Never really thought about any kind of bracket but, as X-ray says, people in the back would need to lean between the centre console towards the dashboard (er, no) or you'd have to take the reader out of the bracket anyway. So a bracket like a mobile phone bracket is probably OK, but like most drivers, I suspect, I just keep my two card readers in the wee cubby in front of the gear lever, and fish it out if a card payment is required. It's normally just a case of someone in the back waving a phone or card in front of it, so it's just a case of holding it up over the seats while they do the contactless bit, and if they need to put the card in then they'll just take it from you and do the necessary (or sometimes shove it in while you're holding it
) and then hand it back to you. Might sound a bit cumbersome, but in reality it's not much different to a passenger handing you cash from the back seat, then handing them any change back.As for tipping, not sure *precisely* how that works, but sounds like a potential minefield, and I think you'd basically need to ask them if they want to tip and/or the process with using the card reader would become a lot more cumbersome - just no
Of course, some will tell you to add a tip to the card reader amount when you tell them the fare, so you just add it on to the figure you key in. But, as any taxi driver will tell you, people are a lot less likely to tip using this method than with cash. If you read about Uber drivers not getting many tips, it's not so much an Uber thing (as 'experts' try to tell us) than an automated payments thing. And indeed that's one reason a lot of taxi drivers aren't keen on card payments, but these days it's not really worth being cash only (although there still seems to be the odd dinosaur around where the licensing authorities don't mandate card readers), because you'd be losing a shedload of jobs, basically.
