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Four Person Taxi Meter
When you run a shared taxi service and customers step into and out of your ride at different points of the journey - how to you keep track of what to charge each person? This four person taxi meter introduced by Tehran's taxi authority technically works but according to this taxi driver is not often used. Why? Unpopular with customers more used to a culture of bargaining.
This meter is crudely indicative of the finer granularity of data that increasingly surrounds us. In which cultures will this measurable/precise data be welcomed? In which rejected?
Writing from Tokyo | November 10, 2006 | Permalink
Comments
Long time ago in Korea, ad-hoc taxi and multiple passenger sharing taxi were popular but it is prohibited now. Especially sharing taxi with stranger might cause serious security problem to passenger. When we share a taxi, one passenger take front navigator seat and the others taks back seat naturally. Sharing same seat is just like a sharing same table at restaurant.
Posted by: Alf at November 10, 2006 11:23 AM