tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2708859863717325805.post5304487917774218177..comments2024-02-13T12:56:46.050-08:00Comments on The Phantom Cab Driver Phites Back: Town Hall Meetings: Indians and Electronic Waybills?Crocker Amazonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14344354862430937003noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2708859863717325805.post-79131777848110547082011-06-03T14:47:21.337-07:002011-06-03T14:47:21.337-07:00I don't think I mentioned this at the meeting,...I don't think I mentioned this at the meeting, but I am in favor of the electronic waybills also recording the fare amounts. The waybill is a driver's best defense against fraudulent claims, and many undesirable scenarios can include accusations that the driver has mischarged the passenger. In this respect the credit card usage is best, and I never put a shadow over a passenger's desire to use one. "More business" is a good mantra here. (And that's why we need Open Taxi Access.)<br />About Mr. Mahmood, it is a pity that someone with such passionate ferver for the drivers' welfare cannot see that increasing their accountability is good for them, and that he does not realize he is LOSING credibility through his repeated orally violent and unreasonable attacks on Christiane Hayashi (TM, very loudly and rudely: "Why you did not do this two years ago?" CH, in simple though slightly wavering tone: "The problem did not exist two years ago."). While it is possible for me to understand, though not quite to sympathize with his fight againd credit card charges, Mahmood's antipathy to electronic waybills works against the drivers' longstanding effort to achieve credibility. Hello, look beyond the Government, we have to get the banks to learn to trust us! <br />With regard to the much-touted fears about Big Brother, I have not yet heard a complaint against sonic, visual, or electronic recording that doesn't sound to me like an expression of the drabbest kind of "performance anxiety."Christopher Fulkerson, Ph.D.http://christopherfulkerson.comnoreply@blogger.com