Opening Door For a Fantasy Experience in Taxi Booking App
Tags: news, ai, api, tooling
Published: 2023-02-24 07:50:13

Do you believe in the saying “**Little things make a difference**”?

I do.

I know how a simple element can enhance the user experience and engagement of a mobile application. 

Not get our point? 

Check this blog to find all the fun and fantasy stuff that a taxi booking application can do, especially an Uber clone app, and how it’ll be beneficial for your taxi business. 

Let’s get in.

## Revamping Legacy App Flow of Taxi Booking

Opening an app, entering destinations, choosing a vehicle, booking a driver…tataa…your cab is there for you. What a boring process!

Your traditional online taxi booking process will not be super good in the future!

It must be revamped. It must have some super cool stuff like animation, 3D map models, an AR-based navigation panel, voice-based chatbots, face recognition-based driver and customer verification, RFID support for seamless payment even offline, and others.

Let’s check how these stuffs can make your boring online taxi booking process a super cool thing that everyone wants to do frequently.

## Give a Treat to the Eyes First
First of all, the welcome screen of your taxi booking application must be attractive. This can make a huge impact on the customer conversion and retention process.

In this, a dynamic welcome screen can play well more than a static page. These dynamic welcome screens are possible with [SplashScreen APIs](https://developer.android.com/develop/ui/views/launch/splash-screen) for Android 12 and higher devices. This API enables the next level of app launching animations like in-app motion at launch, a splash screen showing your app icon, and a transition. 

For instance, take a look at this welcome screen animation available on [Dribbble](https://dribbble.com/shots/4134849-Welcome-screen-login?utm_source=Clipboard_Shot&utm_campaign=aradisic&utm_content=Welcome%20screen%20%2F%20login&utm_medium=Social_Share&utm_source=Clipboard_Shot&utm_campaign=aradisic&utm_content=Welcome%20screen%20%2F%20login&utm_medium=Social_Share). Interesting  Right? 

![Fantasy Experience in Taxi Booking App](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/as2l3czj81jpts2i4206.gif)

Now let’s check how we can take advantage of a 3D map model for a taxi booking application.

## Include 3D Mapping Models
In the current scenario, 2D maps are so boring as VR and AR are emerging rapidly. What about integrating 3D maps with your taxi booking app?

It’ll be amazing. Customers can enjoy this feature by experiencing 3D models of real places while entering their destination. In case, your end-users are tourists, then they can easily identify the destination they want to go to.

With the support of the [WebGL Overlay View](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/maps-platform/using-new-webgl-powered-maps-features) of Google, it’s possible. More than this, Google is expected to launch its new features of google Maps like immersive views of 3D locations in the Map, Time Slider, and others soon. These can provide a more realistic experience than 3D images.
 
Let’s imagine a customer who is a student who wants to go to the museum in your taxi. He taps into your taxi booking app and checks the Museum’s multidimensional view like a real one, which means a few birds fly over the top of the museum, clouds pass over the sky, and the climate of the live image change suddenly as rainy as in real-world raindrops fall to wet the ground.

Let’s see how it’ll be; a video from Google for the event named “[Live from Paris](https://www.youtube.com/live/yLWXJ22LUEc?feature=share)” on Feb 08, 2023, can provide the visual for the above-said concept.

Vimeo: {% vimeo 801872136 %}

By providing real-time weather reports and multi-dimensional views of the destination, your taxi booking app can stick with the passengers’ minds. Next time, surely they’ll open your app when they need a taxi.

## The Amazing AR
Do you know AR tech can boost the customer retention rate for your taxi business? Surely, we’re not kidding; it can.

In recent days AR is a great tool for marketing a business.
It can instantly seek customers’ attention instantly by unlocking the fantasy visuals through their devices. Many companies including **Starbucks**, [Coca-Cola](https://youtu.be/j2So_w-ZSaI), [19 Crimes Wines](https://gbl.19crimes.com/pages/19-crimes-living-wine-labels), [IKEA](https://www.ikea.com/au/en/customer-service/mobile-apps/say-hej-to-ikea-place-pub1f8af050), and many other famous brands have been utilizing AR technology as their great marketing tool. 

Let’s back to the point; for your taxi booking application, you can include AR technology to help your passengers to get the right way with a live view by connecting their live location and Map routes. It’ll be helpful for passengers especially for tourists even after a ride completion. Through this, you can create value for your business.

If your taxi booking application has this feature, your customers can get navigation and mapping assistance with your taxi booking application. Currently, [Live View on Google Maps](https://support.google.com/maps/answer/9332056?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid#zippy=%2Corient-yourself-with-live-view%2Cnavigate-with-live-view%2Cfind-people-with-live-view%2Cimprove-accuracy-of-your-location-with-live-view) has been providing this kind of [AR mapping and navigation](https://arvr.google.com/ar/) support for its users. Once the firm releases an efficient live view API you can integrate it with your taxi booking application. 

Here is a sample of the AR facility in Google Maps. (Credits: This clip was taken from [Google Live from Paris ](https://www.youtube.com/live/yLWXJ22LUEc?feature=share)event video)

Vimeo: {% vimeo 801873407 %}

## Want “Jarvis” for Your Taxi Booking Application?
Do you want to include Jarvis (a fictional AI character) with your taxi booking application? Why not? It’s a great idea to do.

With an AI voice chatbot integration, your taxi booking app can interact with your customers easily. It’ll help customers to spend their time amidst their traveling in the cab funny and interactive. 

Customers can ask anything about their destinations like interesting facts, recent news coverages, and others. Just by asking vocally the passengers can get answers easily. Mostly it attracts specific categories of passengers like family on a vacation trip, explorers, business class people, and tourists. 

With this feature, the passenger can ask, “**Hey bot, tell me some interesting facts about my destination place**”

The bot will reply, “**Sure, here it’s…..**”

Super cool? right?

## All These Will Be In Our Hands Soon

The scenarios explained in this blog may seem like a fantasy now. But, all these will be in our hands in the very near future. I see the recent partnership between [Uber and Google](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/google-and-uber-deepen-partnership-to-reimagine-the-customer-experience-301744796.html), as a sign of advancements in taxi booking apps to deliver fantasy experiences to the end-users.

As per Cision PR Newswire source, the CEO of Google delivered a few words about this partnership and said that Google will support Uber with cloud infrastructure, artificial intelligence, data analytics, and edge networking solutions to improve the customer experience of Uber. 

So, Uber will be an efficient player in the future taxi-hailing market also as it prepares itself with recent tech solutions.

## Do More with Your Taxi Booking App
There are many more options and possibilities with a mobile application to enhance the customer experience in your taxi service. For example, enabling contactless payments with RFID, replacing OTP-based passenger and driver verification with face recognition, etc.

With these technologies, taxi booking applications can unlock a fantasy world for end customers. By doing this, you can increase customer engagement and brand recognition easily. 

And the best part is, all these kinds of advancements can also be done with a readymade app solution like the Uber clone app script. 

We at **Uplogic Technologies** are including unique features with our [Uber clone script](https://www.spotnrides.com/) named “**SpotnRides**” and deliver customized ready-made app solutions for taxi businesses and other on-demand services. For further taxi booking app development-related queries contact our experts.