Pupil creates app to help with 'taxi maths'

A fight that broke out in a taxi because of"taxi maths" inspired a grade 11 pupil to create an app to end miscalculations.

Sphephelo Mabena, 17, from Daveyton in Johannesburg, said his app named 4local helps those who get flustered by counting change in taxis. “Last year on my way back from school a verbal fight broke out among passengers and it was all because of taxi maths. Then I thought to myself that maybe I can solve this problem by creating an app,” he said.

Sphephelo, who attends St Francis College in Benoni, said he taught himself how to make apps by watching YouTube videos. “The first step was learning computer programming in Java. Then I used the application to develop android apps,” he said.Sphephelo said the user has to fill in three inputs which are the taxi fee per passenger, amount sent forward and the number of passengers included in the amount. The app will then calculate the change for the user.“4local also gives you an analysis on your transactions, for example it will tell you that there is a passenger that did not pay.

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