[Explanation] Recently, the public phone booths on the streets of Shanghai have a new "mission", which has become a "taxi booth", which has attracted widespread attention.
On the morning of December 11, a reporter from China News Agency came to this telephone booth at the intersection of Yuyuan Road and Jiangsu Road in Changning District. Many citizens were watching to learn how to use it.
[Concurrent] Shanghai Minzhong Auntie
This is very convenient. After entering a mobile phone number and a verification code, it will come out (rental) and the car will be dispatched.
It will be out as soon as possible, very good.
[The same period] Shanghai Min Xia old man
Now the phone booths are fully utilized. I used to make a domestic call, and now I can call a car, which is very convenient for people of our age.
[Explanation] It turned out that this is a phone booth "one-click smart phone call screen" jointly created by the telecommunications department and the Shanghai taxi platform, which provides a new convenient way of travel for the majority of Shanghai residents.
According to the staff of the relevant telecommunications department, this type of car-hailing device just clicks a button to call a taxi or swipes the face, and there will be a taxi response immediately, which greatly facilitates the general public.
[Concurrent] Li Danping, Product Manager, Business Innovation Center, China Telecom Shanghai
If you call a car with your face or your mobile phone number, let's try to call a car with your face, then I will click this to call a car and confirm.
So we are now waiting to call a taxi, we can see that it is very fast, we called this taxi in one second, then its license plate number and estimated time of arrival are displayed to us intuitively.
[Explanation] It is reported that in addition to making calls and one-key taxi calls, the public phone booth also has functions such as linking to WIFI to access 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, calls here can also be free of charge. Talk 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.
[Concurrent] Li Danping, Product Manager, Business Innovation Center, China Telecom Shanghai
Smart travel is related to the happiness index of each of our citizens, especially the elderly.
Then we hope to help them set aside a "slow lane" for the travel difficulties of this group of elderly people who need the most care and care.
[Explanation] At present, in addition to Yuyuan Road in Changning District, the phone booth "one-click smart phone call 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.
Zhang Jian Report from Shanghai
Editor in charge: [Yue Chuan]