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Re:San Francisco to Uber, Lyft: If your drivers aren’t emplo... by CodeWriter23 on Friday June 01, 2018 @12:38PM (#17207122)
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.
Re:San Francisco to Uber, Lyft: If your drivers aren’t emplo... by Const-me on Friday June 01, 2018 @12:50PM (#17207260)
> 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.

Re:San Francisco to Uber, Lyft: If your drivers aren’t emplo... by dllthomas on Friday June 01, 2018 @12:41PM (#17207149)
You could let the drivers script it (providing some canned - and well explained - scripts)
Re:San Francisco to Uber, Lyft: If your drivers aren’t emplo... by malandrew on Friday June 01, 2018 @01:53PM (#17208056)
Curious about the 1-tap law. Do you have a link to the actual statute here?