Deterred From Entering A Phony Lyft Driver.

Submitted 5 years ago

Remember the "Light up signs" trademark to the company? That you attach to your car?
We are going to make a usable hybrid that makes it harder to impersonate a lyft driver.
1) a new driver will have a Lift onduty sign shipped to them and sign deposits are taken out of the first paychecks until sign cost iscovered.
If the employee leaves under good terms and sign is undamaged, they get deposits back.
(NOW- this part is tech from the trucking industry)
2) In the Inside Top of the sign, is a satellite gps transponder (classified, employees are not told) - (semi truck trailers have these that activate when trailer is plugged into the tractor- Qualcomm gps locator network)
3) it's recognizable like a taxi cab
4) if stolen its tracked like LoJack
5) just like trucking- a history of travel is downloaded to parent company by Qualcomm.....in the events missing/murder, police have a trail by theif impersonating Lyft.
Is it hack proof? No, if you can forge your own sign, but now it's harder.