A fun UX that’s arrived in only some Japanese taxis, for your edification: Your back-of-seat ad display has a button saying Japan Taxi (name of app) in it. It has a QR code. The app has you register a payment method (during *one* taxi ride); you scan the bar code any time to pay
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If the QR code changes for each ride, containing identifying bits about it, you would effectively be authorizing just one transaction, so that wouldn't even be a problem: it wouldn't be any worse than paying for your Uber ride – or am I missing something?
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Reasonable question. Ride sharing apps have the company provide the equivalent of the taxi meter and guarantee fair fares, with CS teams to fight down various forms of abuse. US cab drivers have meters due to regulation but, despite this, have been known to defraud via them.
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Somebody said to me at one point, a wealthy country has trust as a prereq, and the more trust they have, the wealthier they can (overall) be. This is a really good example of that. "Wealth" in this case is about convenience not money, but... It's never *just* convenience.
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there are several apps like this in the US. i have curb and arro. they also hail (tho i never tried it)
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NYC does something very similar. All yellow/green taxis generate a pairing code and there are multiple apps written to the same protocol - curb, arro etc. the card info is with the app and it send you an sms receipt.
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Each cab advertises a different app. The pair and pay is at very low or no margin for the app I think. But the apps can charge a service fee for app based hailing (like Uber/Lyft)
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Curb (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/curb-the-taxi-app/id299226386 …) is getting pretty popular in NYC—doesn’t utilize QR codes but good enough
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Similar UX: screen with app name/code
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Given that it took Uber to get some cities' taxis to accept cards at all this seems... unlikely.
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What do you make of JapanTaxi introducing "pre-regulated pricing"? That seems to have come up in the latest update
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