China News Service, December 12 (Zhang Jian, Wu Linyu) Recently, the public phone booths on the streets of Shanghai have a new "mission", and they have turned into a "taxi booth", which has attracted widespread attention.

On the morning of December 11, a reporter from Chinanews.com came to this phone booth at the intersection of Yuyuan Road and Jiangsu Road in Changning District. Many citizens were watching to learn how to use it.

Aunt Zhong, a Shanghai citizen, told reporters, “This is very convenient. After entering a mobile phone number and a verification code, it will be dispatched as soon as a taxi. It will be out as soon as possible. It is very clear at a glance.”

Li Danping, Product Manager of the Business Innovation Center of China Telecom Shanghai, was interviewed by a reporter from Chinanews.com. Photo by Zhang Jian

　　It turned out that this is a phone booth "Smart Screen for Calling a Car" jointly created by the telecommunications department and the Shanghai Taxi Platform, which provides a convenient and new way to travel for the majority of Shanghai residents.

According to the staff of the relevant telecommunications department, this type of car-hailing device only needs to click a button to call a car or swipe the face, and a taxi will respond within a second, which greatly facilitates the general public.

Li Danping, product manager of the Business Innovation Center of China Telecom Shanghai, gave reporters a detailed introduction to the process of calling a car: "This is to call a car with a face, or a mobile phone number. Let's try to call a car with a face. Then I click this to call a car, right. Confirm. Then we are waiting to call the taxi, we can see that it is very fast, we called the taxi in one second, then its license plate number and estimated time of arrival are displayed to us intuitively. "

Photographed by Zhang Jian from a public phone booth where you can take a taxi on the streets of Shanghai

　　It is reported that in addition to making calls and one-key taxi calls, the public phone booth also has functions such as linking WIFI to the Internet and charging mobile phones. At the same time, in order to provide assistance to citizens whose mobile phones suddenly run out of power, you can also make a free call for three minutes. .

According to the telecommunications staff, the public telephone booth was upgraded and transformed into a "one-key calling public telephone booth", no APP operation is required throughout the process, no need to enter the starting point and destination information, and 114 can also be dialed from the public telephone booth, which can be called by a human agent. taxi.

Li Danping said frankly that smart travel is related to the happiness index of every citizen, especially the elderly. He hopes to help them set aside a "slow lane" for the travel difficulties of the elderly who need the most care and care.

　　At present, in addition to Yuyuan Road in Changning District, the phone booth "one-key calling smart screen" at No. 741, Fuzhou Road, Huangpu District, the southeast corner of Hankou Road, Xizang Middle Road, and No. 1680 Huaihai Middle Road have also been officially opened for operation.

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