Monday, February 16, 2009
Workflow
When you take a taxi ride, you sit there for the duration of the ride with nothing to do but look out the window, then when you arrive at your destination, and are blocking traffic, you must scramble to calculate the tip and pay the driver.
That is stupid. NYC Taxis now take credit card. You should be able to swipe your card at any point during the trip and enter a percentage tip. The system could pre-auth some amount on your card, and when the ride is over you'd just have to, at most, hit a confirm button and hop out. This would save both you and the driver time and minimize traffic disruption.
When you take a taxi ride, you sit there for the duration of the ride with nothing to do but look out the window, then when you arrive at your destination, and are blocking traffic, you must scramble to calculate the tip and pay the driver.
That is stupid. NYC Taxis now take credit card. You should be able to swipe your card at any point during the trip and enter a percentage tip. The system could pre-auth some amount on your card, and when the ride is over you'd just have to, at most, hit a confirm button and hop out. This would save both you and the driver time and minimize traffic disruption.
