MyTeksi Smartphone Application

Assalamualaikum everyone,

Did anyone miss me yet?  Sorry my friends, have not been managing my time well enough.

Today I thought of talking about safety. As single and independent ladies, we often have to carry out many necessary errands by ourselves.  One of those errands is sending our car for service.  As a normal middle income earner, I am a user of our local car manufacturer therefore when the service for my car is due, I have to go to the service center to ensure my car will always be in working order to not just bring me around but to keep me safe.  I do feel safer when I am in my car, most of the time that is.

I found out about the MyTeksi application on smartphones some time back from a friend.  But it is only recently, I started using it.  Here is what I do when I need to service my car:

1. Drive my car to the service center and check it in for service
2. Leave my car at the service center. 
3. Execute MyTeksi application from my phone. The initial screen comes-out.  Specify my "From:" and "To:" location. I always select "Budget" teksi.  Then click <Next>. See picture1 below.
4. Another screen comes-out.  This screen confirms your destination, the estimated distance of travel in KM, Estimated amount you will need to pay for this journey, etc. Click on <Confirm Booking> if the details on this screen is per as what you wanted.  See picture2 below.
5. Another screen will comes-out after this to tell you the taxi driver's name and his/her taxi plate number.
6. Now I just wait for about 10 minutes or so for the taxi to come and to pick me up so that I can go back to office to do work.  Just wait at the waiting room until the taxi comes.
7. Once the taxi comes (you will know the taxi is for you because the taxi plate number is already displayed in the MyTeksi application just now), just hop-in and head to office.
8. Note: You can always re-launch the application again if you have left it idle for some time.  Another way to hold the information is by capturing the print screen.  For Android phones like mine, you press the <Power> button and the <Volume down> button simulataneously.  The print screen will be available either in your camera lists or your file/document folder in your phone.
9. Usually, my car is ready at noon if I sent it in the morning.  So when my car is ready to be picked up, I just book my taxi via MyTeksi application again from my phone.

 



MyTeksi Picture1

 

MyTeksi Picture2

One thing to note though, MyTeksi application is really new.  Most of the taxi drivers that use it are veterans/old timers who are not very Smartphone savvy. So they have problem to locate your location using their GPS that comes with the MyTeksi application.  I have experienced a taxi driver calling me to ask me where I am located.  He gives me some reasons which I thought is rather ridiculous but me being the nice me, of course, give him directions to reach me.  He was not entirely very late just additional 10 mins late.

What this shows is that when we confirm the booking, our information is transmitted to the selected taxi driver just as we also get the information about the taxi.

Another feature of MyTeksi that can be useful is that you can have additional information to your account on whom should be notified once you have reach your destination.  My friend put her husband's number for this.  So when she reaches her destination, an automatic message/sms is sent to her husband to notify him.  Although, I don't use this feature yet, I may want my children to use it in the future if MyTeksi application still exist then.

So if you want to use MyTeksi application, go to "Play Store" for Android or "App Store" for Apple, search for MyTeksi application, then install it on your smartphone.  Register an Account with MyTeksi and provide your details accordingly.

There you have it!  I hope you will find this application as useful as I do. May Allah always keep us safe from harm that we know of or from something that we do not know of.  Sesungguhnya Allah maha mengetahui dan kita tidak.  Thank you Allah, Thank you All.  Until next time, good night, sweet dreams....