Eleven hours. What is left?
Eleven hours and twenty minutes on the clock. Two hundred and fourteen miles. Here is the whole day, and what was actually left at the end of it.
Example day. The Port Authority rates further down this page are real. Everything with a dollar sign in it is an example.
RidePilot is a phone app for New York City TLC drivers. It does this arithmetic every day, out of what you already do anyway.
Open it right now
It is the app, running here in this page. Tap it and drive it. Open the days, open the tolls, ask the Assistant a question. Nothing to install, nothing to sign up for, and nothing you do in there touches anything.
This runs on a demo account, so every figure inside it is an example, the same way the figures on this page are. The app is the real one.
There is no account to make today, no card, and nothing to download, because there is nothing to download yet. One number, and a text from me when there is.
Money that vanished
You went from Manhattan to New Jersey. EZ-Pass charged you nothing for that direction, because the charge sits on the other side. Lyft still owes you the credit for it. That is $16.79 at peak and $14.79 off peak, and those two are the real Port Authority rates, not an example.
RidePilot catches the crossing as you make it, prices it against the rate table, and puts the two numbers next to each other. One column for what was charged. One column for what was credited. You are not doing arithmetic, you are looking for a blank.
Check your last Jersey run. If that credit is not sitting next to the charge, nobody is going to come and tell you.
There is no account to make today, no card, and nothing to download, because there is nothing to download yet. One number, and a text from me when there is.
It keeps asking
The morning after a Port Authority crossing, RidePilot asks you one question. You answer it in a tap.
Answer "Never paid" and the amount does not go into a report you will never open. It goes to the top of your dashboard in amber and it stays there, with the oldest one named by crossing and by how many days it has been open, until you are paid or you tell it the matter is settled.
The $31.58 below is two crossings. One at peak, one off peak. That is how fast it adds up, and how quietly.
Example amounts.
Decisions today
That is the same day at the top of this page, divided by the clock that was actually running. It is not a bad number. It is just not the number most drivers would have said out loud.
Once you can see it, ninety minutes for a nineteen dollar ride stops being a bad feeling and becomes a decision. So does go home, or one more hour.
And an hour is not an hour. Here is the same measure by day of the week.
Example week. Saturday made $61.50 an hour and Tuesday made $34.60. Same car, same driver, same city, twenty seven dollars an hour apart.
What the car takes
Insurance, parking, the vehicle itself and everything else on the list come to $1,833 due this month. RidePilot spreads that across the month so every day you drive carries its share, which is the line in the hero you probably skipped.
Example bills.
Each driving day also gets a grade for what the driving cost the car. A day that felt fine at the pump can still come back a D.
Example grades.
Who built this
It is not a company. It is me.
I built this because I could not answer what a day actually made, and nothing I could buy would tell me. Nobody at a software company has sat two hours in the JFK cell lot.
Every screen on this page is from the app I use in my own car.
Straight answers
No. Nothing connects to Uber or Lyft. You log what you made, or you say it out loud to the Assistant, and the tolls detect themselves on the phone.
No. iPhone, and New York City. The toll rates and the TLC rules are New York metro.
Miles come off your odometer, not a background trace. Two readings a day, the one you start with and the one you finish with.
It will be a paid app. There is nothing to pay today and nothing to cancel.
Nowhere yet. It is not on the App Store. That is what the form below is for.
There is no account to make today, no card, and nothing to download, because there is nothing to download yet. One number, and a text from me when there is.