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These certainly seem more professional (they're marked PPE and apparently made by a supplier to the NHS), but whether they're more effective than the £7 home-mader is a good question


Chesterfield taxi company is the first in town to introduce protective screens to safeguard passengers and drivers through pandemic and make them feel safe

https://www.derbyshiretimes.co.uk/healt ... fe-2679814

A Chesterfield taxi company has installed special screens in its vehicles to reassure passengers and keep its drivers safe through the ongoing pandemic.


Image: Derbyshire Times

A-Line Taxis, based in Stephenson Place, is in the process of installing the screens in all of its vehicles, as part of a bid to ensure that key workers can travel to their jobs in the safest manner possible.

The transparent screens effectively ‘cut the vehicle in half’, ensuring that both driver and passenger can travel in safety without spreading the coronavirus – allowing essential workers to get to their places of employment, while also ensuring that drivers and stay safe and earn a living through the pandemic lockdown.

It is on top of other of the other measures that drivers are already using, including having hand sanitisers available and fully disinfecting vehicles between each customer, and A-Line is the first cab firm in the town to install the protective screens – provided by a local firm that is also working with the NHS.


Image: Derbyshire Times

Nicola Aldersley, account manager with the firm, said it is the first cab firm in town to introduce the screens.

She said: “The screen is a bit like a rain covering for a pram. You can see through it but it sits in the centre of the vehicle and essentially splits the car in half, and we have been working with a Chesterfield company that has been supplying for the NHS.

“Some of these vehicles are already out in the community and it’s given our customers the confidence and it’s given our customers more confidence if they need to travel into work or go to the supermarket, and our drivers are able to come out to work and feel safe.

“Taxi drivers are essential workers as well because they are getting other people to work – Chesterfield has one of the biggest Amazon warehouses in the country and we are helping to get those people to work.”

She added that many drivers are being forced out onto the roads through the current lockdown because they have families to feed.

“The government is telling people to stay at home and our business is based on people going out,” Nicola added.

I'm sure

https://www.flexippe.com/product/transport-screening/

£35+Vat

Five minute install with a pair of scissors

They've only got supplies for certain cars at the moment, though (see list at bottom of link above), but it says they're aiming to make them for more models

they do the zafira c not b

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

Look I take my hat off to everyone who is trying their best to make things safer for drivers and safer for punters. But I'm yet to be convinced any of the screens I've seen will add or subtract to the lives lost during this mess we are all in.

Sadly.

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IDFIMH

I think it's more about making you feel safer the other day I went to pick up a prescription the chemists has had a wall built (plywood and glass) splitting the shop in half but you have to wait until your prescription is through the hatch and then pick it up and leave and the girl serving looked just as miserable

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

Wonder when the ministry for futile gestures will be up and running...

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Former taxi driver

The only VW they've listed is the 2005-2010 Passat - I've got the 2014 model, and there's actually a newer one than that

Don't know that it would make a whole lot of difference, though, assuming the various model updates aren't that different in terms of interior dimensions, but presumably it depends on the precise model - doubt if the three Passats are all that different in terms of dimensions.

But I'm assuming the models that they're listing are the ones they've done already, so presumably they'll be listing more as more people are buying them.


And there's been quite a lot of stuff recently about it not being an airborne carrier as much as was thought - it's surfaces that are the main carrier.

Of course, different experts will take different stances on that kind of thing, and the truth is probably that even the boffins don't know for sure.

But like everything else it's not an exact science - like the lockdown generally, it won't stop people getting it, it just slows down transmission (flattens the curve, as they were saying) and thus makes it more manageable.

So these screens might help a little bit, or maybe not at all, but we'll probably never know for sure

And if it makes people *feel* safer, then doubt if that's a bad thing, even if it doesn't help much in terms of transmission.

I can see the logic of what edders said - but I'm not sure feelings can cope with a deadly and contagious virus

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Wonder if it's a good or bad idea to keep the windows open?

And when you’re doing 70 down a dual carriageway and the punter in the back opens the window....

Gone with the wind. (£35 + vat...)

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Former taxi driver

One of the boffins at one of the Coronavirus Briefings said ventilation was good.

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IDFIMH

And the plastic screen suffocates the punter.

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IDFIMH