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NYC Wants Ideas For "Taxi Technology 2.0"
An anonymous reader writes "New York City is soliciting ideas from the public about possible technology improvements for its 13,000+ fleet of taxis. TLC (the city agency in charge of cabs) is 'seek[ing] input and information on ways to enhance the technology systems in each taxicab for the benefit of passengers, drivers and owners alike.'"
Seriously, I started smoking to get the cab smell off of me.
Install translators so drivers and passengers can communicate.
Then I reckon they need Ajax and rounded corners. Cleaner cabs with fewer sharp edges on them. Plus they'd have to be called "yellowcbs".
I want to be able to pay extra to QoS tag my taxi cab so that it gets priority over the other traffic.
If there's one thing I learned from all my years of playing Crazy Taxi on the Dreamcast, it's that customers will tip more if you nearly get them killed.
I say, let all the taxi drivers play Crazy Taxi for a week, then get back to driving cabs with their new skills. It's bound to get results.
Automate them with artificial intelligence and give them defocused temporal perception so that they're always ready to pick you up even before you know you wanted one.
Make the interior stainless steel and have it go through an internal wash and rinse cycle at the conclusion of every trip as there will always be people excreting various unwanted solids, fluids, and gases inside.
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Damn you and your science. I was trying to make fun of cabbies and you have to go and ruin it with all your "facts". One thing your "facts" didn't consider, maybe it's already happening. This sounds like a "factual" statement:
Even very low concentrations of cabbie BO can be harmful to the upper respiratory tract and the lungs. The severity of injury depends on both by the concentration of cabbie BO and the duration of exposure. Severe and permanent lung injury or death could result from even a very short-term exposure to relatively low concentrations of cabbie BO.
See. Dispute that.
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They all seem to disappear when it rains, which I assume is because they can't get wet. So, they need to be waterproofed, or at least be given big umbrellas.
Umbrellas might work, actually. The umbrella vendors pop up out of nowhere when it rains, like hibernating frogs in the desert. Maybe they could be put to good use covering up the taxis.
Ok, if nobody else is going to...
"You're in a Johnny Cab - Would you please restate the destination?"
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For extra revenue, hook up with a fat farm or fitness club and CHARGE people to pull the rickshaws ...
But a large taxi service should be able to set up battery swap positions all around town.
Actually, let's just screw it and stick with the subway.
If, instead of a horn button, they had to crank a generator to honk, it would certainly extend the range considerably, or perhaps make the city a quieter place to live, either of which is an improvement.
Coats
Optional?
Take a note: New Yorkers who rely on trains and cabs shouldn't claim authority on "reality" either. Leave that to us New Yorkers who commute by bike 12 miles a day ;D
Here's an interesting thought: thousands of guys who learned to drive on the insane streets of Mumbai/Colombo/Nairobi now driving ultra-silent electric vehicles so I can't hear them screaming up behind me to cut me off when turning a right (without use of a directional signal, naturally.)
I say the sooner New Yorkers stop being over-priveleged babies that need to be chauffeured around, the happier we'll all be.
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