Location Update for Passengers to see progress + Navigation
It would be nice to be able to share location progress with my passengers, so they have a better ETA for the pickup locations down the road and maybe can even follow the progress on their integrated map. I am driving often from Vancouver, starting at UBC and depending on traffic I will be at the pickup locations across the City not exactly when it was predicted, sometimes I am out easy 20 minutes. As drivers are not allowed to use mobile devices while driving it would help If I could just broadcast my driving progress to my passengers autonomously, so I do not have to keep them manually up to date about my ETA while driving. If you want to go further with this, it would be cool to have a google or Waze type navigation integration or use, that would utilize traffic information etc. to get me to the predetermined pickup locations the fastest way possible.
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Hi Arne,
Thanks for your feedback and we agree it would be wonderful to be able to share your location in real-time with passengers so they know where you are.
The challenge here is mostly technical: this feature is very hard to build, and while we're up for a challenge, we have a lot of other features to build first, and it's unlikely we'll get to building this anytime soon.
In the meantime, we recommend sending an update to your passengers before you depart your initial location. We've got a feature that lets you send predefined messages on our app, I've shared a screenshot below.
Flo
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