Yesterday, reporters launched an investigation into 50 taxi drivers and 50 passengers using a taxi software, after the Transport Committee considered safety factors for "taxis only allow a taxi terminal to be installed". Of these, 74% of the respondents said they had encountered a taxi driver using a taxi software to rob a list, and that over 60% of the respondents said it was unsafe, as well as a 60% of the taxi drivers also agreed with the "safety hazard".
70% of the passengers interviewed saw the driver take a ride
Of the 50 passengers surveyed yesterday, 74% of the respondents said they had seen the taxi driver while driving, using mobile phone software to grab a ticket, or calling the passengers on the order.
Of the 50 taxi drivers surveyed, only 38% admitted to snatching or calling orders from passengers in the form of a passenger.
Passenger Zhao Yan said she had at least 4 times in a taxi to the destination, the driver did not ask her advice, then quickly click on the phone, rob nearby passengers call the car order, "one time, I was in the car, the driver has called the other side, the phone told People, this single checkout after the pick up." ”
Most driver passengers think there is a safety hazard
The majority of the drivers and passengers surveyed were in the same camp on safety issues, with more than 65% per cent of the 100 respondents believed to be in danger, including 32 drivers and 33 passengers, as to whether there were any hidden dangers such as scratching and rear-end collision.
The 49-Year-old master, driving nearly 15 years old, only when empty and overcharging home, he will take out mobile phone search nearby passengers. Master Wang said, ordinary and peer together to eat, have heard many people because the use of software to find passengers have rear-end collision and scrape rub, "software can let the service and demand fast point-to-point docking, for our pull live bring convenience, but the safety of passengers and drivers more important." ”
Nearly 70% drivers are willing to stop and grab a single
Of the 50 drivers surveyed, 68% said they would be safer if they stopped at the roadside to grab a single or contact the order passengers when there were no passengers on the bus.
The elder brother Liu said, he is forums, for mobile phone computer is completely rookie, in order to facilitate pull live just follow the trend of smart phone, loaded with a taxi software, "every time I have to listen to the passengers reported the full location before Rob, the result I heard, a single early was robbed." Master Liu said that he was not very familiar with the robbery, while the driver was not safe and difficult to succeed, so he chose each pull after a single, stopped at the roadside Rob, "Safe!" ”
Cases
Driver
Looking for a mobile phone to hit a guardrail
Elder sister fan Driving age 12, open rental just 6 months. Not long ago, under the influence of peers, she also began to use the taxi software, "tick" and "fast" full battle. But because has not been installed in the car stent, every time I heard about the car information, she will stretch a hand into the pocket first to take out the phone, and then grab a single. For the use of software to rob a single whether it will affect the driving safety, master fan with her experience gave a "sure will affect" the answer.
Master fan recalls that a few days ago, she used software to rob a single right door near the live, but asked each other for a half-day she did not find the exact address.
In the course of the car, she opened the software to locate the location function, "one will look at the mobile phone, a look at the road, the front of a deviation, rub to the roadside iron fence." Teacher Fei said, she got off to look, the vehicle right side cut off a large.
"Luckily there were no passengers on the bus. "A small accident, master fan can only give orders to apologize to passengers, rush to repair the car," in order to earn the more than 10 20 dollars, spent more than 300 yuan, too unworthy when. ”
Fan said, after that, she never dared to use mobile phone to rob a single or positioning, "too insecure, now if I rob a single, I will stop at the roadside, contact good passengers and then on the road." ”
Passengers
The driver stared at the bike, fast and slow.
Yesterday morning, Mr Geng beckoned to stop a taxi at Pomegranate Garden Road. When he got on the bus, he found that the driver had two mobile phones on the front of the steering wheel.
Mr. Geng said that along the way, the driver drive, eyes but from time to cell phone to see, speed suddenly and slowly, "it was early peak, the car so much, I am very worried about security." ”
On the way to the destination, the driver's mobile phone software came an order information, "The driver asked me for advice, ask me if he can rob a, see him so, I did not refuse." ”
However, Mr Geng admits that how much software is used and which software is the user's personal choice in the market environment, but hope that the taxi driver can rob a single pull live in the case of driving safety, the software provider should also consider designing the corresponding procedures to increase the security of the taxi use software.
Paparazzi
Software side
Advise drivers to turn off software when carrying passengers
"Quick Taxi" software party staff said that as of yesterday, the company has not received information from the government on "restrictions". "This terminal" means the hardware terminal or software terminal, is not clear. "The staff member said," Quick Taxi "as the software installed on the mobile phone, in the initial design of the taxi driver to take into account the security, for example, in the driver to receive information, after the passenger billing, the driver is mostly in the form of voice reception, ear listening mode does not affect the driver's driving safety, At the same time, the software itself has a shutdown function, "We advise the driver to close the software after the passenger gets on the bus." ”
For the software side will be in accordance with the current provisions of the Traffic Committee to improve the software, the staff said, if the corresponding specific standards issued, "Quick Taxi" to launch the relevant work will be timely release to the user.
Yesterday, "tick-tock taxi" did not respond to related issues.
Taxi Company
Safety Education for drivers only
The head of the taxi Office of the Bank Construction company said the company has received the Transport Committee issued "a car a terminal" document, as the company will be strictly in accordance with the document, but the driver in the process of robbery, the law does not like the traffic in the telephone call to make it clear, the company can only be safety education drivers, Remind the driver to rob a single in case of driving safety.
North Company's relevant officials said that there is no use of multiple mobile phone to rob a single driver. To the driver in the car robbery, the person in charge said, this tracking supervision is difficult to achieve, only from the angle of safety education to promote drivers to ensure safe use of taxi software.
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