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Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
The next frontier in ride-hailing car services like Uber, Lyft, etc ought to be a reversal of the trip planning. Right now, if I need to be at location L by time T, I do my best guesstimating the time at which I need to order a car, when in reality I know nothing about the availability of drivers nor the traffic conditions at that moment. Sometimes a car will show up right away, sometimes 15 minutes later, and that’s before traffic comes into play. That variance is friction. I’d like the app to know of my meetings from my calendar, and give me a heads up that it will order a car at time T based on what it knows of the conditions that day. Like a Copilot for ride-hailing (and not mere “dumb” advance booking as it exists today). Does this exist anywhere? Certainly not with Grab in Singapore.
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thugkitten 🎩 🍖
@thugkitten.eth
Really interesting thought, my first reaction to this is given current state this can likely only be in the form of a premium subscription service in a fairly busy city unless there is a critical mass of users as the incentive needs to be attractive enough drivers for the perceived increase in the uncertainty on the demand side of the equation?
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Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
For sure, this would transfer some risk / variability onto the driver. It’s already the case when making a “dumb” advance booking, because the app will auto-order sooner than usual and grant a longer grace period; but this would make it more systematic. As a business user, I’m not too price sensitive (I expense the rides), so I’d be happy to pay a premium for this increased certainty
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