This gets you the best part of the Japanese taxi experience (everything) with the best part of the US rideshare experience (no fumbling for a card and waiting for a receipt to print at end of ride).
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“What about credit risk?” Presumably they’ve calculated that a) this is Japan so credit risk is minimal and b) should someone have a transient payment failure in real time they just have you update your payment creds before the next trip ends (or stop facilitating payments).
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I can’t underemphasize the printed receipt piece: a large portion of habitual cab users are salarymen who are traveling on the company’s yen, and even though a contactless payment takes 200ms a receipt dance takes 30-60s plus.
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This is a UX that a US city could adopt for its cabs *if* US users could be convinced of the value proposition “I will happily give any cab driver preauthorization to debit my CC for whatever *without telling me in advance* because *of course* you can trust a cab driver.”
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This reminds me of how some taxi drivers (and other merchants like gas stations, shops) in India have a QR code placard set up that directs the customer to their Paytm identity (think India's venmo). It's a pretty fast process and you avoid making any typo mistakes.pic.twitter.com/2vHHKnPajq
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so it's like paying for salad? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LevelUp
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