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This article was published June 15, 2015 at 24:12.
For once just about innovation. Taxis take the challenge head on by the advent of smartphones and app developers and call in a competition to “hack” the taxi in 48 hours of programming. In Rome, at the weekend just ended, there was the first TaxiHack.
The teams and themes
Eleven groups of developers led by Andrea Ferlito, CTO of Codemotion, have devised ways to improve both the ‘ Taxi application it is useful areas to evolve the service for the disabled, the taxi sharing, safety of taxi drivers and customers and new payment formulas. Also present were the makers, to support the team in the production of sensors and small hardware, strictly based on Arduino.
One way to breaking free from Uber?
“For Uber – continues Bittarelli – contest not only the perfect compliance with the rules, the presence of a competitor in the market is more a stimulus. ” URI is just one of the associations that bring together the taxis of the capital, the predisposition to innovation is a form of ongoing research to increase the satisfaction of customers and the quality of services offered.
About won
The awards which are payable on goods and services, have been assigned: a BITTaxi, which implements the circuit Bitcoin payment; Taxishare the team that developed the app to calculate in advance the fare and share it with other passengers and third classified, TTTeam – Rates Transparent which guarantees the lowest fare in the market.
Italy is a step forward
Rome is a difficult city: vast territory and a lot of traffic, largely due to a traffic perfectible; Lorraine Bittarelli – President of the Italian Radiotaxi (URI) and the Cooperative Radiotaxi 3570, which in recent months has launched the IT application Taxi – wished that this event is a first, at least at European level, “ten years ago ‘the Our operations room was envied abroad, today we bring innovation to the service of customers and taxi drivers, which is why we have called upon developers eager to get involved. This competition is not just an end in itself, we are always looking for talent. “
Innovators Italian
There are many, are motivated and are prepared? “In Italy we tend to shift the focus elsewhere – says CTO Codemotion Andrea Ferlito – while our boys needed more attention. Other countries are more susceptible and sensitive. ” Marco Montemagno praised the resourcefulness of the team at the event, “took the IT application Taxi and have made it a platform that includes a number of additional services, this is an interesting form of innovation. In England (where he lives Montemagno) there is nothing like it. “
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