#autocab

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Uber made a big announcement in August 2020, when they revealed that they are going to overtake Autocab which is a British Company who provides online taxi-booking services.

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UK will investigate Uber’s plan to buy British rival Autocab

In August 2020, Uber announced that it would buy a British company that had positioned itself as the taxi industry’s answer to ride-hailing. Today, the UK’s competition regulator said that it would examine the proposed deal and its impact upon the co…

I've been playing with Software Defined Radio for a little while, and was always curious how the Autocab radio's work that send jobs back and forth to the various drivers. I put the two together and can now watch real time job information from various taxi companies that operate in my area.

Using a simple RTL based HDTV tuner and a couple of bits of software its possible to tune to a wide range of frequencies. The taxi signals are usually in the 160-180Mhz band.

Software

SDRSharp (http://sdrsharp.com/)

Taxi MDT Decoder (http://sourceforge.net/projects/taxidecoder/)

VB-Audio Virtual Driver

Set up the Virtual Audio Driver. This is a bit like an internal audio patch panel for your computer, you’ll be pushing audio data into the pipe from SDRSharp and reading from it using MDT Decoder. It behaves like a microphone and speaker device would, just internally.

It will register some new audio devices. Select the Cable Input as your output audio device in SDRSharp and Cable Output in Taxi MDT Decoder.

Here is SDRSharp tuned into a local frequency:

Start SDRSharp going, and you should start to see data filter into the MDT Decoder as and when events start happening.

A screenshot of some of the Taxi MDT Decoder in action:

Logs

Some of the logs are reasonably interesting. Apparently you should never pick up and drop off outside the Arndale Centre on double yellows, as tickets get given:

[L]19:05:32 (BAD CRC !) Autocab variant (0x4c7d) : System 255 : Ident 65535 : Message Type 1 : Length 74 : [L]DONT DROP OFF OR …PICK UP ON DOUBLE …YELLOWS AT ARNDALE …FINES BEEN GIVEN

And if you get picked up from a police station, expect to pay up front:

[L]18:54:39 (BAD CRC !) Autocab variant (0x4c7d) : System 255 : Ident 175 : Message Type 1 : Length 178 : [L]18:54+ C [L]DN: 0 [L]CN: marik [L]Fr: KILLINGBECK POLICE STATION, Foundry Lane, LS14 6NN [L]NB: cash up front agreed [L]To: FOUNDRY PLACE, Leeds, LS9 6DA [L]ER: [L]TEL: (RING) [L]…0………>…$…

For more logs, see taxidata

Summary

Lots of unsecured data in the wireless world. It wouldn’t be too hard to turn this around and start sending spoofed messages. Can’t be bothered calling your local taxi company? Book yourself a job…

Want to remind taxi drivers to drive sensibly, after being cut up, using only the choicest words available in English… send a broadcast notification.