The Perfect Taxi App

[U Wha]

just put the negativity aside for a minute.

A student has roughly 9 months at 20 hours a week to give this a go.

Access to resources, mentors, consultants, creative people, business people, start up funding, grants and lots of creative tech, visual communications students who work cheap and want something on their CV.   

http://www.iadt.ie/courses/?type=undergraduate     

http://www.iadt.ie/courses/user-experience-design

On top of that,  the college may allow access to a high tech creative hub with office space. 

 http://www.mediacube.ie/

What is there to lose? embrace it, no cost just support, if it comes to no end, then at least it was tried.

Drivers for Drivers

[john m]

Economists hat on once again .Your opening line {just put the negativity aside for a minute.}In your business plan what figure or cost do you put on this negativity

.How do you define this negativity in regard to applying a fiscal valuation to same .

Can you isolate the cause and cost of this negativity .

How do you intend to integrate the costs of overcoming this negativity into your cost base and how will you measure any decrease in this negativity.

 Im a taxi driver asking but your Tutors will ask similar questions when assessing your business plan .As I said if it is just a Computer Science exercise to develop an app then go ahead but if part of the course is to be either socially or economically viable these are some of the questions you must answer but the defining question asked by your Tutors might be .Is their a market need for this application and by opening up the app store I think the answer is no .I wish you well with your project but I still dont think you will convince your Tutors of its viability .Once again read back over what you have written VOLUNTARY REPS this sounds more like a political aspiration than an application to put drivers and passengers in touch with each other . I put forward an alternative project Spare Plate Food App now that has a real social application putting food on your table and allowing people to earn an extra few coins .

[The Liffey Lip]

just put the negativity aside for a minute.

A student has roughly 9 months at 20 hours a week to give this a go.

Access to resources, mentors, consultants, creative people, business people, start up funding, grants and lots of creative tech, visual communications students who work cheap and want something on their CV.   

http://www.iadt.ie/courses/?type=undergraduate     

http://www.iadt.ie/courses/user-experience-design

On top of that,  the college may allow access to a high tech creative hub with office space. 

 http://www.mediacube.ie/

What is there to lose? embrace it, no cost just support, if it comes to no end, then at least it was tried.

Drivers for Drivers

Best of luck to you either way but "negativity" is a buzzword amongst people who can't see reality. Probably better ascribed to the  nurse holding up the 50 forms she has to fill in before she can do a hand-over in San Vincenzos. A Pessimist looks down and never sees the falling branch......the Optimist looks up and misses the fucking cliff....the realist adapts to all obstacles coming at him...Walking Dead......And, yes I am a Zombie..

[john m]

The perfect taxi app is called Digitalis Erectus .It is usually between 5 and 8 inches long and afixxed to a multi directional telescopic modulation device sometimes it is fitted with a transponder which allows it to vibrate to draw attention to itself other older models come with a sonic boom to draw drivers attention .In some areas of the Capital the Digitalus Erectus comes with an aesthetically pleasing formation to attract the attention of drivers .While this is the most preferably hailing device it does vary in its operational intelligence as the OS can be variable based on the download of common sense needed to operate the Digitalis Erectus .

 Digitalis Erectus training starts at an early age usually first infants in school where Digatalis Erectus in the default protocol for signalling that you are ready to answer a question or need to take a piss.In some of the lesser informed Digatali where the operator seems to think a small movement between pocket and hip is ample to broadcast a request for a service the bolder elevated digitalis gesticulating in a flicking upward downward motion is possible the best for yielding results .

 In a recent survey carried out by the driver of a Scoda Octavia forged in the bowels of Hell .It was defined that sticking out your hand is still the best way to get a taxi in Dublin .

[Rat Catcher]

App ordering is very popular with riders. Uber, for example, has 3.5 million riders in London alone.

[Belker]

@ 'U Wha', you seem like a nice lad and I wish you the very best in getting your degree.

In theory what you are proposing makes perfect sense (but so does Communism),
but in real theory neither work at all, your paper on taxi driving is good and should be
good enough fer your lecturers/examiners to pass, but FFS don't ever even dare to
try and put it in to practice.

You cannot please an Irish taxi driver, a few examples;

We asked fer a Fare increase in 2014, we got it in 2015.
What happened ?
Everyone moaned/some staged protests because it benifited
the Dublin drivers more than the rural drivers.

We asked fer County stickers on our roofsigns, the NTA agreed.
What happened ?
All out total whinging about how we would be destitute by the cost
of these County stickers, (9Euro per pair online) !!

Door stickers were probably the greatest invention ever by the NTA
as it put a lot of part-time workers/civil servants out of the business
as they didn't want to be arriving at work with taxi door stickers on
their car, (the roofsign just clips on and off).
What happened ?
Again a total Whingefest about the 60 or 70Euro the door stickers cost,
totally ignoring the fact that they could now make an extra 100 per week !

Taxi drivers moaned fer years about the 2Euro No PUC with Hailo/Mytaxi.
Mytaxi gave it back to them in full.
What happened ?
They are started whinging about the 5 minutes free waiting time and the commission !

[U Wha]

@ 'U Wha', you seem like a nice lad and I wish you the very best in getting your degree.

In theory what you are proposing makes perfect sense (but so does Communism),
but in real theory neither work at all, your paper on taxi driving is good and should be
good enough fer your lecturers/examiners to pass, but FFS don't ever even dare to
try and put it in to practice.

You cannot please an Irish taxi driver, a few examples;

We asked fer a Fare increase in 2014, we got it in 2015.
What happened ?
Everyone moaned/some staged protests because it benifited
the Dublin drivers more than the rural drivers.

We asked fer County stickers on our roofsigns, the NTA agreed.
What happened ?
All out total whinging about how we would be destitute by the cost
of these County stickers, (9Euro per pair online) !!

Door stickers were probably the greatest invention ever by the NTA
as it put a lot of part-time workers/civil servants out of the business
as they didn't want to be arriving at work with taxi door stickers on
their car, (the roofsign just clips on and off).
What happened ?
Again a total Whingefest about the 60 or 70Euro the door stickers cost,
totally ignoring the fact that they could now make an extra 100 per week !

Taxi drivers moaned fer years about the 2Euro No PUC with Hailo/Mytaxi.
Mytaxi gave it back to them in full.
What happened ?
They are started whinging about the 5 minutes free waiting time and the commission !

Cheers for the feedback Belker. I will continue with it with no expectation other than it will help with my degree.

Funny thing is the most unexpected outcomes come from simple unexpected sources, so you never know.

I shall continue posting and accept whatever feedback that comes and let you all know the outcome one way or another.

[U Wha]

just put the negativity aside for a minute.

A student has roughly 9 months at 20 hours a week to give this a go.

Access to resources, mentors, consultants, creative people, business people, start up funding, grants and lots of creative tech, visual communications students who work cheap and want something on their CV.   

http://www.iadt.ie/courses/?type=undergraduate     

http://www.iadt.ie/courses/user-experience-design

On top of that,  the college may allow access to a high tech creative hub with office space. 

 http://www.mediacube.ie/

What is there to lose? embrace it, no cost just support, if it comes to no end, then at least it was tried.

Drivers for Drivers

Best of luck to you either way but "negativity" is a buzzword amongst people who can't see reality. Probably better ascribed to the  nurse holding up the 50 forms she has to fill in before she can do a hand-over in San Vincenzos. A Pessimist looks down and never sees the falling branch......the Optimist looks up and misses the fucking cliff....the realist adapts to all obstacles coming at him...Walking Dead......And, yes I am a Zombie..

Thanks Lips

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

From a driver`s perspective, the app need not make a profit, simply enough to cover operating costs and annual audit/revenue obligations. Efficient and secure cc charging and payment to driver in a timely fashion and set up with the Registrar of Friendly Societies.

[mercenary for hire]

How about an app that destroys it's records every couple of months...I don't mean GPS locations but the other stuff we don't want.

[U Wha]

From a driver`s perspective, the app need not make a profit, simply enough to cover operating costs and annual audit/revenue obligations. Efficient and secure cc charging and payment to driver in a timely fashion and set up with the Registrar of Friendly Societies.

I agree, thanks for the feedback.

[U Wha]

How about an app that destroys it's records every couple of months...I don't mean GPS locations but the other stuff we don't want.

No reason why that couldn't happen if drivers wanted it. Maybe just the specific info relating to drivers, non driver specific stats may be useful for predicting trends in workflow year to year. This info could be made available to drivers. Thanks for the input Merc.

[Belker]

From a driver`s perspective, the app need not make a profit, simply enough to cover operating costs and annual audit/revenue obligations. Efficient and secure cc charging and payment to driver in a timely fashion and set up with the Registrar of Friendly Societies.

How much would the CEO of such an app be paid annually ?
Taking in to consideration what charity CEO's are paid per year.

Or we could hire someone like John M as CEO on a Trummer
a week and see where that would get us !

[Belker]

How about an app that destroys it's records every couple of months...I don't mean GPS locations but the other stuff we don't want.

No reason why that couldn't happen if drivers wanted it. Maybe just the specific info relating to drivers, non driver specific stats may be useful for predicting trends in workflow year to year. This info could be made available to drivers. Thanks for the input Merc.

There is a reason why this could Not happen, it's called 'Revenue' / 'Court orders for Disclosure'.
Once a court order is made fer Disclosure, then anyone or any company failing to comply is in 'Contempt of court',
if held in contempt of court then someone (prob the CEO) will be jailed until such time as the contempt of court is purged
and all relevant documentation is revealed to the Court/Revenue.

[Belker]

To add, every company must keep a full record of all it's transactions fer some amount of years.
When I worked in a Bookies, it used to be fer 5 years, which was a proper pain in de hole keeping
every docket and every payout fer a full five years.