Do you use GPS in your job?

CM840_2009 SG

do taxi drivers rely on GPS to navigate around singapore? i consider the maps in Iphone very helpful but you must sign data plan with singtel.

Your views please.

Poolman SG

i dunno others .... my GPS inside my head .

Poolman SG

if using a handphone or sms is dangerous while driving , looking at the GPS also one kind of dangerous .

I dunno others , i cannot focus on my road if i keep looking at the tiny 4" LCD screen .

I dunno , maybe i am not good enough to do 2 things @ 1 time while driving .

I care for my own safety .

So i learn by the hard way ....

So hard i always got headache , hahahahaha .... brain congestions !

Poolman SG

the GPS inside Comfort's fleet is crap !!!!

Slow ... very slow .

By the time the map appears , i reached destination liao . The loading damn slow .

The more software they instal , they slower the response .

Poolman SG

my advice : Technology helps , but as far as driving is concern , it's best to learn roads by the traditional ways , the most effective as far as i am concern .

I do not want to rely too much and learn nothing .

I want to be learn something and it permanently kept inside my head thru the most tradtional most effective ways .

Ask around , how many old bird cabbies use GPS while driving ?

Poolman SG

anyway S'pore so tiny , it's a joke to tell people i need a GPS to navigate in S'pore .

FireIce SG

i encountered one cabbie......
i told him the destination.... then he on the GPS..... and started driving.....
一面 drive, 一面 poke the screen..... and i think he not bery sek with the device..... poke wrong thing..... then restart..... spell road name oso spell damn slow....
sometimes eye on the road, sometimes eye on the screen....
so dangerous
when the thing is finally up (as in, working, not the up as in erection), im almost reaching liao.........

HiAy3Captain SG

=.+

Poolman SG

what F1 said , summed up in short what i am trying to interpret .

Good drivers don't need any technology . Sorry about that .

CM840_2009 SG

i ever use the maps on the IPhone to locate ban leong service center, just stop the car look at the gps and drive again. i not very good with eastern part

FireIce SG

F1 got standard route mah
just go round and round and round and round
where need GPS?

NG QIBO AARON AUBREY SG

F1 got standard route mah
just go round and round and round and round
where need GPS?

poolman meant fireice

kinwashi SG

For me if encounter and probelm, just politely call the cablink operator for help.

That is my GPS.

FireIce SG

i is not F1

HiAy3Captain SG

singapore so small liao.

CM840_2009 SG

seriously i will get lost in the eastern part, seldom go there

but if i become taxi driver and spend few months driving around i think i should know the roads better

ALN SG

so far for direction me

a)rely on myself
b)double check with pax
c)check street directory
d)sms friends
e)never use GPS
f)never called comfort

after on the road for many moons, most destinations i should know liao unless ulu small road or ulu building name….

and nowadays if a and b fails, me lazy to try c or d liao unless peak hr or after 12am… haha….

got two times, no signboard seafood geylang lor wat har? and mei zhen xiang at serangoon where har??? sms poolman…. but sometimes sms slow… war over…. haha

kinwashi SG

so far for direction me

a)rely on myself
b)double check with pax
c)check street directory
d)sms friends
e)never use GPS
f)never called comfort

OK...This is your test, use what is available as you mention.

Uncle i want to go to old tampines road.

From Takashimaya.

Poolman SG

so far the direction me

a) asked customer prefer route ( even if i know )

b) check directory

c) instinct ( funny , never gets wrong )

d) gps ? what gps ?

e) sms ? offense to sms while driving .

f)call comfort ? yes , they for call only , ON-CALL !

P/S : Comfort Hotline meant for Booking Enquiries , not Street Enquiries . My friend got a phone call from HQ that he congested the hotline asking irrelevant enquiries , outside booking issues . Got warn .

ALN SG

taka to old tamp

a) CTE-PIE-KPE exit old tamp
b) CTE-PIE-KPE exit bartley
c) CTE-PIE-exit bedok reservoir

if i can choose, i choose option A. why? cos least traffic lights and least traffic volume…. haha

so kin, which other route u took?