
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I was lucky yesterday, most of my jobs kept me out of city centre, so no google route problems.
If I am stuck when a punter gives me an address, I look it up on google maps to get a fix on it and make a point of turning it off once I know where it is.
I mightn't always know the address but once I get a fix on it I don't need a map.
It annoys me the number of passengers that have their phones on with google maps and watch the way you drive compared to the route on their phone and then make comments if you veer off route according to the phone even though they haven't a clue where they are.
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You can turn off google maps.
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was there a parade ?
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Google is usually good at current traffic/restrictions. I tend to think in terms of the most direct route whereas Google will think outside the box to find the fastest route taking traffic, speed limits, number of turns, etc into account. Following Google, or at least giving the client the option, can get better fares. Foe example, I got a mytaxi job from Coolock to Ashington on St. Patrick's day. My instinct was to go through Cabra but when I asked Google she suggested the M50 so I presented the client with both options (stressing Google's recommendation) and she decided we should heed Google's advice. End result I get at least a tenner more than I would have without Google's interjection and both the client and I save 2 minutes* of our lives.
* data supplied by Google.
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Got an Mytaxi jobby from the Airport to Dunleary on Friday afternoon.Good job for a change.But Google and customer wanted to go M50.I warned her it would cost more but she says go ahead the company is paying for it.Then we get to Pottery Road and she is questioning why my meter said 68 and her Taxi to the Airport was 50 something via M50.Told her I didn't know why it was different and she can query it with Mytaxi.Google maps aren't really working in the customer's interest most of the time.
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Over €8 freight for c.1.2 hours... not to mention free waiting time. It's not cheap!
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We're getting robbed alright.Deffo room for some cheaper competitors in the pay per job arena.The 12% commission is a kick in the nuts.Didn't even get a tip FFS!
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You'd nearly be happy not to get a tip. mytaxi would have 12% of that too!
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if you open oogle flaps and press the route option.
imput dublin airport to dunlaoghire, does it not correctly indicate the port tunnel route?
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On mine right now it shows port tunnel as the blue line(optimum route) but on Friday afternoon at 12.41pm it said M50 as the blue line.I think it was a time Vs distance thing.I should add she wanted to go the fastest route not the cheapest.
Maybe the traffic was bad through town?The public take Google maps route as always the best route.
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GMAPS caters for the private motorist. It knows nothing about Taxis, bus Lanes, contraflows etc.
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You can turn off google maps.
I hit 'Mute' on that Google maps Bitch the very First day she started up.
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Someone on here once said; "Google maps should be compulsory fer Taxi drivers".
If that were the case and clients believed Google maps (who love the motorways)
over the expertise of the Taxi driver, then our income would be up about 10% per annum !
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Did you jump ship also with Premier Taxis ?
I see a few of yer drivers have joined another Taxi company.
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Someone on here once said; "Google maps should be compulsory fer Taxi drivers".
If that were the case and clients believed Google maps (who love the motorways)
over the expertise of the Taxi driver, then our income would be up about 10% per annum !
... and clients would still get where they are going, generally faster.
What's notable in the mytaxi implementation of Google Navigation is that she never tells you to make a U Turn, sometimes directing you several miles out of your way to avoid the same. I wonder if that's merely down to poor implementation on mytaxi's part or if it's the only option within the API. The latter would suggest that autonomous vehicles that rely on Google Navigation APIs won't risk U Turns until us gobsh!tes teach them how to do so safely.
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The No U-turns on the MyTaxi google maps really pisses me off.
It is after catching me out a good few times, just last weekend a job popped up fer Sunview terrace (1.2 km),
I knew that Sunview terrace was 50 meters behind me but the map was telling me to go forward and loop
around through a few housing estates to get there.
The Garmin Sat-nav allows U-turns, so should the flippin the all great Google.
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why don't you just disregard what its showing you and just take the u-turn?
i know in google maps that if you deviate from the suggested blue line it will auto correct a new optimum route on the fly to your destination.
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On the above occasion I obviousely did do a U-turn to get the 50 meters to my fare.
But sometimes the address comes up as 'N 20' or similar and you have no option
but only to follow the Blue line.
The 'Blue line' really should be Yellow and then we like 'Dorothy' could follow it !
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Of course we make U Turns in practice, the question being why it isn't programmed to facilitate the same. It does have an adverse side effect insofar as it computes highly inaccurate ETAs which are transmitted to the client. As Korky previously noted, you could pull off a rank for a job only to find the client cancels before you get a chance to make a U Turn because he's told you're 14 minutes away when, in fact, once you make the U turn you are 2 minutes and 20 seconds away.
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Google maps doesn't recognise taxis can use buslanes, or that taxis can make certain left or right turns or certain streets. Its built for the general public.
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Bus lanes are irrelevant at night. Not recognising access to various streets does cause issues with ETAs given to mytaxi clients up above in Dublin. For example, I accepted a job from the Gate Theatre to Santry one evening. When I drove on to Frederick Street North the ETA changed from 3 minutes to 12 minutes or something like that and the client (understandably) cancelled.
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I nearly got caught with that again last night, I accepted a job fer The Burroughs which I knew was 200 yards behind me up on the top of Maryboro hill, it said 2.2KM and 7 mins to get there, I pulled a U-turn and it changed to 2 mins, thankfully the customer didn't cancel.
Can MyTaxi do something about Google maps ?
It's FOOKIN TERRIBLE !
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I think someone already said it but U turns are some of the most dangerous moves to complete on the road.It's not unusual in Dublin city for cyclists to be overtaking on the outside.Used to be motorcycles.They won't encourage us to take them.
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If you use Google Navigation through it's own interface you can decide whether you want to avoid U Turns or not via settings. Hence either mytaxi has programmed it's API requests to avoid U Turns or there is no such option for third party (API) access. The latter would obviously suit Google in harvesting data for it's autonomous vehicle projects.
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Bumpy...
Last Friday I got a Mytaxi job to Portmarnock from Eccles street around 5pm.As I was watching the blue route on the integrated navigation for about a minute it tried to send me up through Finglas then across the M50.Had I taken that route it would have put maybe 15 or 20 euros on the fare.Anyone else notice these strange blue lines?
As soon as I hit Drumcondra it chose a more reasonable route.Could easily end up in court over something like that.
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It’s fairly sad that ye have to follow the blue line to a job.
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I love the in-app navigation on mytaxi and Uber. You don't need to look at the screen at all, voice directions with no need to press any buttons, it doesn't get any easier than that. Be Jaysus, I remember the days where you could be driving around in the pitch black having been told no more than it's 26 yards past lamppost number 304... the kids of today don't know they're born, the way it's going the cars will be driving themselves before too long.
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I don't use a blue line but it's considered to be the optimal route by passengers and drivers worldwide.Could get a bloke in trouble.
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There was a mytaxi prebooking of Firhouse to town a couple of weeks ago at 40 kilometres!
The best route was M50 to M1 and into town that way.
I'm not sure the punter would appreciate the fare though!
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It’s fairly sad that ye have to follow the blue line to a job.
If the address given is 'N 40' or something 'as Gaelige' that ya don't understand,
then ya have no option only to follow the Blue line.
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It’s fairly sad that ye have to follow the blue line to a job.
If the address given is 'N 40' or something 'as Gaelige' that ya don't understand,
then ya have no option only to follow the Blue line.
There's always an option... There is big fucking red X to reject the job
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That's all 'Hunky-Dorey' to be hitting the big red X of a weekend night when the work is plentiful,
but of a midweek night when the streets have dried up at 3.30am then ya will take any scraps
that are going ! Blue line, Red line, Yellow Brick line ! Any Fookin Line !!
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It’s fairly sad that ye have to follow the blue line to a job.
If the address given is 'N 40' or something 'as Gaelige' that ya don't understand,
then ya have no option only to follow the Blue line.
If the proper address don’t show on your phone such as N20 or whatever just don’t accept it.
Why take a job when you don’t know where it is ?
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It’s fairly sad that ye have to follow the blue line to a job.
If the address given is 'N 40' or something 'as Gaelige' that ya don't understand,
then ya have no option only to follow the Blue line.
If the proper address don’t show on your phone such as N20 or whatever just don’t accept it.
Why take a job when you don’t know where it is ?
Because it's 4 in de morning of a Tuesday, with nothing else happening and the job is 300 meters away !
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It’s fairly sad that ye have to follow the blue line to a job.
If the address given is 'N 40' or something 'as Gaelige' that ya don't understand,
then ya have no option only to follow the Blue line.
If the proper address don’t show on your phone such as N20 or whatever just don’t accept it.
Why take a job when you don’t know where it is ?
Because it's 4 in de morning of a Tuesday, with nothing else happening and the job is 300 meters away !
It makes the job a lot safer when you know where yer picking up.
I wouldn’t care how quiet it is at that hour of the morning.
That’s where experience comes in driving a taxi.
Just like if a pisshead sticks up his paw to flag you down it don’t mean you have to stop for him.
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Let you be my 'Teacher' Deboy, Let your Experience guide me !
From a person who couldn't find his way up to Cork airport,
let you explain to me how to drive my Cab ?
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Let you be my 'Teacher' Deboy, Let your Experience guide me !
From a person who couldn't find his way up to Cork airport,
let you explain to me how to drive my Cab ?
Prick
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Sorry Deboy, I'm always biting ur head off, don't be taking it too serious.