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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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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
This is serious over-optimization. Next you’ll have your calendar agent arguing with uber app using LLMs and before you know it they’ll be plotting to send you to the paper clip factory Slacken-up your calendar, don’t fine tune uber
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Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
My Google calendar is able to do that to some extent (“based on traffic conditions, you should leave now for your next meeting”), it wouldn’t be a stretch for the ride-hailing app to offer the same plus the option of booking right away
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