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How would that work in practice? Right now, in these apps, you can pick one of a few classes of cars, but if every driver has a different price, how do you allo

by jfim 8y ago

How would that work in practice? Right now, in these apps, you can pick one of a few classes of cars, but if every driver has a different price, how do you allow the passenger to choose between dozens of drivers? The value added by these platforms is exactly that, you don't need to negotiate with individual drivers to get a fare to your destination.

Const-me 8y ago
> how do you allow the passenger to choose between dozens of drivers? Why do you expect that’s going to be hard to implement? Actual private contractors (myself included) do that all the time. One straightforward method, a rider posts location + destination + price of the ride, accepts/declines offers from drivers based on price, vehicle model, reputation, personal preferences, etc. Another straightforward method, a passenger posts his location + destination, drivers offer price, a passenger accepts an offer. > The value added by these platforms is exactly that Not “exactly that”, that’s just one part of it. Examples of e-bay or stock markets shows that an intermediary connecting buyers with sellers, processing payments, maintaining reputation of both parties, and solving disputes, can still add huge value. > you don't need to negotiate with individual drivers to get a fare to your destination With sufficient support from the service, the negotiation part can probably be streamlined to only take a couple of clicks/swipes. Like preference to filter drivers/riders by price or distance, ability to save routes or destinations with price information allowing for 1-click repeated orders, other convenience features.
- CodeWriter23 8y ago
  Having tapped “Accept” over 1500 times for Lyft, I can tell you the idea af doing such an analysis of a fare is highly impractical and dangerous. And illegal in the State of California as you are allowed only 1 tap into an app while the vehicle is moving. In cities like LA or SF, rideshares have to keep moving in a lot of scenarios because there simply is no place to pull over and stop in between dropping off one passenger and picking up the next.
  - dllthomas 8y ago
    You could let the drivers script it (providing some canned - and well explained - scripts)
  - Const-me 8y ago
    > is highly impractical and dangerous. And illegal in the State of California It’s technically possible, and not that hard, to implement a voice-based interface for that, using e.g. Bluetooth + car stereo. You setup your preferences while the vehicle is not moving to filter the offers you want to receive, by criteria like price/km, geography, min. total price. Then the software uses voice interface to read you the incoming offers, and listens to your “accept/decline” voice commands.
  - malandrew 8y ago
    Curious about the 1-tap law. Do you have a link to the actual statute here?

by jfim 8y ago

Const-me 8y ago

> how do you allow the passenger to choose between dozens of drivers? Why do you expect that’s going to be hard to implement? Actual private contractors (myself included) do that all the time. One straightforward method, a rider posts location + destination + price of the ride, accepts/declines offers from drivers based on price, vehicle model, reputation, personal preferences, etc. Another straightforward method, a passenger posts his location + destination, drivers offer price, a passenger accepts an offer. > The value added by these platforms is exactly that Not “exactly that”, that’s just one part of it. Examples of e-bay or stock markets shows that an intermediary connecting buyers with sellers, processing payments, maintaining reputation of both parties, and solving disputes, can still add huge value. > you don't need to negotiate with individual drivers to get a fare to your destination With sufficient support from the service, the negotiation part can probably be streamlined to only take a couple of clicks/swipes. Like preference to filter drivers/riders by price or distance, ability to save routes or destinations with price information allowing for 1-click repeated orders, other convenience features.

CodeWriter23 8y ago
Having tapped “Accept” over 1500 times for Lyft, I can tell you the idea af doing such an analysis of a fare is highly impractical and dangerous. And illegal in the State of California as you are allowed only 1 tap into an app while the vehicle is moving. In cities like LA or SF, rideshares have to keep moving in a lot of scenarios because there simply is no place to pull over and stop in between dropping off one passenger and picking up the next.
- dllthomas 8y ago
  You could let the drivers script it (providing some canned - and well explained - scripts)
- Const-me 8y ago
  > is highly impractical and dangerous. And illegal in the State of California It’s technically possible, and not that hard, to implement a voice-based interface for that, using e.g. Bluetooth + car stereo. You setup your preferences while the vehicle is not moving to filter the offers you want to receive, by criteria like price/km, geography, min. total price. Then the software uses voice interface to read you the incoming offers, and listens to your “accept/decline” voice commands.
- malandrew 8y ago
  Curious about the 1-tap law. Do you have a link to the actual statute here?