Deaf/HOH Communication with the Cab Service

[GraysonPeddie]

Hi I have a question. How does someone who's deaf or hard of hearing use the cab service? One of the services is Yellow Cab, although the website seems to be under construction and it looked like someone who's a beginner to developing a website but no hard feelings.

Anaheim Yellow Cab Company

Since I'm a bit of hard-of-hearing, even if I do wear hearing aids, I do tend to have trouble speaking/hearing through a phone, so does most of the cab services have the ability to text message?

I live in Tallahassee, FL and plan to take a cab like every week for groceries (even though it's 1.8 miles, which I feel like losing weight, my groceries can go bad from the hot weather).

My other alternative is I could use my Pocket PC PPC6700 (Alltel) and have Internet always on, my battery will drain about 5 hours. My PPC6700 does have Wi-Fi capability, but I doubt many grocery stores (and other stores near the grocery store) doesn't have a Wi-Fi access point (that bridges to the Internet). So if I do have Internet in my Pocket PC, I can use the relay service, but even if I'm a touch-typist (desktop/notebook keyboard), I'm a slow thumb-typist (I could use a Bluetooth-enabled keyboard, but this requires my back to bend forward due to my visual impairement).

So what is your primerary method of communication with the cab service, if any?

 

[JClarke]

Hi I have a question. How does someone who's deaf or hard of hearing use the cab service? One of the services is Yellow Cab, although the website seems to be under construction and it looked like someone who's a beginner to developing a website but no hard feelings.

Anaheim Yellow Cab Company

Since I'm a bit of hard-of-hearing, even if I do wear hearing aids, I do tend to have trouble speaking/hearing through a phone, so does most of the cab services have the ability to text message?

I live in Tallahassee, FL and plan to take a cab like every week for groceries (even though it's 1.8 miles, which I feel like losing weight, my groceries can go bad from the hot weather).

My other alternative is I could use my Pocket PC PPC6700 (Alltel) and have Internet always on, my battery will drain about 5 hours. My PPC6700 does have Wi-Fi capability, but I doubt many grocery stores (and other stores near the grocery store) doesn't have a Wi-Fi access point (that bridges to the Internet). So if I do have Internet in my Pocket PC, I can use the relay service, but even if I'm a touch-typist (desktop/notebook keyboard), I'm a slow thumb-typist (I could use a Bluetooth-enabled keyboard, but this requires my back to bend forward due to my visual impairement).

So what is your primerary method of communication with the cab service, if any?

Grayson, they should have the ability to have TXT messaging System which I have the TXT messagining System for the Canberra Cabs (in my hometown of Australia) and I have not used it yet as it has been in use for few years, some deaf people in my hometown said that it is good service, despite the cabs should have a LCD monitors in the back so we all can tell the computer where we want to go and the computer tells the driver the desination and all.

 

[MetroGuy03]

I use taxi cab services often. I call them though VRS then I write it down and show it to the cab driver where I want to go to. Sometime I wave at taxi cab drivers when they passed me and they stopped and let me get in. I never had a problem with taxi cab services.