GeekWire’s app of the week: Taxi Turvi
Jan 22, 2013, 11:09 AM | Updated: 11:27 am
This week's GeekWire app of the week, Taxi Turvi, will let you know if your cabbie is taking you for a ride. (Image courtesy iTunes)
(Image courtesy iTunes)
This week’s GeekWire app of the week will let you know if your cabbie is taking you for a ride.
“This app is fantastic,” says GeekWire host Todd Bishop. “It was developed actually by a gentleman that now lives in Spokane, Chip Overstreet.”
Bishop explains Taxi Turvi is a free app that allows a passenger in a taxi cab to see whether their driver took them on the most appropriate route.
“You get into the taxi. You press a button to say that you’re about to start, and then you go on your route and what it does is it tracks your route that the taxi driver takes you on,” says Bishop. “When you’re done, you hit a button and it tells you the route that the taxi driver should have taken.”
The app will advise you on how to tip the driver based on how efficiently they got you to your destination.
Bishop says the app can also be used as a threat to the driver. Taxi driver license numbers can be put in the app to record their performance. You can also add a friendly rating to the driver’s record. In the case they’re being rated, they’re incentivized to get you where you’re going by the fairest route possible.
Taxi Turvi is available for free on iTunes.
