New Driver using GPS
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That time from collar quay taxi stnd go jurong shipyard... Tell the charbor dunno how to go... She also dunno.. (pray she take the cab behind me) But she saw my gps... Ask me key in... I LLST... But round trip back to collar quay... Haha..
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Of course the newer cabbies would prefer a GPS or smart phone to guide them, but then, guide being guide, one of these day, you should be able to drive without them, it is like having milk bottle and teddy bear when you are new to this world, then as time goes by, you should start to off loan all these stuffs and be independent.
The case should end up with no GPS or smartphone, you cannot drive, that will be no good at all.
Taxis driving is a labour intensive job, it is not going to be some stockbroking or banking firm whereby software can take over human labour, same goes to construction and shipyard jobs, it is labour intensive, you cannot go on with no labour, unlike some electronic firm, it can use robotics.
Being labour intensive, we need to be independent, of course, technology today do helps us in a way of locating the exact places and traffic conditions. But as time goes by, by the rule of thumb, you should be able to drive without all this gadgets, it is like releasing all your dependents and set free.
Allow me to show you a news on the new labourless industrial that will take future world without labour, and china, being the factory workers of the world, will suffer if the west start it, and in fact, it had started, so brothers, let be up to date and open your eyes the true of Business without border and workers.
New Wave of Deft Robots Is Changing Global Industry
By JOHN MARKOFF
DRACHTEN, the Netherlands — At the Philips Electronics factory on the coast of China, hundreds of workers use their hands and specialized tools to assemble electric shavers. That is the old way.
At a sister factory here in the Dutch countryside, 128 robot arms do the same work with yoga-like flexibility. Video cameras guide them through feats well beyond the capability of the most dexterous human.
One robot arm endlessly forms three perfect bends in two connector wires and slips them into holes almost too small for the eye to see. The arms work so fast that they must be enclosed in glass cages to prevent the people supervising them from being injured. And they do it all without a coffee break — three shifts a day, 365 days a year.
All told, the factory here has several dozen workers per shift, about a tenth as many as the plant in the Chinese city of Zhuhai.
This is the future. A new wave of robots, far more adept than those now commonly used by automakers and other heavy manufacturers, are replacing workers around the world in both manufacturing and distribution. Factories like the one here in the Netherlands are a striking counterpoint to those used by Apple and other consumer electronics giants, which employ hundreds of thousands of low-skilled workers.
“With these machines, we can make any consumer device in the world,” said Binne Visser, an electrical engineer who manages the Philips assembly line in Drachten.
Many industry executives and technology experts say Philips’s approach is gaining ground on Apple’s. Even as Foxconn, Apple’s iPhone manufacturer, continues to build new plants and hire thousands of additional workers to make smartphones, it plans to install more than a million robots within a few years to supplement its work force in China.
Foxconn has not disclosed how many workers will be displaced or when. But its chairman, Terry Gou, has publicly endorsed a growing use of robots. Speaking of his more than one million employees worldwide, he said in January, according to the official Xinhua news agency: “As human beings are also animals, to manage one million animals gives me a headache.”
The falling costs and growing sophistication of robots have touched off a renewed debate among economists and technologists over how quickly jobs will be lost. This year, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, economists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, made the case for a rapid transformation. “The pace and scale of this encroachment into human skills is relatively recent and has profound economic implications,” they wrote in their book, “Race Against the Machine.”
In their minds, the advent of low-cost automation foretells changes on the scale of the revolution in agricultural technology over the last century, when farming employment in the United States fell from 40 percent of the work force to about 2 percent today. The analogy is not only to the industrialization of agriculture but also to the electrification of manufacturing in the past century, Mr. McAfee argues.
“At what point does the chain saw replace Paul Bunyan?” asked Mike Dennison, an executive at Flextronics, a manufacturer of consumer electronics products that is based in Silicon Valley and is increasingly automating assembly work. “There’s always a price point, and we’re very close to that point.”
But Bran Ferren, a veteran roboticist and industrial product designer at Applied Minds in Glendale, Calif., argues that there are still steep obstacles that have made the dream of the universal assembly robot elusive. “I had an early naïveté about universal robots that could just do anything,” he said. “You have to have people around anyway. And people are pretty good at figuring out, how do I wiggle the radiator in or slip the hose on? And these things are still hard for robots to do.”
Beyond the technical challenges lies resistance from unionized workers and communities worried about jobs. The ascension of robots may mean fewer jobs are created in this country, even though rising labor and transportation costs in Asia and fears of intellectual property theft are now bringing some work back to the West.
Take the cavernous solar-panel factory run by Flextronics in Milpitas, south of San Francisco. A large banner proudly proclaims “Bringing Jobs & Manufacturing Back to California!” (Right now China makes a large share of the solar panels used in this country and is automating its own industry.)
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A factory without workers
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With this new wave of technology, just imagine, how many peoples are going jobless, the west capitalists are smart, today they suffered because of cheap labour in china, now they are going to replace them with robots where cheap is no more a concern.
There is this car which I saw in sweden with auto parking, tho it takes few turns to parallel park itself, but the technology is there, it will get better and better, thing to ponder is, what if taxis driving become robotics??
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one feel shiok meh to drive and rely on technology to drive a taxi ?
not stressful meh ?
driving already so dangerous , but it make it even more dangerous if the focus is on the gps and not the road !!!!
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True, and also, learn to travel / work light, some cabbies I see, blue tooth here, 2 walkies, 2 GPS, cam, tab, smartphone...wah piang..business bigger than OCBC chairman
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The right way is to go towards the flyer then turn left a road parallel to nicoll highway that is the shortest use ecp .... longer way lah my bro
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Originally posted by bowah:
With this new wave of technology, just imagine, how many peoples are going jobless, the west capitalists are smart, today they suffered because of cheap labour in china, now they are going to replace them with robots where cheap is no more a concern.
There is this car which I saw in sweden with auto parking, tho it takes few turns to parallel park itself, but the technology is there, it will get better and better, thing to ponder is, what if taxis driving become robotics??
Haha......when servicing, all the robots go drink battery, jiak cables........
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Robot is ok, many sg uncles become roberto (carrot heads) for PRC women.
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Originally posted by Poolman:
one feel shiok meh to drive and rely on technology to drive a taxi ?
not stressful meh ?
driving already so dangerous , but it make it even more dangerous if the focus is on the gps and not the road !!!!
i have to disagree with you There are many advantages driving with GPS if it is used smartly It will pin point to you the exact location and you do not need to waste time searching for it. Sometimes while searching for a location while driving without a GPS could be more dangerous, change your mind about turning right and then suddenly you make a left turn... Knowing the exact location creates shorter customer turnaround time and that will create more trips per session. GPS will direct you the right way to a one way street so that you do not need to waste your time and customer $$$ . For example mosque street... a disatrous journey if you turn into New Bridge road instead of North Bridge road... Of course GPS will lead you to the exact location but you do not need to follow the exact route that it leads you. You can go via your own route and it will re-direct once you are nearer to your location. Out of my 26 trips a session, i may use 3 to 4 times. it is indeed a useful device for Taxi Drivers and I urge all drivers to have a GPS on board the taxi. If you visit Taipei, most of the taxis have a GPS on board... My 5 cents worth of contribution... -
Another example... I was CCK Ave 1 last sunday and a philippino couple boarded my taxi. They wanted to go to church of dunno wat Mary at Bukit Batok. I asked if they knew the way cause I told them I dunno. The right way to do is to take out my street directory and search ....knn waste time right. So I just key in church into my GPS.... bingo st mary pop up I press GO , reached and collected my fare. Save time , save hassle Even if customer knows the way, it is a hassle for them to direct you all the way. Imagine you yourself sitting behind enjoying a taxi ride, do you want to direct the taxi all the way. What you want is just to relax and let the driver drives you to the destination...
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The question is, now do that you know where is st Mary, do you still GPS to guide you there in near future? I bet many will still forget it, because human brain lock in memory of hardship and pain more than joy and happiness,
To learn about churches, just drive a few sunday morning shift, get fark and receive lecture and sermon by those christian on board, by then, you should know nearly all churches in Singapore, unless those orthodox ones. You tell st mary, st anne or whatever saint, I do not even need a glance at anything, already become a saint of TD
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Of course you do not need GPS if you know that hill top church . It also depends where you are at that moment the pax board your taxi You may be familiar with bukit batok but may need some guidance to get out of the place where you are situated. GPS comes into play Once you are nearer to bukit batok, your brain will take over no hassle
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My own rule of driving taxi......pax don't know the place, I also don't know, NEXT please.......
For me, I don't like to waste time......but the chances of both don't know the place is only mild percentage, can say about 5% of total daily journey......
And it always happen short distance, ie Mrt pick up, neighborhood shopping centre pick up....etc these are places where pax will take train and transit by taxi, so for me avoid at all cost.......
"Uncle, very nearby only, but I don't know the place".....
knn, don't know but can say nearby, later uncle bring you sight seeing......
Key in GPS to find for you? Jiak bah liao for less than 10 fare......
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Originally posted by bowah:
The question is, now do that you know where is st Mary, do you still GPS to guide you there in near future? I bet many will still forget it, because human brain lock in memory of hardship and pain more than joy and happiness,
To learn about churches, just drive a few sunday morning shift, get fark and receive lecture and sermon by those christian on board, by then, you should know nearly all churches in Singapore, unless those orthodox ones. You tell st mary, st anne or whatever saint, I do not even need a glance at anything, already become a saint of TD
But the trend now, is not to be saints of Churchs
But rather the masters of Schools
cos recently MOE openly declosed raised in 8% salary for teachers
MOE: Salary adjustments for Education Officers and Allied Educators from 1 Sept
®Copyright MediaCorp
More than 26 thousand in-service teachers and about 500 Allied Educators in several grades will receive a salary adjustment with effect from tomorrow.
The Education Ministry said the adjustments will ensure that the salaries of its teachers and allied educators keep pace with the market and commensurate with their roles and responsibilities.
Teachers and senior teachers will receive an 8% salary adjustment.
Teachers can expect an increase of up to $550 in their gross monthly salaries while the increase for SEOs is up to $830.
The allied educators will receive salary adjustments ranging from 5% to 15%.
They can look forward to an increase of up to $700 in their monthly salaries.
Eligible officers will receive the salary adjustments from their September 2012 payroll onwards. -
i think GPS quite handy for taking call bookings,i just key in postcode,off i go!no need to think how to go,sometimes it even take shortcuts thro carparks!of cos some places no need GPS!eg.AP or Vivo or MBSi!
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But for now, be masters of Marina area during the F1 period will reap immediate results
Check out the LTA website, route closures are out :
http://app.lta.gov.sg/corp_press_content.asp?start=56vzh6ueu4cvi06efg7mhu2eg0phv4xmf8f5x97hdz0i5w4558
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Originally posted by Rbs70:
My own rule of driving taxi......pax don't know the place, I also don't know, NEXT please.......
For me, I don't like to waste time......but the chances of both don't know the place is only mild percentage, can say about 5% of total daily journey......
And it always happen short distance, ie Mrt pick up, neighborhood shopping centre pick up....etc these are places where pax will take train and transit by taxi, so for me avoid at all cost.......
"Uncle, very nearby only, but I don't know the place".....
knn, don't know but can say nearby, later uncle bring you sight seeing......
Key in GPS to find for you? Jiak bah liao for less than 10 fare......
spot on...with a GPS you can ferry them right reject pax means one trip gone and $$$ gone plus waste time on boarding your taxi, converse and then unboard. -
you guys are amazing . one discussion abt GPS nia can have so many posts. hellooooo wan use GPS use la , dont want to use GPS dont use lorrrr.
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Hahaha......all tio kang liao.......
How about this......
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Originally posted by decent02:
The right way is to go towards the flyer
then turn left
a road parallel to nicoll highway
that is the shortest
use ecp …. longer way lah my bro
Thanks. Slowly must learn. Me still Road Idiot.
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If you do not have GPS and you do not know the place how! Tell pax to take another taxi? If passenger complains,Taxi company will ask driver why never use Street Directory. lol. GPS is an electronic street Directory. But even Taxi Company still run by Old School methods.
Just imagine pax tell you to go to a place and you refer to Street Dirtectory. While driving you make a wrong turn and continue driving until you or the pax realises this. How? Find a near spot to park safely and refer to the map again. If possible, stop at bus stop and wait for the next bus then ask bus driver for directions.
Street Directory is the Old School. GPS is the New School. Does not mean those who use GPS are idiots. Just like Old School use street Directory and learn slowly, GPS users will also learn slowly.
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Originally posted by Rbs70:
Hahaha......all tio kang liao.......
How about this......
This fellow got many wives but only love and listen to one.
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sometimes by looking at the GPS,u will know which road ur on,also any blocks or houses or buildings u pass thro,the numbers automatically shown.there r many a time,when the GPS save me fr the passengers!
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New drivers are New Drivers. They must learn the routes. GPS or Street Directory. Old School, New School is no different. Difference is just in the technology.
But this forum full of Old School Hardcore people. They hate GPS. They love Street Directory.
Must get Traffic Police to make sure they always carry the latest Street Directory with them ALWAYS!!