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https://www.hardwarezone.com.sg/tech-news-oslo-going-be-first-world-charge-electric-taxis-wirelessly Oslo is going to be the first in the world to charge electric taxis wirelesslyBy Marcus Wong - on 22 Mar 2019, 11:51am Norway’s capital Oslo is set to become the first city in the world to install wireless charging systems for taxis using induction technology. Basically, charging plates are installed in the ground and a receiver installed in the taxi, allowing for charging via induction at up to 75 kilowatts. Finnish utilities firm Fortum, US company Momentum Dynamics, and the municipal government of Oslo will work together to install the system. Annika Hoffner, Head of Fortum Charge & Drive has this to say about how the system will work: We will install the wireless chargers at taxi stands, such as the one at the Oslo Central Station. Taxis will be able to drive up to the charger and a wireless charging session will automatically start. This allows the taxis to charge in a place where they would anyway be waiting for new customers. The difference is that they won’t be emitting exhaust while waiting, instead they will be receiving renewable energy to charge the taxi's battery. Related video That certainly seems like a workable solution, and it might have the added benefit of keeping electric taxis in continuous operation. Not having to search for a charger, plug in and wait for charging to complete certainly seems makes things easier for taxi drivers to keep their cars charged, and it may even have the benefit of bringing more cabs to more remote taxi stands while they wait for their cars to get charged. Norway has the world’s highest rate of electric car ownership, in part because the government has implemented perks such as free or discounted road tolls, parking and charging points. Reuters reports that almost one in three cars sold in Norway last year was electric, with 46,143 new battery electric cars bought in 2018, making it the biggest market in Europe. Given the relatively small size of our country, you can’t help but wonder if we can implement a similar system for our buses in time to come. Sources: Fortum, Reuters,The Verge
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Sent car for regular servicing. Took a cab to collect my vehicle. Smooth and comfortable ride. I peeked at the odometer and saw it is 400,000 + KM. Taxi uncle shared with me that the vehicle will run fine if: 1. Stick to the servicing schedule, for cabs, they have to send car for servicing at least once a month. 2. Immediately repair or replace faulty or dying parts. "Mai tu liao". The longer you drag, the more related parts it will damage. I thanked him for his advice. Any truth to what he said?
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SINGAPORE — Part-time SMRT taxi drivers were locked out of their vehicles early Monday morning (Oct 30) in a three-hour server glitch on the transport operator’s short-term taxi rental service portal, SMRT Taxi Share. Rolled out in January by SMRT, the service requires taxi drivers to prebook a taxi, head to the pick-up point closest to them, and get on taxishare.com.sg to indicate that they would like to “Start Trip” — a button that would only be enabled past the starting time of their booking — before their cars would be unlocked. But drivers who went through their usual routine on Monday morning were met with an irresponsive ‘Start Trip’ button, although they were able to access the Taxi Share website. Those attempting to end their rental reportedly faced problems doing so. Late charges are S$10 for every 15 minutes or part thereof. http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/part-time-smrt-cabbies-locked-out-taxis-server-glitch
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so fast these sonata taxis has reached the end of their 8 year lifespan. maybe heading for scrapyard liao. pic from fb
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SINGAPORE: An SBS Transit bus hit two taxis at a cab stand in Commonwealth Avenue, near Commonwealth MRT Station on Thursday morning. The driver of Service 100, who's in his 60s, was sent to the National University Hospital for suspected cardiac arrest. The Singapore Civil Defence Force said it was alerted about the accident at 10:50am. SBS Transit said in a statement that no one else was injured. It said its top priority is to ensure the well-being of the bus captain, affected passengers and road users. Link
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Nissan Leaf EV winning the hearts and wallets of cab drivers in the U.K.
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Taxi operators across cities in Europe are going through a quiet revolution as they start to shift from conventional diesel powered cabs to zero-emission - and near silent Nissan Leaf taxis. Two years after the EV went on sale in Europe, Nissan Leaf taxis are now operating in European cities like Holland, Switzerland, Germany, Portugal, Spain and the U.K. The world's best-selling electric vehicle (EV) is fast becoming a favourite among taxi drivers too, thanks to lower running costs and fueled by a desire to reduce airborne pollution in city centres. These road warriors are fast-becoming EV advocates showing colleagues the benefits of making the switch from diesel to electric. One of the strongest advocates is Amsterdam-based Taxi-E company. With a fleet of 13 Nissan LEAF's, the firms' drivers have covered over 700,000km - further than the distance between earth and the moon. The cars are quick-charged two or three times daily using 100 percent green energy, meaning they're always ready for passengers. The city of Zurich in Switzerland, will soon obtain ten Nissan Leaf supported by a network of city-wide fast chargers as part of the city's plans to make 15 percent of its taxi fleet electric by 2015. Capable of restoring the battery life by up to 80 percent in just 30 minutes, many customers arrive with partially full batteries, thus making the average stay - just 15 minutes. In Portugal, the first European country to sell the Leaf, Lisbon based owner-driver Jose Ferreira replaced his diesel powered taxi with a Leaf and has since driven more than 15,000km so far. Interestingly he reveals 70 percent of his customers liked the experience - and they would actively choose to ride in an electric taxi. Fuel and running costs are the biggest factors for taxi owner-drivers. Owner-driver Roberto San Jose from Valladolid, Spain, would have to spend more than -
Sharing from this link: Taxis in SGP Why you don't get taxis in Singapore when it rains? Zafar Anjum | Oct. 3, 2012 It is common experience that when it rains, it is difficult to get a cab in Singapore-even when you try to call one in or use your smartphone app to book one. Why does it happen? What could be the reason behind it? Most people would think that this unavailability of taxis during rain is because of high demand for cab services. Well, Big Data has a very surprising answer for you, as astonishing as it was for researcher Oliver Senn. In 2011, Oliver Senn, a senior research engineer with the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), spent five months working on a joint initiative to give real-time data and insights to citizens to help them improve their city, according to storage and Big Data solutions company EMC. EMC revealed this case study at an event in Singapore on Tuesday (2 October). When Senn was first given his assignment to compare two months of weather satellite data with 830 million GPS records of 80 million taxi trips, he was a little disappointed. "Everyone in Singapore knows it's impossible to get a taxi in a rainstorm," says Senn, "so I expected the data to basically confirm that assumption." As he sifted through the data related to a vast fleet of more than 16,000 taxicabs, a strange pattern emerged: it appeared that many taxis weren't moving during rainstorms. In fact, the GPS records showed that when it rained (a frequent occurrence in this tropical island state), many drivers pulled over and didn't pick up passengers at all. Senn confirmed his findings by sitting down with drivers. And what did he learn? He learned that the company owning most of the island's taxis would withhold S$1,000 (about US$800) from a driver's salary immediately after an accident until it was determined who was at fault. The process could take months, and the drivers had independently decided that it simply wasn't worth the risk of having their livelihood tangled up in bureaucracy for that long. So when it started raining, they simply pulled over and waited out the storm. This unexpected revelation, a direct result of the data study, stunned the company. Now, armed with this insight, they are strategising about how to fix a policy that obviously doesn't work for customers, drivers, or the parent company. Says Senn: "This was a powerful example of how one of the world's most data-driven countries is improving the lives of its citizens by providing scientists and researchers with access to that data."
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Did anyone read the column in today's ST by a snr correspondent? Although he was mainly addressing the whole COE issue, one thing that stood out to me was when he said that *some* taxi drivers only pick up enough passengers to cover their rent and then use the taxi for their own things thereafter. By extension, a taxi driver who on a given day has no errands to run might be able to collect enough rental for the next day's rent as well which mean he may use the whole of the next day to himself. If this is true (which i am sure it is as a snr correspondent would not anyhow make such statements and face lawsuit) then i guess this is the reason (or at least one of the main reasons) why though with so many new cabs each month there is still shortage of cabs. This must be very bad and must stopped. Taxi companies should set sales targets for taxi drivers (targets can be based on the 20th percentile of top drivers' sales and all other drivers must then come within 10% of their sales). So if the 20th% driver has sales of $10,000 per month, then the other drivers must achieve at least $8,000. Those who not able to hit their targets for 2 consecutive months AND 4 out of 6 continuous months will be disciplined. GPS can be used to further prove that the taxi driver is not "sincere" (going to certain places frequently where he doesn't pick up sales) and will be booted out. As for other things like pay more, etc....well, what can i say right? Everyone wants more pay. Recently bus drivers and pre-school teachers so.... I know some people might come and flame me as a "pappy dog" for saying this but i have to applaud LTA that when they removed taxis from Cat A, they did think it through and implemented something that not just relieves some of the upward pressure on Cat A but at the same time also found a way to improve taxi service standards. They did not just "bow to pressure from us" and set up a separate category for them as what many of us were saying. They did more than that. Kudos. -
Transport Minister has announced that taxis will be taken out of Cat A COE and will be moved to Cat E. More details to come.
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even if u have the right of way, these mother f--kers can still cause accidents and the first thing he told me when he alight, 'i didnt see ur car leh, where u come from?' Uploaded with ImageShack.us
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http://news.xin.msn.com/en/singapore/no-ai...s-in-most-taxis Taxis are installed with turbos but no air bags
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If you are the asked to tell taxi companies, which models you prefer as taxi? remember if the model is an expensive one, taxi fares will go up, so please try to choose not too expensive models
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just now i take comfort sonata taxi, the taxi is new one! got nice new car smell. according to the taxi uncle, he just collected his new cab last week! he also said that comfort confirmed a purchase of 5000 sonata taxis to replace those toyota clowns last year and delivery is ongoing. we can look forward to seeing more and more sonata taxis on the road!
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We often see passengers flaging down taxis from corner of the road junction where traffic is heavy and cars are getting in / out from one road into the other.... the taxi will just cut lanes and stop right at the junction disregarding other cars !!! Taxi drivers will blame the passengers who insist the taxi stop as and where to pick / let down the passengers. The passengers will say: he drives the taxi, if he decides to stop, i cant control him. Why not fine both passengers and taxi drivers who cause taxi to stop at road junction / double yellow line / no-stop zone etc etc.... taxi whichs cut lanes suddenly should be fine: if they are cruising and looking for passengers at the same time, take left most lane. Or: issue free 'passnger-license' to all who take taxi, but deduct demerit points if they are caught flouting the above rules, once all demerit pts are exhausted, he will not be allow to take taxi and if he does, impose heavy fines, 30% of the fine goes to the taxi driver who reports such 'illegal' passengers. Taxi drivers who bring / report such illegal passegner to the station will be given free drink and nasi lemak lunch etc in addition to 40% of the fine.
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from what i can see from here, http://app.ltgallery.lta.gov.sg/data/0/lta...20Annex%20A.pdf Taxi operators pay the prevailing quota premium (PQP) to replace their taxis within 6 months of de-registration of their taxis. If the taxi is not replaced by paying PQP, the de-registered taxis would be recycled as replacement COEs. so they are not replacing old taxis but ADDING new taxis to the fleet?
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Deranged or lost $$$? From CNA: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/sin...1169730/1/.html 73-year-old man damaged 16 taxis at RWS Posted: 06 December 2011 1626 hrs SINGAPORE: A 73-year-old man used sharp objects to scratch and damage 16 taxis at the carpark of Resorts World Sentosa (RWS). Police said he will be charged in Court on December 8 for mischief. The incident came to light in early April this year when two taxi drivers reported that their taxis parked at the basement carpark of RWS were scratched by unknown persons. Subsequent checks by police with RWS revealed there were other similar but unreported cases. Together with RWS security personnel, police established the identity of the suspect. Police said investigations revealed the suspect had used various sharp objects to scratch the paintwork of the taxis out of frustration on multiple occasions. The total repair cost to the damaged vehicles is valued at approximately S$8,600. If convicted, he is liable for imprisonment for jail of up to two years, a fine or both. - CNA/fa
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Visit My Website Read this on Stomp : STOMPer Ang says she was late because a taxi she had booked took another passenger instead. This was despite the fact she had reached the pick-up location before receiving the call telling her the cab had arrived. The upset STOMPer wrote: "At 8am this morning I called Comfort to book a cab and got a confirmation. "When I went to my pick-up location prior to the confirmation call that my taxi had arrived, I saw my cab leaving with a passenger. It was already too far for me to run after it. "I then waited another 20 minutes and saw a cab alight a passenger. While waiting for the passenger to get off, standing right in front of the cab, the taxi changed from 'hired' to 'on call' immediately. "Another 15 minutes later the same thing happened, 'hired' to 'on call'! "Should you put a passenger right in front of you as a priority rather than accept a call request just to get the booking fee? "This was a very bad experience with comfort cab which made me late for 30 minutes."
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I am curious... MOST Taxis ply the streets MOST of the time, right? Main driver - co-driver - relief driver - etc... The only time they park should be for shift changes, meals, breaks, maintenance, fuel, etc... which usually should be for short durations, and probably at different locations. Thus, since they do not need long term parking at any carpark - it makes sense that they do NOT need season parking. This begets the premise... if they do not have season parking, if they are parked overnight at any carpark, they should be using carpark coupons. SO... this leads to the logical hypothesis that in MOST cases, if a taxi is parked WITHOUT coupons at any carpark - it is most probably illegally parked.
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Do you think taxi drivers have such mentality. Since they have nothing to lose (vehicle is not theirs also), as long as he is in the right of way, he won't even try to avoid an accident and would rather bang straight into the vehicle and claim insurance gao gao (lost of income, tooth crack, hand pain, leg pain etc.....). They don't practice defensive driving on the road, they only only if an accident will favor them or not. For the rest of us, its hear pain. Even is car can be repaired, its no longer the same already thus avoid as much as we can.
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taxis are getting more powerful nowadays. the old toyota crowns and nissan cedric are slowing being replaced by the Sonata. seen too many of these sonatas driving like nobody business and without a care for other road users. would it be a good idea to install speed limiters in taxis? maybe their top speed can be capped at 100km/h?
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anyone read today's Straits Times? SMRT has ordered 10 electric buses and an unknown number of electric taxis from chinese automobile manufacturer BYD. The delivery of the vehicles will depend on when the charging infrastructure is ready. The right hand drive version of the electric buses will go into production in August, while the right hand drive version of the electric taxis will be made in June next year.
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I realise that I am one of those people who is really reliant on the car, and drive to literally everywhere I go. The other day, I found out why, when I decided to put our "world-class" public transportation to the test. Boy did I regret it. I figured that the closest alternative to driving has to be taking taxis, and so, I left my car at home one day, and tried to take a cab to work. It took me nearly 20 minutes before I even spotted an available one. And that one was an uncle who was changing shift (not to my destination) and took pity on me after seeing me drenched in sweat from the blazing sun. If he wasn't so kind I wondered how long more I would have waited. OK, I guess it's my fault for staying in such a far out place like Woodlands, where no men (and thus taxis) exist, so I tried it out again during evening peak hour, on the way home. I suppose it would be easier to get a cab then. Wrong. Again, it took over 20 minutes before I even spotted a taxi with the green sign on top. Car after car passed by, but no, not a single available taxi. After an agonizing wait, one taxi finally entered my office building to drop off passengers, and I pounced. I don't even want to talk about the ride experience afterwards. Let's just say he upheld his profession's reputation, if you know what I mean. Frankly, I find it ridiculous that with so many taxi companies in Singapore now, and their talk of expansion and constant bidding for Category A COEs, I can still wait close to half an hour before a single taxi is available. In half an hour I can easily drive from home to town (or anywhere actually) with clear traffic, so that's productivity down then. With that kind of 'service', you have to wonder whether their exorbiant fares are worth it (the trip home cost me $30, or about half a tank of fuel for me). Before you ask me about buses and trains, I have to point out that there is NO bus service from my workplace going to anywhere near I live (another benefit of living in Woodlands. Yay), and the nearest MRT from here is a good 15-20 minutes away. Taking the bus/train home would involve lots of silly transfers and use up probably a good hour or two, which is honestly very stupid. And we all know about the rush hour squeeze on the MRTs and buses. I detest public transport simply because you are at the mercy of others when you rely on them. Call me cynical, but I'd rather be in control of my own fate rather than risk wasting a big chunk of my time waiting (time that can be more wisely spent) and potentially getting into a death trap, seeing how most taxi drivers operate here. I don't care if driving in Singapore bankrupts me. There simply is no replacement. World class public transport, yeah right.
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hi...anyone seen fiat cromas taxis? so far comes onli in yellow tops and there are onli 4 in sg... 2 more will be coming in soon... sori..pics will be coming in onli later.. quality not so good coz hp camera suxs
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Instead of lamenting that the high cost of diesel is hitting the cabbies hard, taxi companies should take a look at the way their driver drive. Some of the things I have noticed 1) Leaving the taxi idling when eating dinner/lunch. 2) Accelerate like a F1 car when the light turns green. 3) Unnecessary acceleration and sharp braking All these actions will simply increase their diesel cost.
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I don't know much about the COE allocation method. Is this the reason why people say that there's still 'market support' for the high COE prices? Any bros know? Mar 18, 2011 IN THE ST NEWSPAPER TODAY Taxis are best-selling cars on the road Cabs take 17.4% of market as motor traders face shrinking supply of COEs By Christopher Tan, Senior Correspondent In the first two months of the year, 901 taxis were registered, with Hyundai cabs like this one making up the bulk. -- ST PHOTO: NG SOR LUAN THE best-selling cars so far this year are not Toyotas, Mercs or Volkswagens. They are taxis. The cab cohort has emerged as the biggest-selling in the first two months of the year, an anomaly that some observers say could prevail for the rest of the year as taxi companies outbid motor traders in a shrinking market for certificates of entitlement (COEs).
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