We used to have a radio and a data unit in the cars for 'taxi' work, which used to work fairly ok if you didn't park in a 'dead' spot or go out of range of the transmitter.
Now 'because we can' the radio's and data units have been ripped out and replaced with an app on a phone. Suppose to be brilliant, which in some respects it is better than the 'old' way of doing things. ie you never go out of range is one example, another is the app has a 'meter' which tracks you via GPS, so the at the end of the journey the fare is displayed in big red numbers, so no disputing the fare!
Downside the app hammers the battery, even when plugged into the charger in my car the battery still gradually goes down! But when its using the data connection and GPS all the time, that's expected I guess
Another downside is, if you should actually use the phone to actually make a phone call, better make it quick, coz the app carnt receive a job if your on a phone call!
Old system use to send to the data unit a map which showed you the pickup point and the destination which was handy if you couldn't quite remember where exactly they were and saved you looking in a map book.
New system uses google maps to show you the way to both places, which is great if it works....on my phone every time I hit the 'get me there' button, google maps use to fire and then complain it couldn't connect to maps.
So ive just spent the last hour googling the problem and checking settings, which all seemed ok. Then I found a web page that suggested deleting the cache......so I found a button on my phone that said 'delete all cache for all apps' so that's what I did.
Google maps appears to working correctly now from the 'taxi' app so i'll see how it goes this week
This morning spent an hour fixing the problem of my notebook not shutting down correctly after the win10 update.
So, thats 2 hours today of my life sorting out problems caused by 'advancing' technology. Aint it great!!
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