She is going to want to know which cabs are potentially more dangerous — yellow cabs, green cabs, livery cars, Uber cars?
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These data showed that yellow cabs' drivers were driving in an identical manner to those of blue cabs.
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While Brazilian cabs are largely cheaper than cabs in many other countries, Uber has managed to undercut those prices by 35 percent.
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The drive is about 10 minutes, and black cabs are expensive, but they are the safest type of cabs to take in London.
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In this case, yellow cabs suffered 4.5 fewer accidents per 1,000 taxis per month than did blue cabs, while in daylight, the difference was two.
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In order for yellow cabs to compete with Uber and Lyft, the report will suggest improvements to the app that lets riders hail cabs by phone.
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But there's something else to consider here, too: The customers who rely on cabs to get around and won't have many other options if cabs go away.
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The laws were, of course, always imperfectly enforced, and illicit "gypsy cabs" and out-of-jurisdiction pickups by real cabs were a longstanding fact of urban life.
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Back in Cozumel, N. assured us that cabs are clearly marked as cabs and the drivers wear uniforms, so I'm not worried about getting into a car alone.
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Benson compared the trucks' cabs to an airplane cockpit — because of the many neon lights added to the vehicles' exteriors, their cabs are filled with buttons and switch controls.
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He blamed the powers that be in New York, pointing at the politicians who allowed more cabs on the road, flooding in more competition, and then adding green cabs too.
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That rising value, and the returns medallion owners expected to earn, created many distortions in the New York taxi business, including gypsy cabs and the absence of cabs in poorer neighborhoods.
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The cabs are here — and so is the drama.
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But drivers like Mr. Uddin said the cap was unlikely to create a new window of opportunity for green cabs, in part because ride-hail cars outnumber green cabs 30 to 1.
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"We used to have yellow cabs, we now have yellow cabs and black cars and green cars and every color in the rainbow and they cruise downtown Manhattan to pick up fares," Gov.
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Only about 14 percent of the city's 6463,500 yellow cabs are wheelchair-accessible, and the figure is even lower for green cabs, which operate in northern Manhattan and in the four other boroughs.
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Later police would learn that she had taken two cabs.
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And no cabs, no way for her to get home?!
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Starting in 2018, all new black cabs must be electric.
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The app also lets users hail cabs with their phone.
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You're supposed to support unions like the Yellow Cabs. Man.
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She said she rarely finds herself in yellow cabs otherwise.
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"I usually pay for cabs or Uber," Ms. Adamberry said.
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Projected time in cabs to and from airports: 70 minutes.
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Unlike yellow cabs, they cannot wait in the taxi lines.
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But that was not the only problem for green cabs.
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Authorized vehicles carrying supplies and cabs are still allowed, however.
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So why are they still not available in our cabs?
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The numbers were similarly bleak for cabs throughout the city.
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Nathan said the city had a rational basis to treat yellow cabs differently, citing needs to promote safety, convenience and fare uniformity given that only those cabs could pick up passengers off the street.
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It soon turned into some kind of hostel for fellow Australians, people who couldn't get cabs, people who could get cabs, and pretty much anyone who didn't mind living in a bit of filth.
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It's an unprecedented predicament for yellow cab dispatchers: sitting on millions of dollars worth of medallion yellow cabs, lots overflowing with idle cabs, and nowhere to store them but the side of the road.
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Even London's buses, police cars and black cabs are cleaning up.
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His portfolio now includes Snapdeal, One97 Communications, Xiaomi, and Ola Cabs.
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Red double decker buses and black cabs beep horns in support.
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I insisted on taking yellow cabs whenever I had the choice.
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During the 1980s, cabs would refuse to go below 14th Street.
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Forty percent of the city's cabs are currently not in operation.
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After that subway experiment, my physical therapist restricted me to cabs.
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Meters will be modernized, and cabs' garish colors will be optional.
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Bakkali, black cabs have become a byword for populism and racism.
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He embraced energy efficiency, becoming the first to use hybrid cabs.
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They walked for a time, until they came across two cabs.
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He already owns LEVC, the maker of London's iconic black cabs.
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The only stress was being provided by delivery trucks and cabs.
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The rest of the cabs on the island are operated by smaller players — of which SMRT is one — so it's hardly surprising that an app dedicated to booking just one company's cabs didn't get much visibility.
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That taxi mogul, Yasya Shtayner, with her husband, Semyon Shtayner, manage 22 cabs owned by Cohen in Chicago, along with more than 300 other cabs through their company, Chicago Medallion Management, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
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It boasts the largest fleet in Singapore, with more than 15,500 cabs.
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And those cabs weave around accordion-bellied MetroBuses bearing giant CDMX decals.
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Some cabs had thankfully been called at that point, so I left.
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Black cabs have been a staple of London's transportation system for decades.
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And I'm hearing it mentioned among nonpolitical Americans in bars and cabs.
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But now I take cabs so I don't let [fear] consume me.
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And of course there's regular taxi cabs, which have allowed tipping forever.
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The difference between the TX and London's traditional black cabs is stark.
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Uber and Lyft are each bigger than green and yellow cabs combined.
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Subsequently, several Ola and Uber cabs have been impounded for overcharging customers.
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It's got yellow cabs and Broadway and these goofy things called boroughs.
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Taking cabs in the age of Uber feels like supporting local business!
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The roughly 13,000 yellow cabs we have today — gone from our grid.
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The culprit also seemed to have a key to access train cabs.
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It started developing the "Taxi of Tomorrow," a model for future cabs.
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Mytaxi's mission is to encourage riders to use the city's black cabs.
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The cable cars didn't have closed cabs that separated operators from riders.
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Now, some passengers say green cabs tried, but never fulfilled their promise.
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"Those are people in those cabs," he wrote in the comments section.
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Uber's cabs remain operational in London as the company appeals the decision.
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London's iconic black cabs had long been the protection officer's secret weapon.
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In recent movies, there are a lot of cabs and private cars.
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On the other, cabs inch along the curb, waiting for a fare.
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In recent months, in an attempt to innovate and attract younger recruits, Gojyo taxi company has done everything from decorating one of their cabs in anime to deploying one of London's iconic black cabs on the roads of Tokyo.
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The pilot included cabs, buses, auto rickshaws and e-rickshaws, and charging infrastructure.
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Uber started in black cabs before adding UberX and disrupting the taxi market.
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Through Lyft and Uber, the sharing economy has taken a charge at cabs.
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In the last few years, however, fewer and fewer people are taking cabs.
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And the largest "taxi" company in the world, Uber, doesn't own any cabs.
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I never take cabs or Uber though; they add up way too fast!
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For years, he bought surplus cabs and painted them black, for personal use.
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Trump supporters loitering in front of hotels and smoking while waiting for cabs.
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It turns out the Clinton and Trump campaigns don't like hailing cabs either.
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The view from the "frozen" street back to one of the taxi cabs.
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People drifted toward the street to hail cabs or tracked down their Ubers.
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This effectively combines public transit with cabs to create completely new integrated routes.
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So when you come for the cabs, you come for the government too.
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Ken and I rarely take cabs, which, for the most part, is fine.
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Cars honk, trucks honk at me, cabs honk at me, people on bikes.
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He doesn't take cabs often but spends about $50 on them per month.
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It also owns the company that makes London's well-known black taxi cabs.
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A line of cabs waits at the light, and the intersection is empty.
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If you'd prefer not to use Uber, another popular service is Ola Cabs.
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At the time, the mayor said the growing city needed more yellow cabs.
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Some fleets, for example, offer sustainable cabs while others specialize in luxury cars.
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"I take cabs everywhere" — but they're skeptical of the forces that enabled it.
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Last October, about 1,500 cabs brought traffic in downtown Montreal to a halt.
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Even so, he is not ready to give up on yellow cabs yet.
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First, they purchased medallions at bargain rates and established big fleets of cabs.
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He had even started walking home again instead of taking cabs, she said.
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" — Nancy Nicolelis Litsas, 58 Fordham, the Bronx "The only transportation going were cabs.
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Mr. Walsh accepts that black cabs have been slow to adapt to change.
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Those looking to cross the river regularly may find themselves reliant on cabs.
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They'd intercept all the cabs, you know, like a block or two away.
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I've known it in bars, in cabs, in dark corners of darker nights.
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To get there, I'd ride on cabs with open wounds on my back.
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This permit-rationing process generated extraordinary financial returns to the owners of the permits — who, in most cases, were not the actual drivers of the cabs — but also ensured that cabs were harder to find than they should have been.
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Wasn't Uber's rise in popularity in part because people hated riding in yellow cabs?
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You sit in cabs that millions of people have sat, sweated and barfed in.
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Here's one thing that my friends all know about me: I don't take cabs.
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And last year, Uber launched its first fleet of fully-autonomous cabs in Pittsburgh.
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TfL and other groups will gradually build more charging stations dedicated to black cabs.
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Small companies with 10 cabs or fewer make up 90% of the national fleet.
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Local startups like Hello Cabs and Oway Group have filled the void thus far.
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We were stuck in the middle of Wall Street with no limo, no cabs.
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He had to move to Kathmandu to start driving cabs to earn a living.
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" He also said Cohen was in trouble on "loans and frauds and taxi cabs.
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India could soon get its first fleet of radio cabs run by LGBT driver.
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They gave him money for cabs and leisure, high-end dinners and expensive gifts.
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Since 2015, Uber's fleet of vehicles in New York City have outnumbered yellow cabs.
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Elevator cabs clad in backlit slabs of rose and green onyx suggest medieval reliquaries.
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Now they cannot find enough drivers for the cabs because business is so bad.
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The requirements for those cars are somewhat less stringent than those for yellow cabs.
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Under measures announced by the mayor of London, regulator Transport for London (TfL) will allow black cabs to access a further 20 of its bus lanes, provide journey details on its popular online journey planner tool and ensure all cabs accept card payments.
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"The police use of yellow cabs has three main problems—it expands police presence to every cab, increases stop and frisk/racial profiling, and fuels community suspicion of cabs which already have a bad reputation in the community," he said in an email.
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Interior-facing cameras are typically found in police cars or taxi cabs — not personal vehicles.
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She said she often used cabs to carry her through dangerous parts of the journey.
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Certain Napa Valley vintage cabs were found to contain traces of radioactive material from Fukushima.
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Some are successful professionals and business folk; others drive cabs or do low-paid jobs.
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Many drivers took loans to buy cabs, while some leased cars from the companies themselves.
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We take cabs to squeeze in an introductory dive to get our feet wet (haha).
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After breakfast, our group meets in the lobby to take cabs to the marine dock.
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Yellow, then, seems to be a lucky colour for owners of cabs and their customers.
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It does, however, have the same plan to offer self-driving cabs as many others.
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Whereas cabs that can carry — at most — five individuals at a time are not buses.
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Drivers doze in their cabs, feet flung over dashboards; some sling hammocks beneath the chassis.
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Citymapper previously partnered with Gett for carpooled rides in black cabs along a fixed route.
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A vegetable vendor hired cabs to deliver lettuce; onions fetched five times the normal price.
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Hailo operated here together with taxi company SMRT, providing its app for the latter's cabs.
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Residents carried injured casualties into waiting cabs while others fanned victims sprawled on the ground.
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Uber is appealing the ruling, and its cabs can continue to operate in the meantime.
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There are mortal obstacles like yellow cabs, open manholes, and the ultimate monsters: other people.
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But the country's informal economy now includes many cabs and vans used for human smuggling.
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He said, no, I don't get cabs in Washington, D.C. This was 20 years ago.
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With CABs, no payments are required until they mature, often in 40 years or more.
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Timidly looking away, Ramirez focuses on making her way to the yellow cabs stationed outside.
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And when we ride in hired vehicles, like taxi cabs, we often don't use them.
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"And for getting around on a daily basis it's too expensive," she added about cabs.
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Drivers, their cabs and cars lining Lexington Avenue outside, rotated in and out on break.
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The other six drivers drove yellow taxi cabs or for livery or black car services.
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With all the cabs taken up, he started the 22019-kilometer [218-mile] walk home.
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City officials estimate the number of green cabs on city streets to be around 3,500.
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The yellow-cab industry responded to the plan for green cabs by going to court.
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"Yellow cabs have the glass panel; it's too hard to have a conversation," she said.
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Mr. Isac is again leasing yellow cabs since he no longer has his own medallion.
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The new service involves 123,000 yellow cabs, or just over half of the city's fleet.
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It will allow both private hire vehicles and black cabs to be on its platform.
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Once I was on my own, cabs were for emergencies because of my limited budget.
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Such tech has been slow to enter big rigs' cabs, but that may be changing.
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Last year, data showed that more people used Uber than yellow cabs in the city.
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Ms. Purmishar does not drive, and said she could not afford cabs from Ramat Hasharon.
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Yet truckers — high up in their cabs — are literally out of view for most Americans.
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As you can imagine, competition for a seat in one of these cabs was great.
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In Shenzhen today, 99 percent of the more than 21,000 cabs run on electric batteries.
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When cabs pulled up, I tried to talk to the migrants, largely to no avail.
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Dozens of passengers walked back down access roads with their luggage, trying to hail cabs.
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The couple also took subways instead of cabs, packed lunches for work and skipped vacations.
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But then she reconsidered, fearing she might feel disconnected or spend too much on cabs.
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Like it's not just they won't pick you up, the cabs won't pick you up.
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So Ola offers auto rickshaws rides, hourly rates on its taxi service plus inter-city cabs.
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Other companies operating ride hailing services in Kenya are Fone Taxi, Pewin Cabs and Little Cab.
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Like cabs, they can more easily absorb fees as part of the cost of doing business.
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Forget yellow cabs and neon lights — this is New York like you've never seen it before.
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He was an entrepreneur, and he'd say, 'Baby, while you're sleeping, the cabs are making money.
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Some drivers hung banners from their cabs demanding "military intervention" to deal with crime and corruption.
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For years he&aposs managed hundreds of cabs, including more than two dozen owned by Cohen.
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London's long-suffering Black Cabs have yet another competitor to deal with, alongside Gett, and Uber.
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Today, Gett is especially popular in places like London where people use it for hailing cabs.
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Bride, groom, and wedding party got super drunk so we called them cabs around 1 a.m.
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Uber is making it easier for more people in India to book cabs on its network.
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Uber has faced protests from drivers of London's traditional black cabs and criticism over working conditions.
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Cabs would also have to be sent from company premises and return between rides, he added.
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People can message their friends, make payments, contact businesses, and even order cabs on the app.
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On the quieter streets, normal cabs are harder to come by, and so Uber makes sense.
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Cabs may still be plentiful, and surge pricing is aggravating, but Uber and Lyft are dependable.
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New York City is known for many things — Broadway shows, yellow cabs, Wall Street power brokers.
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You never know the things that may be going on inside cabs rolling through the Bronx.
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Geely opened a new factory in central England in March to produce the electric black cabs.
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He will have to close, he believes, when the cabs no longer have a pit stop.
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"The people that champion the crusade against Uber do not have a problem hailing yellow cabs."
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RIFF I like to do videos in cabs or in Ubers, particularly on the F.D.R. Drive.
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In New York, licensed cabs must display a medallion, a metal badge sold by the city.
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Uber's arrival in London has, however, set off a clash with the city's famous black cabs.
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The commission oversaw the drivers and fleets that owned the medallions for the city's 12,000 cabs.
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For the first time, in July, more people in the city chose Uber over yellow cabs.
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"New data from TNCs show that they are convenient cabs, not the transportation revolution they promised."
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The building, which has a lobby under renovation, has newly refurbished corridors, restrooms and elevator cabs.
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The idea of using flying cars — or cabs — has been around for at least a century.
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Some panel members voiced concern about surge pricing, saying it could reduce demand for yellow cabs.
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He was taking everything in—the buildings, the storefronts, the limos and yellow cabs, the people.
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City-by-city regulations required procedures like base stations for cabs, safety measures and other stipulations.
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As today's London taxis fight Uber, watermen fought horse-drawn cabs in a long, losing battle.
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After making nonstop calls and tracking down countless cabs, Nevils managed to recover De Niro's wallet.
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I travel a lot, so by definition I write in many places: cabs, cafes, nearly everywhere.
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Ride-hailing firms believe that TfL prefers black cabs, whose owners are overwhelmingly white and British.
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Fans of Uber also argue that black cabs have been slow to adapt to new technology.
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Since the L is not running, players have to rely on buses, ferries, bikes and cabs.
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The city does already have ride-hailing startups of its own, like Hello Cabs and Oway Group.
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Drivers of cabs are also not provided the same resources as those who work for rideshare apps.
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Undercover NYPD taxi cabs don't normally have the plastic divider separating the backseats from the front seat.
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TfL's ruling was chiefly meant to assuage the grievances of drivers of black cabs, a powerful lobby.
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The intention is to get more cabs on the road before surge pricing would normally kick in.
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However, all licensed London black cabs are already wheelchair accessible and come fully equipped with accessibility features.
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In many large cities across Africa, motorcycle taxis are as common as yellow cabs in New York.
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Eventually, Revmax's platform may be able to help direct cabs to the best places to maximize revenue.
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So far, DeepText is mostly good for hailing cabs It hasn't gotten quite that far, of course.
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There have been occasional weird forays into operating physical buses and cabs, but more on that later.
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This launched last October and allows users to guarantee set prices on cabs for a monthly fee.
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Some say that both the companies are favoring the drivers who have leased cabs using their programs.
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Many apps muscle in on territory that once belonged to conventional business: cabs, for example, or hotels.
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But mandatory budget cuts under sequestration prompted the Army to take one of the 101st's CABs away.
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Back outside, a groundskeeper with a pickup truck offered to lead the two cabs to Mondrian's grave.
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In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Cohen and Garber were overseeing 260 cabs, and making millions.
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Downing, who lived in Harlem, said the locals are aware that the NYPD sometimes use undercover cabs.
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"We are the Uber of security, but instead of offering cabs, we offer ethical hackers," says Mickos.
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That could be a factor in why most New Yorkers don't buckle up in cabs, he said.
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One of Signature's specialties was financing the purchase of taxi medallions, which authorize holders to operate cabs.
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Unable to deliver their goods, a few of the drivers napped in the cabs of their trucks.
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Back in the day when Ken Livingstone was mayor there weren't enough cabs to get everybody home.
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As Recode reported, nuTonomy plans to deploy thousands of its self-driving cabs in Singapore by then.
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I saw a young couple staring at passing cabs, looking at each other and shrugging their shoulders.
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The city Taxi and Limousine Commission, which regulates yellow cabs, declined to comment on the Council's plan.
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So he only took cabs and buses for about two years while covering Uber and the industry.
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And, why the improbably complex business of getting cabs in Beirut is preferred to disrupters like Uber.
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And, while the number of ride-hail vehicles has soared, the number of green cabs has shrunk.
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I put in SROS, but what are really being hailed on Broadway in this puzzle are CABS.
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We started booking cabs with 220 hours notice, then four hours, and then we started on-demand.
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And so I'm out there getting completely drenched, I mean, driving rain, and there are no cabs.
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Her group represents yellow cabs as well as ride-hailing drivers, totaling around 22,2023 members, she said.
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Her group represents yellow cabs as well as ride-hailing drivers, totaling around 22,85033 members, she said.
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It can't just be Uber and cabs, we need to make sure women are getting home safely.
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One way I'm cutting back is by trading in cabs and public transportation for my own two feet.
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We don't even have the regulation in place to deal with the issue of cabs versus ride-share.
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Young-looking New Yorkers stuck their heads out of cabs and screamed "Trump" as loud as they could.
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The gaudy rigs sport acres of chrome, neon, and velvet, and drivers ride in cabs illuminated by chandeliers.
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In the last 30 days, I spent $516 on Uber, $135 on Lyft, and $40 on yellow cabs.
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That was up nearly 25 percent from four years earlier, despite a decline in trips in yellow cabs.
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It seems Uber learned a lot from its battles for app-hailed cabs in cities around the globe.
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Cabs, direct flights, food delivery, your living situation — a paycheck is what lets you order from that menu.
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Thanks to word-of-mouth publicity, many drivers come to Taxi Fabric to give their cabs a makeover.
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Uber is already increasing its market share of rides as compared to yellow cabs in Queens and Brooklyn.
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Uber wasn't just taking passengers out of yellow cabs, it was growing the overall market for paid transportation.
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They used Uber, which expanded its coverage area, and flagged down cabs in the middle of the street.
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I have a little bit of cash for tipping, of course, and also to pay cabs or whatever.
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No, in the land of subway schleps, honking cabs, and hurried commutes, it's practically a sacred a.m. ritual.
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Cameron says the problem is that tipping for cabs, for example, happens right when you pay the driver.
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According to some estimates, the price of cabs sans driver could come down as much as three-quarters.
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"Instead we should all use unlicensed cabs like early-1900s LA"There was an Uber way before Uber.
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GM and Lyft plan to begin putting self-driving cabs to the test sometime within the next year.
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Martinez remembers them arriving in cabs, old jalopies and fancy SUVs — some even with McCain/Palin bumper stickers.
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Cohen also owned and operated a handful of taxi medallions, managing a fleet of cabs in New York.
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The Prez's piece is a detailed doodle of the NYC skyline ... including sketched-in windows and yellow cabs.
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In fact, Uber's latest app interface has encouraged me to cheat on it with smelly, old taxi cabs.
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The program has been since expanded to 1,225 cabs, still a small fraction of the fleet of 13,587.
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Or by finding ways to make London's more rigorously regulated black cabs more affordable for people to use.
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Together, the two men managed 22016 cabs in the late 1990s and early 2000s, some for other owners.
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Empty cabs rolled down darkened streets, past lonely food carts plopped on sidewalks where few pedestrians scurried by.
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There have never been enough cabs, certainly not to handle the periods of peak demand and bad weather.
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But today, yellow cabs are dwarfed by cars working for ride-hail apps, which face far fewer regulations.
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New Yorkers in cars and cabs are quick to adapt to change, and drivers easily found alternate routes.
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There are also a number of minicab firms as well as the iconic black cabs, particularly in London.
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Together, the two men managed 20153 cabs in the late 1990s and early 2000s, some for other owners.
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So here's your cabernet takeaway: Look for Chilean cabs in the $10 range — cheap, but not bottom barrel.
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A Baghlan subsidiary received a contract from the ministry to import a thousand London-style cabs to Baku.
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The company is at odds with regulators and drivers of traditional cabs in its most lucrative European market.
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Several commuters complained of long waits and surge fares due to a dearth in cabs on the road.
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Pros: More frequent service; a way for the green cabs to offset being hit by Uber and Lyft.
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According to several cab drivers, the company recently approached them for its upcoming cab service dubbed Jio Cabs.
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The LTDA represents London's pricey black cabs that serve mainly the well-to-do in the capital's centre.
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Uber and Ola Cabs, the two ride-share apps I used in India, worked well enough, generally speaking.
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There were an average of 10,500 yellow cabs and vehicles working for ride-hailing apps from 4 p.m.
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The company has historically leveraged public dissatisfaction with the safety and efficiency of cabs to attract new riders.
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India's Uber rival, Ola, is making it affordable for even more people in the country to use its cabs.
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New York City has plenty of cabs and car services to get the job done when it needs doing.
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Altogether six cabs, from Uber and its largest Indian rival, Ola, canceled on her back to back that day.
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Take K.-sponsored cabs back to the hotel, shower, and meet again in the lobby for a quick bite.
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Along with red double decker buses and the Tube, black cabs are an iconic part of London's transport infrastructure.
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In terms of luxury it's much more sustainable, but we will see robo cabs driving around, the Google car.
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Cars with legs, flying taxis, sensors that watch your face while you drive, robot deaths, an Uber for ... cabs.
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The cabs are here — except in the case of Pauly "DJ Pauly D" DelVecchio, it's a Lamborghini Aventador Roadster.
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It's safe to say this subway rider might consider cabs for some time after his most recent underground encounter.
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This week: a financial coordinator making $43,000/year who spends it on cabs to and from her boyfriend's place.
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"Our iconic black cabs are famous across the world," Greg Clark, business and energy secretary, said in a statement.
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It's an absolute trip, watching these machines roll around and push and dig with no humans in their cabs.
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I imagine you'd have to consider yellow cabs, and the controversies with these companies we've seen in cities worldwide.
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The advantages of combining trains with cabs is of course a better connected city, cheaper travel, potentially faster travel.
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"You never know the things that may be going on inside cabs rolling through the Bronx," our columnist wrote.
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But there are definitely not enough cabs or public transit options to handle all of the demand without them.
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There's no Lyft competing with Uber in London—only significantly smaller ride-hailing operators and London's traditional black cabs.
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"I'm from Phoenix and so there's more taxi cabs than I have ever seen in my life," he said.
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The lobby is breathtakingly beautiful, and there's this constant parade of taxi cabs coming and going at the Nacional.
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In 2006, Cohen put management of the cabs into Gerber's hands, and was bringing in around $1 million annually.
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Every vendor, including supermarkets, restaurants, taxi cabs, and even small fruit stands on the street, accepted payment through WeChat.
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Uber users in Kenya said regular taxi cabs had raised their fares in response to the strike at Uber.
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"Some yellow cabs won't even go uptown or to parts of Brooklyn," Mr. Sharpton later said in an interview.
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The majority of Access-A-Ride trips would be handled by yellow cabs, green taxis or private car services.
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Eventually, the vehicle was expected to make up 80 percent of New York City's fleet of over 13,000 cabs.
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DTC cleaning staff chemically disinfect and sanitize Autorickshaws and taxi cabs at the Rajghat Cluster Bus Depot, March 19.
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Its arrival here, however, created a clash almost immediately with the black cabs, which trace their roots to 1634.
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Mr. Igolnikov, who was convicted in 2015 in a scheme to use wrecked vehicles as cabs, declined to comment.
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It rolled up to the Venetian hotel Tuesday morning behind an endless vertebrae of Las Vegas cabs and limos.
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Experts say many of these disputes will be settled far from stages, truckers' cabs, or therapists' couches: in court.
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Cohen himself reportedly owns around 28503 medallions for taxis in New York and owns about 22019 cabs in Chicago.
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Mr. Friedman oversees an extensive operation of more than 800 cabs in about 120 separate companies under his name.
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By 2020, half of all yellow cabs must be wheelchair-accessible while the new services have no such mandate.
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Cohen himself reportedly owns around 30 medallions for taxis in New York and owns about 22 cabs in Chicago.
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The Metropolitan Taxicab Board of Trade, which represents the owners of 5,500 yellow cabs, opened the driver resource center.
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He also said that if women got assaulted in cabs after they canceled Ubers, I should be held responsible.
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Not only are flights and lodging pricey, but activity fees, cabs, and on-the-go meals can add up quickly.
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Once in town, try to use only radio-dispatched cabs, or arrange rides through your hotel's doorman or front desk.
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Is your pricey habit of taking cabs every day annoying to your partner, who's trying to save for the future?
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People talked about using in the public eye and shooting up in a hurry between two cabs in the streets.
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And just like that, Tiffany & Co. became even cooler — though the bodega takeovers and Tiffany Blue cabs didn't hurt either.
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Both the cab-ride hailing services have promised the government to offer cabs at a fixed monthly rate, PTI reports.
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The taxi cabs in two popular U.S. destinations have responded to the millions of Chinese tourists coming in every year.
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High in their fancy cabs, they think nothing of the damage they are doing below, with only open road ahead.
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There were a couple of beige-uniformed doormen hailing cabs and the opening doors of spotless Range Rovers for guests.
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I reveled in those surprising moments of quiet, like watching the yellow cabs barreling up Lexington Avenue at 1 a.m.
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When the app first entered the market in San Francisco in 2009, its fares were set higher than local cabs.
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Shenzhen's traffic authority claims that electric cabs are 70 percent more energy-efficient compared to those powered by fossil fuel.
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Public transportation fundamentally exists to serve the subsection of the population who cannot afford to own cars or take cabs.
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Their marriage prospects are grim; venereal diseases and sore backs from sleeping in cramped cabs are but two occupational hazards.
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While it's important to consider the racial implications of the black cabs versus Uber row, there are other crucial factors.
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Other such firms include Lyft in the United States, China's Didi Chuxing, India's Ola Cabs, and GrabTaxi in southeast Asia.
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But opponents said Uber and Lyft provide needed service to neighborhoods outside Manhattan that are poorly served by yellow cabs.
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If Uber's business model had been to pay for customers rides in existing cabs, the comparison might be more apt.
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Ride-hail apps officially became more popular than New York City's iconic yellow cabs as of the beginning of 2017.
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Looks like Brooklyn's on track to be a true New Yorker though, at least when it comes to hailing cabs.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan — Commuters in Taipei will probably have to go back to regular cabs for the next couple of weeks.
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Verifone licenses technology to taxi vendors, including individual taxi owners and fleet owners to bring better technology into their cabs.
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Safaricom has bigger plans for the service than "just cabs" and dropped the word to be less restrictive, she explained.
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Cohen practiced law there and invested in the once-lucrative medallions that grant New York cabs the right to operate.
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After arriving in border towns such as Plattsburgh, many use cabs to cover the final miles to the Canadian crossing.
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The play, which Mr. Wilson wrote in 1979, is about a group of men who drive unlicensed cabs in Pittsburgh.
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Besides, the duffel always fits in overhead spaces, in taxi cabs and is easier to handle on a busy subway.
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A taxi union announced that, in solidarity with the protesters, its cabs would not pick up passengers at the airport.
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However, "the RBZ hasn't given us any U.S. dollars in cash yet," a teller at a CABS bank branch said.
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While traditional taxi services in Hungary also have apps for ordering cabs, Uber does not yet have a dispatch permit.
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Meanwhile, cabs are scarce, Ubers are surging, and there are dudes dressed like the Jared Leto Joker on the subway.
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And, yes, on 14th Street there will be no private automobiles or cabs allowed (save for intersections at certain avenues).
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In an age when everything is re-packaged for the internet, from taxi-cabs to healthcare, why not the occult?
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"We're making less than taxi cabs," he added, saying that he would instead drive for competing services Lyft and Gett.
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They pay a fortune for their cabs and are required to take the Knowledge test, which consumes years of effort.
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But the transactions usually increased medallion values, even though the cabs hardly ever moved from their spots in the fleet.
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Many quickly pulled the curtains across their windshields and withdrew to their sleeper cabs for the night with engines running.
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"Don't hail cabs off the street," advised Christopher Hagon, the managing partner of GlobalSecur, a Florida-based travel security firm.
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The family was the second spotted arriving that day on Roxham Road, with at least two other cabs coming later.
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They borrowed the money to buy taxi medallions, the city permit that allowed them to own and operate their cabs.
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New York's ubiquitous yellow cabs require pricey, city-approved medallions, or licenses, in order to legally operate in the city.
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Bevirt says thousands of these sky cabs will one day shuttle people around cities, soaring above the conventional traffic below.
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A generation that already orders cabs and music on screens needs no introduction to the joys of a cashless life.
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The stars posed for photos and enjoyed an epic multi-tiered cake decorated with cabs, leopard print and — what else?
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One of my favorite facts that I learned was why New York taxi cabs have their signature bright yellow color.
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They complain that the traditional cabs are uncomfortable, expensive and belch diesel fumes into a city with air quality problems.
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USM also has stakes in Alibaba, JD.com, Xiaomi, Uber, Spotify, Airbnb, Zalando, Flipkart, Ola Cabs, Didi Chuxing, ZocDoc and Klarna.
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Do the windows of this restaurant still look out on a luminous city street filled with cute boys and yellow cabs?
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These cabs were particularly interesting: similar to UberPool, but with drivers paid a fixed salary instead of a per-ride fee.
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And besides social media functions, WeChat is often used to pay bills, split the tab among friends, and even hail cabs.
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Then you'd get cabs bouncing from one gig to another, and then all pile into the Marathon Bar in Camden afterwards.
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Bharathi then went on to get a driving licence and a job at an all-woman cab service Angel City Cabs.
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When you open the new tab, it will display information about how close cabs are as well as an estimated fare.
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The move comes after the Indian government proposed the idea so that it could cut short its monthly expenditure on cabs.
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Ola and Uber's rise in India has been devastating for cab drivers, who pay large amounts for licences to drive cabs.
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The city's traditional cabs have been hit by competition from a number of firms such as ride-hailing app Uber UBER.
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Grab: Uber: Trans-cab is the smaller cab operator in Singapore with 7,000 cabs on the island, compared with ComfortDelGro's 17,000.
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For Uber, the tie-up could help it acquire new customers as it competes with homegrown ride-hailing competitor Ola Cabs.
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Most passengers have to spring for overpriced cabs or catch a white-knuckled ride on the back of a motorcycle taxi.
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The entire fleet of electric cabs is estimated to cut carbon emissions by 856 thousand metric tons a year for Shenzhen.
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When I accompanied DABS1 on a bombing mission one night, we kept an eye out for cabs as well as police.
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But it's a vital one, given that most of these companies plan to operate their aircraft as fleets of flying cabs.
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Taxi unions want lawmakers to limit the number of rideshare drivers and ensure their fares do not undercut those of cabs.
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No word if there is a New York edition, complete with harsh honking horns and angry pedestrians screaming at taxi cabs.
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Yellow cabs are really "emblazoned love chariots," he said, just before one honked as he led the group across 42nd Street.
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"We've interdicted drugs on buses and planes and ridesharing [sic] and taxi cabs and vehicles and on bicycles," he told me.
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Only 21990 percent of us use seatbelts in yellow cabs, according to a 73 survey from the Taxi and Limousine Commission.
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It could mean not sharing in cabs, travel, lunches, projects or get-togethers over coffee, and not meeting behind closed doors.
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Traffic stands still, puddles get deceptively deep and even the most intrepid of us cowers in the wakes of passing cabs.
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As the supply of subways and buses vanished around Times Square during the Monday morning rush, the demand for cabs increased.
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It led the safety board to recommend inward-facing cameras in train cabs, and Amtrak committed in 2015 to installing them.
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This means it will work for human-driven fleets like traditional taxi cabs as well as autonomous shuttles and, someday, robotaxis.
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Why go back to waiting on yellow cabs or fighting your way onto a crowded bus if you don't have to?
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In Ontario, where most of the country's immigrants settle, there are still far too many professionals driving cabs and delivering food.
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We're talking a dizzying montage of airplanes, cabs, bottled water, economic support of environmentally irresponsible nations, and God knows what else.
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Cabs are also struggling to stay relevant to digitally savvy New Yorkers and out-of-towners, The Times's Winne Hu reports.
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Uber, for instance, can use surge pricing to charge higher fares during peak times while cabs are locked into fixed rates.
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"Black cabs have been moving people in and around London for centuries," Andy Batty, Free Now's chief operating officer, told CNBC.
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Most were owned by others who charged him a fee for the right to operate their cabs and keep the profits.
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Organizations representing drivers of London's traditional cabs see Uber as undercutting their business and have lobbied against the company's license renewal.
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Ola too has announced its expansion into London, a market also occupied by Estonia's Bolt and the city's ubiquitous black cabs.
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Olabinjo and Abimbola Osundairo were arrested last month after police tracked the cabs and rideshare cars they used before the attack.
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The company said in a blog post that the autonomous vehicles will still have drivers in their cabs to monitor them.
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California to Uber: Stop Your Self-Driving Cabs Right Now or ElseJust hours after Uber launched a fleet of semi-autonomous cars in San Francisco, state regulators…Read more ReadWednesday evening, the DMV revoked the registrations of Uber's 16 self-driving cabs, saying in a statement they were "improperly issued" to test vehicles not marked as such.
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In contrast, remote-controlled autonomous driving means that cars, truck cabs, delivery vans, and even delivery robots can operate on their own.
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Taxi operators in Chicago with more than 20 cabs must maintain at least 5 percent as accessible vehicles, according to city ordinance.
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I decide to stick around to make sure everyone leaves okay and because my office only pays for cabs after 11 p.m.
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When we first started going out, my social spending increased by a lot, between drinks, snacks to share, and late-night cabs.
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That leaves people with the option of cabs or public transit, and it's fair to say those aren't beloved entities either. 2.
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Gett Together cabs will be able to use London's dedicated busing lanes, which Waiser points out will help with transit times considerably.
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A taxi driver belonging to China's main ethnic group, the Han, says that there are now hardly any ethnic Koreans driving cabs.
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The recall covers certain 2007 through 2013 Ram 2500 and 3500 pickup trucks, as well as Ram 4500 and 5500 chassis cabs.
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I hate taking cabs when I'm not too drunk for the subway, but I decide I can make an exception this time.
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While Uber and traditional yellow cabs still dominate the Manhattan market, "New York happens to be our fastest growing territory," Waiser claims.
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Oh my gosh...the line for cabs is brutal at JFK, and of course there's no cell service to call an Uber.
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The deal is similar to Lyft's partnership with nuTonomy to bring self-driving cabs to Boston, which was announced earlier this year.
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Similarly, the Dubai Taxi Company has been operating a fleet of Tesla cabs since earlier this year with plans to add more.
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"The big underlying dynamic is that the city government has decided to cave or protect the black cabs in London," he said.
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Uber lost $1 billion a year connecting cabs and passengers in the People's Republic, before it conceded defeat to rival Didi Chuxing.
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Ola sends them details of cabs available at nearby places, and users can select the driver and book a cab using SMSs.
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More than 9,000 electric taxis, or about half the current fleet of black cabs, are expected on the capital's roads by 2021.
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They are also asking that Ola and Uber cut smaller commissions from drivers and curb the number of cabs on the app.
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In a bid to promote sustainable and affordable forms of transport, India's Ola Cabs will be introducing electric rickshaws on its app.
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The app works similarly to Uber, where users can look for and call cabs to pick them up at any given location.
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Around 2,000 yellow cabs are decommissioned every year, according to Allan J. Fromberg, a spokesman for the city's Taxi and Limousine Commission.
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The figures also showed that 122 allegations of rape and sexual assault were reported against other London taxi drivers, including black cabs.
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"I'd seen two people get out of cabs already and just wheel their suitcases" the rest of the way, Ms. Buitekant said.
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Christina Applegate My mom would let me take cabs out till 2 in the morning when I was 15, 16 years old.
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Yet the bustle of Paris continues, just as the yellow cabs of New York weave endlessly, day and night, around Ground Zero.
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The horn dogs who are out just to get laid will have paired up and jumped into cabs by this time too.
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Those ride-transport services flooded the New York city streets with supply, making the demand for cabs -- and medallions -- far less urgent.
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Most of these haven't been around long enough to have prompted any departures, though there are exceptions, including Uber's impact on cabs.
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I loved entertaining and thought that being on billboards and cabs all over the city was going to be enough for me.
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And unlike many of its competitors, it builds both the truck cabs and components like engines and transmissions in the United States.
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Yellow and green cabs, which are metered and have set fare rules will be out in force at the airport taxi stands.
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The fee waiver would aid all owners of the city's 13,500 taxi medallions, including large fleets, which operate about half of cabs.
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They say the congestion this "congestion pricing" surcharge is addressing is not their fault since their numbers are capped (at 9,587 cabs).
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And like the subject of the Iggy Pop song bearing that title, he rides and he rides — buses, cabs, ferries, trains, planes.
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It licensed all participants and decided what cabs could charge, where they could go and which type of vehicle they could use.
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The expansion comes at a time when ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft have overtaken yellow cabs in numbers and popularity.
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The city agreed to adopt regulations to make 50 percent of the city's more than 13,000 yellow cabs wheelchair-friendly by 2020.
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Walking would have taken an hour each way, cabs and buses were scarce, and there was no place to rent a car.
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Figures from the city's Taxi and Limousine Commission underscore how much business for green cabs has declined since ride-share cars arrived.
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It was a full flight but surprisingly there are no other cabs in the area, so calling ahead was a smart move.
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In the fall of 20133, Chicago held an auction to sell taxi medallions, the permits that let people own and operate cabs.
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She asked him to take cabs home at night, and Mr. Rasheed was always careful to walk in view of CCTV cameras.
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Passengers were left to find local taxis, and they often grumbled that the cabs were slow to arrive and charged high fares.
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At the end of a long day, he would join the line of people at the curb, all trying to hail cabs.
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Trump's mention of taxi cabs refers to Cohen's reported financial troubles related to the declining value of taxicab medallions in New York.
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At the same time, less demand for New York's iconic yellow cabs has decimated that one-time route to middle-class income.
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These days, Mr. Legarreta's most imposing obstacle is not the northern park hills or swerving cabs, but the skepticism facing his trade.
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Opened in 2015, it is the first such center in the history of yellow cabs in New York City, industry leaders say.
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But sharing cabs can also help to cut down on the costs involved with those rides – something that could appeal to budget travelers.
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Like any big city, taxis are also an easy way to get around, and in Bangkok colourful cabs add personality to the streets.
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While several Delhi residents welcomed the move as a step towards greater transparency, others complained that it led to a shortage of cabs.
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Grab offers four services in Indonesia: ride-sharing, taxi cabs, motorbike taxis and delivery services — and traditional operators are certainly feeling the heat.
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Before Uber came along, many drivers were independent entrepreneurs who took out loans for their cars and expensive licenses to operate taxi cabs.
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The rise of Uber and the new entrants has put pressure on London's iconic black cabs, as they often charge much cheaper fares.
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And there was a 55-year-old who got to his job in the airline industry using public transit, cabs and his car.
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For years, Freidman, a Russian immigrant, has managed Cohen's taxi medallions, which give owners the right to operate New York City yellow cabs.
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But at least its name should live on, just as Taylor's hated Hackney "Hell-carts" do in London's black cabs, 400 years later.
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And because this is a story about London black cabs, we'd be completely remiss if we didn't bring up Uber, their mortal enemy.
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Uber-style taxi-hailing services via mobile apps emerged in China in 2012, when cabs in most Chinese cities were in short supply.
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"The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) hasn't given us any U.S. dollars in cash yet," a teller at a CABS bank branch said.
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Two weeks ago, the Karnataka state government banned surge pricing and established a price ceiling for air conditioned and non-air conditioned cabs.
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Second, the majority of Chinese users are plugged into its ecommerce system, where they already buy tickets and book cabs cashlessly through WeChat.
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Uber rival Ola, the dominant taxi-hailing app in India, launched a service aimed at providing cabs for the business sector on Monday.
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She tries to take the subway as much as possible to get around and only splurges on cabs a few times a month.
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Many cities have laws requiring a certain number of their yellow cabs to be wheelchair accessible, but no such law exists for Uber.
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Arora was considered a steadying hand on Son's more reckless instincts, leading more modest investments in Indian startups like Snapdeal and Ola Cabs.
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As soon as the green light for pedestrians flicker on, they run to the middle of street, engulfing cars, yellow cabs, and buses.
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She prefers dodging yellow cabs and bicyclists to navigating sidewalks teeming with commuters, tourists and cart-pushing vendors, all jostling for elbow room.
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Service, including ordering cabs and accommodating our desire to be on an upper floor, was prompt and courteous, and Wi-Fi was free.
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Algorithms will be doing copywriting, self-driving technology will be handling cabs and trucks, and robot servers and bartenders are coming soon enough.
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When we were first going out, she impressed and horrified me by regularly sending cabs to pick up cigarettes from the gas station.
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We piled into cabs to head to a grimy bar in the city, and it was the same scene there: everyone was gurning.
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"Taxi drivers have always faced problems of franchise charges and competition from illegal cabs," Geoffrey Crothall, spokesperson for China Labor Bulletin, told Motherboard.
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In 2016, on any given day at McGuinness you could easily count as many phantom yellow cabs strewn in and around its lot.
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Also, most New York cabs are now Toyota Camrys, which the city estimates to have an environmental rating of 25 miles per gallon.
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Tencent's WeChat has transformed social life in China: People use it to chat, pay bills, transfer money, book cabs and hook up romantically.
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Hit the brakes: A coalition of taxi drivers and owners filed suit to overturn the surcharge, saying that yellow cabs should be exempted.
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Many can no longer afford to drive, while others can barely afford routine maintenance and their cabs are often in need of repair.
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Plaxall was founded in 21950 by an engineer named Louis Pfohl after he relocated from the Midwest in order to design elevator cabs.
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According to estimates, more than 150,000 Uber and Ola cabs roam around the National Capital Region (which includes adjacent cities Gurgaon and Noida).
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He was in a line of green cabs waiting for passengers to pick up in the shadow of the Astoria Boulevard subway station.
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Many fear that the rivalry will put them out of business: Uber fares are about 30 percent lower than those of black cabs.
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Bookshelf If you're looking for objects that define New York, few epitomize the city — and evoke more vexation — than pigeons and taxi cabs.
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The city could become one of the first in the United States to allow yellow cabs to raise prices when demand is high.
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As for taxis, the city can make accommodations for passenger drop-offs, but prevent cabs from cruising along empty for blocks on end.
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There&aposs no word yet on the interior volume of either of these vehicles; however, both will be crew cabs, with four doors.
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"Sometimes the bicycle lane is crowded with double-parks and cabs cannot see me," he said, "and I'm back in the danger zone."
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Bodyguards nowhere to be seen, Assad takes off from the center of Damascus driving through roundabouts, past taxi cabs and passersby, seemingly unnoticed.
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Right now, Los Angeles limits the number of cabs to 2,364 vehicles — a pittance compared to the city's 100,000-plus Ubers and Lyfts.
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They tracked down two brothers Smollett allegedly paid to carry out the incident through cabs and rideshares they took after the reported attack.
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Ask any Parisian about their past experiences with cabs and you almost always get stories about dishonest detours, surly drivers and smelly cars.
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The price of a taxi medallion has plummeted, many drivers have abandoned cabs for ride-hailing services and taxis sit idle in garages.
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Otherwise, cabs in Austin are spotty—they take a long time, they're expensive, and they can be impossible to find downtown after midnight.
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Photo: Anadolu AgencyHundreds of taxi cabs—many of them brandishing anti-Uber signs—clogged a major roadway in Spain during rush hour Monday morning.
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BREAKFAST BROWSE Twitter troubles JPMorgan Chase told its customers they'd have more money in the bank if they stopped splurging on coffee or cabs.
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Uber announced that it would soon be debuting its self-driving cabs in Pittsburgh last month, and the cars are hitting the road today.
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She also notes that black cabs are regulated on the price they can charge — so can't impose surge pricing at will as Uber does.
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As Grab jostles to edge Uber out in Singapore, the Asian company is arming itself with one thing Uber hasn't really got — traditional cabs.
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By next month, tens of thousands of cabs in New York City and Las Vegas will accept Alipay, China's nearly ubiquitous mobile payment mode.
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Since my boyfriend drove instead of taking cabs there and back, I order him an ice cream sundae from a diner as a treat.
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I remember I was in a cab in Berlin and I didn't realize that the cabs there don't take cards; they only take money.
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It may be famous for its red double decker buses and black cabs, but London is pushing hard to become a city of cycling.
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THE taxi drivers of London are famous for their black cabs, pricey fares and outspoken political commentary provided to passengers at no extra charge.
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"You know, some nights I make a lot more than all the other cabs in town and some nights I make nothing," he says.
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In her British-themed bedroom, where she drags me to show off posters of Big Ben and black cabs, she produces three distinct accents.
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And it's not the people who can afford to take black cabs, which can cost more than double an Uber fare, who are concerned.
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Cabs formed blockades at the entrance to motorways as other protesters said they would drive slowly through the capital all day, creating massive jams.
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A colleague of mine finds that he can't consistently use Apple Pay in New York City cabs, which are supposed to accept Apple Pay.
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Dangerously long shifts in the taxi and for-hire vehicle industry are becoming more commonplace as competition heats up between yellow cabs and Uber.
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Resende defended loosening regulations on cab-hailing apps, potentially allowing them to charge variable tariffs and not be subject to rules governing street cabs.
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Eventually Uber will jack its prices up to account for this spend, but by then the cabs will be long gone from our streets.
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Show me a grey sky, a rainy cab rideNo one actually likes the rain, it's just there, and we all use Ubers, not cabs.
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But if you're hitting Starbucks, taking cabs and ordering takeout on a regular basis, it can start to make a dent in your budget.
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"This does not directly deal with the historic and current problem of yellow cabs' bias of servicing us in our community," Mr. Sharpton said.
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Sounds to me like someone is trying to make up stories in order to get himself out of an unrelated jam (Taxi cabs maybe?).
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In 21976, Raffaele Pepe was in charge of servicing New York City's last 260 remaining Checker cabs at his auto shop in Astoria, Queens.
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For green cabs, revenue has declined proportionally as trips have dwindled, to $296,22011 a day citywide in May 1103, from $2110,22011 in May 22013.
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More than two years ago, Lopez began documenting the vibrant ceilings of Mumbai's black-and-yellow cabs, known as kaali-peeli taxis, on Instagram.
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One thing to look for on Thursday is whether Tesla will make versions of the truck with bigger cabs or wildly different trim levels.
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Using data from three million taxi rides, M.I.T. researchers found that ride-sharing cabs could reduce traffic and pollution and result in fewer trips.
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Metropolitan Diary Dear Diary: When I was growing up, cabs meant grandparents and going for treats in Checkers with jump seats and soft upholstery.
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By 1993, he accumulated nine taxi medallions — the coveted metal placards that permit people to own or operate cabs — then worth roughly $1.5 million.
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" New York City's taxi industry grew out of the horse-drawn hansom cabs of the 2227s, according to Graham Hodges, the author of "Taxi!
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Blue Bird's shares have since recovered after announcing a partnership with Go-Jek that allows customers to order cabs through the Go-Jek app.
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" Shortly thereafter you receive an automated text message: "all cabs booked through Baidu maps have been disinfected, and you have an unused coupon waiting!
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Many middle-class Londoners — the kind who buy organic food and voted to stay in the European Union — feel conflicted about the cabs vs.
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In a gesture of solidarity, the New York Taxi Workers Alliance called for an hour-long work stoppage of cabs headed to the airport.
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The Carnegie Mellon team has collected images of boat wakes in rivers; one of my first searches was for clusters of yellow taxi cabs.
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Its fleet in the city has also reduced considerably after India's Supreme Court banned diesel and petrol cabs in the city to curb air pollution.
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Robot Taxi plans to take on Japan's famously immaculate cabs in urban centres and remote, rural towns where public transport for elderly residents is limited.
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So in airports, the back of cabs, and on city streets we're plugging into lithium-ion slabs in our pockets and bags to stay connected.
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Rakishev, a Kazakh entrepreneur, and two other investors CABS Platform and Slevin, have been pushing for Pavel Maslovskiy to return as CEO of the company.
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"This is the first time it'll be possible to use all the black cabs, effectively making cars competitive to buses," Waiser explained in an interview.
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With Uber and Lyft, the losers were taxi drivers, chained to the dwindling revenue their cabs created while stuck paying off insanely expensive taxi medallions.
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Drivers of London's black cabs, who have snarled up the city's streets in protest at the app over the last few years, welcomed Friday's decision.
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Among them was a 38-year-old whose short commute to her title insurance job involved a mix of driving, public transportation, walking and cabs.
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Instead, commit to making progress on these goals, too — even if it means cutting back on other spending choices, like taking cabs or eating out.
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Over 10,000 Ubers, Lyfts and yellow cabs roam Manhattan central business district streets between 4 and 6 pm, double the number just four years ago.
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WeChat is the dominant chat app used in China, and by 2014 people were already booking cabs from within WeChat's interface without leaving the app.
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Men in the stands yell out their bets, laugh, bust each other's chops, and wave their hands in the air as though they're hailing cabs.
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Those all-electric cabs all have limited range estimates of a few hundred miles per charge, however, which pale in comparison to Nikola's massive range.
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Partly it's because Los Angeles is a strange, alien land full of beautiful eccentrics who use private jets like the rest of us use cabs.
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Two months later, the company says it is bringing Ola Play to all its Prime cabs — premium cars such as Sedan and MUV's — across India.
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Over-the-water bungalows are to South Pacific islands as yellow cabs are to New York City — if a cab ride cost a couple grand.
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For many taxi drivers, this influx of rideshares and cabs has indeed drowned out the livelihoods that they were sometimes working to build for years.
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Over the next hour, he methodically tested out each piece of Swedish iron—or at least the ergonomics of their cabs and their fancy touchscreens.
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Yellow cabs are also protesting a decision by the city government that would require them to replace taxi meters with software applications to collect fares.
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Which is why formula is actually such a terrific and lucky option, and breast pumps come in hand-held versions for the backseats of cabs.
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As the only Costco location in Manhattan, the store saw a ton of traffic — people took cabs from all over the island to shop there.
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Meanwhile, South Korea's Kakao has also said it would partner with JapanTaxi so that South Korean travelers could use some of the app's 60,000 cabs.
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But for the wide-scale deployment of autonomous cabs, working together will more likely bring the systems to the roads sooner than going it alone.
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Looking just at cabs and other ride-hailing services (and excluding hired private cars), Uber serves 69% of business trips, compared with 4% for Lyft.
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Following the let-down, my friends disperse into cabs, and I wander down the street with the 20-year-old who looks like Paris Hilton.
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Uber last week started running television ads opposing the cap, charging that it would hurt minority riders who yellow cabs cruising for fares often ignore.
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Even the tiny cabs that circulate in the old city (baptized with names like "Barbie") carry a portrait of J.C. himself propped on the dashboard.
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Among the newest initiatives: The City Council unveiled bills yesterday to prevent loans like the ones that left the drivers of yellow cabs in debt.
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Seattle, Portland and Chicago already charge fees and put the proceeds toward supporting wheelchair-accessible cabs, safety inspections and — get this — investing in public transit.
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Their actions turned one of the best-known symbols of New York — its signature yellow cabs — into a financial trap for thousands of immigrant drivers.
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Mr. Cabrera, who has been driving cabs for over 20 years, said the NV200 is his fourth vehicle, after having owned three Ford Crown Victorias.
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Uber says it provides millions of rides per week in London, and with roughly 45,000 drivers, its fleet nearly doubles the number of black cabs.
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The city wanted green taxis to be an antidote to a longstanding problem: Yellow cabs rarely pick up people outside Manhattan, except at the airports.
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New data show business travelers are increasingly turning to Uber and Lyft while taking fewer cabs and renting fewer cars when out on the road.
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Drivers of black cabs have protested against Uber over the years, saying the company does not adhere to the same rules that they have to.
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Empty truck cabs were struck first to scare off drivers sleeping in their rigs, and General Harrigian said it appeared there were no civilian casualties.
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We run your convenience store, drive your cabs, feed you late-night food when you've had a drink or look after you when you're ill.
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The CEO of Uber has dismissed the idea that his app will soon be able to dispense with drivers in order to control taxi cabs.
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Just in Paris, the country's capital, more than 40,000 cabs are buzzing around, though to this early stage only 3,333 have signed on to Le.Taxi.
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Yellow cabs drivers, meanwhile, have been covered in the past through the Taxi Workers Alliance, an advocacy fund, but are also often without health insurance.
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Its product and concept arsenal also includes non-double decker motorcoaches, semi-truck cabs, garbage trucks, forklifts, energy storage units, taxis, and skyrails, all fully electric.
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In Thailand, Taxi Radio uses calls and text messages to put cabs and people in touch and is popular with those without smartphone apps, and HeyKuya!
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After I spent over $700 on ride-sharing apps and cabs in December, I swore I would only take public transportation for the month of January.
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"I don't think Afghan women will ever go back," Kamila Seddiqi, 41, said an entrepreneur involved in businesses that include Afghanistan's first taxi app, Kaweyan Cabs.
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In August, amid a saturation of cabs, black limousines and ride-hailing vehicles, the New York City Council halted its issuance of new for-hire licenses.
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We found that most CIOs (Chief Information Officers) are super excited (almost to the point of being too eager) to join CABs for early-stage startups.
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The firm will offer private vehicles for hire as well as Britain's famous black cabs on its platform, and will add more transportation options going forward.
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The company also defended the dynamic pricing model by arguing that it was necessary to ensure that cabs were available on the roads during peak demand.
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A little fashion trivia for you: In 1998, Helmut Lang became the first designer in history to advertise on the top of New York's taxi cabs.
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And they have kept the number of cab medallions artificially low to drive up the price of them and to regulate how many cabs were there.
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Even in Manhattan, where yellow cabs have historically reigned supreme, ride-hail apps were close to surpassing the taxi industry by the end of last year.
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Both companies argue that surge pricing is determined by an algorithm that factors in the demand for cabs at a time, rather than decided by them.
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CABS Platform and Slevin together own just over 9 percent of Petropavlovsk's stock and have offshore addresses in Panama and Anguilla, according to Thomson Reuters data.
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"I've found myself in the rain with no cabs stopping for me and just cursing in the street, thinking, 'This is so unfair,&apos" she says.
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Though Via and Curb wouldn't disclose exact figures, the companies confirmed that the deal is based on a revenue share between the cabs, Via and Curb.
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And with Uber under pressure from drivers due to recently slashed fares, Gross said more and more drivers are coming back to yellow and green cabs.
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And now China's tech giants have crashed onto American shores: last month, cabs in New York and Las Vegas began accepting Alipay, Alibaba's mobile payment juggernaut.
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Some protesters attacked rival taxi cabs and pulled drivers out of their cars who did not agree with their aim of banning app-based transport services.
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It also owns the London Taxi Company, which will produce the next generation of electric black cabs in Coventry as well as small electric commercial vehicles.
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The Haggler noted a few weeks ago that the commission had commenced a pilot program in which screens were to be yanked out of 1,74.993 cabs.
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Cabbies, many of them immigrants, spent fortunes on official taxi medallions that gave them exclusive rights to pick up people who hail cabs on the street.
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The exchange suggests either poor communication between the agencies, or that the TLC cannot tell on its end which cabs are being used by the NYPD.
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It recently partnered with Hyundai to introduce an on-demand vehicle service for residents in Irvine, California, where passengers can share autonomous cabs using an app.
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Eleven said they were undecided, but some of those appeared more likely to support the cap in response to the agreement on yellow cabs and bias.
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In New York, where the law clearly states guide dogs can accompany their owners everywhere, I frequently run into trouble — in restaurants, cabs, parks, even hospitals.
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All around the metropolitan area, cabs and Uber cars are picking up immigrants who know driving their own cars may get them no further than detention.
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"To go to St. Louis and its segregated hotels, restaurants, cabs, living districts and attitude was a cultural shock," Naulls told the Knicks' Hardwood Classic website.
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But Uber's presence in London has angered the drivers of the city's iconic "black cabs", who have previously blocked London's streets in protest at the app.
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As for the more expensive yellow cabs, they are never available in bad weather, never around during the shift changes and too often without air-conditioning.
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That, they say, allows Uber to keep its prices lower than those of black cabs — Uber can be up to 30 percent cheaper than London taxis.
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Shippers and receivers were closing their waiting rooms to truckers, posting signs to ask them to stay in their cabs while goods were loaded and unloaded.
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The city won the court challenge and the value plummeted, but not because of competition from the green cabs that went on the streets in 2013.
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Along with the movie's Checker cabs, rotary phones, outsized answering machines and clunky desktop computers, these mean streets have a Pompeian quality, relics of the past.
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A Mumbai-based journalist named Rachel Lopez has been documenting the colorful ceilings of the city's black-and-yellow taxis, also known as kaali-peeli cabs.
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In effect, ride-hailing would be thought of as a luxury in a place already well-serviced by public transportation and yellow cabs, and priced accordingly.
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The boxy cabs queuing up around the corner at St. Pancras Station included several electric cars that were indistinguishable from the originals, except that they purr.
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Uber faces an aggressive and well-funded Indian rival, Ola Cabs, which operates in 2000 cities and offers a wider range of services than Uber does.
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Uber fares are about 30 percent lower than those of black cabs — a discrepancy that cabbies say signals a deliberate attempt to kill off their trade.
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The issue is one trucking companies are acutely aware of and it has prompted some to use cameras in the cabs of semis to monitor drivers.
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Two words: Uber and Lyft, which overwhelmed taxi cabs' stranglehold on the transportation market with an irresistible combination of modern technology, superior service, and lower prices.
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Niche luxury brands of British heritage like Bentley, Rolls-Royce and Lotus are also now foreign-owned, as is the maker of London's famed black cabs.
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"It gives safe transportation to people in communities where the cabs don't stop, where the color of your skin prohibits you from access," said the Rev.
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France's ailing taxi industry is supposed to benefit from a new government-funded mobile platform designed to help traditional cabs compete with ride-hailing service Uber.
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The one big advantage that France's government seems to be banking on though is the large number of traditional cabs available to sign up to Le.Taxi.
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This gave him an idea, and, at the age of twenty-one, he started a taxi business, buying two cabs and driving one of them himself.
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Trunking is something I did in high school and something I try to do in cabs now, but just didn't know it had an official name.
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In London in 1900, an estimated 300,000 horses pulled cabs and omnibuses, as well as carts, drays and haywains, leaving a swamp of manure in their wake.
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"I know the owners of Elite Strippers, and awhile back, they looked into advertising on the back of cabs, but unfortunately they wouldn't allow it," she said.
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KABUL — You summon a ride using the Kaweyan Cabs taxi-hailing app, listening to upbeat Pashtun pop as your driver takes you through streets clogged with traffic.
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The Transport Commission of Shenzhen announced on its official site this week that 99 percent of the city's more than 21,000 cabs are now powered by batteries.
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Chairman Carl-Peter Forster said the company aimed to produce around 10,000 cabs and light commercial vehicles a year by about 2020, up from 13,171 in 2015.
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And they included the availability of taxis in their control methods, so that they weren't comparing metropolitan areas with access to cabs like to those without them.
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London is staring up a pilot test of its electric black cabs (via Engadget), otherwise known as the TX5, after first revealing the vehicles back in 2015.
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A project launched by Wings Travels and community organization Humsafar Trust will train up to 300 members of the LGBT community to drive cabs in the city.
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"They are automatically logged in and their Hailo account details will be ready and waiting, meaning they can start hailing cabs straight away," the company notes today.
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And guests were put into cabs at the end of the night and given a personalized water color illustration to remember their time in the Catskills by.
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Dash is currently being tested in Verifone's cabs in Chicago, Boston, and New Orleans, while Ryde is only being rolled out in New York City for now.
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But before any of this can transpire, we get familiar DeLillo street life, witty repartee in the backs of cabs, rooftop views of the city at dusk.
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Cabs cannot operate in New York, Chicago, San Francisco or Boston unless they have a medallion, which effectively is a city permit to carry passengers for hire.
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She emerged from a doctor's appointment on Tuesday morning to find public transport shut down and walked a very long distance, because cabs were at a premium.
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Yet, this hasn't stilled Uber's growth there: it boasts 25,000 vehicles dispatched per week, compared with 13,000 yellow cabs and 5,000 Lyft cars, as of January 2016.
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Step inside most cabs, and your driver will welcome you in, consult with you on which route to take, and make sure you leave no belongings behind.
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Unlike yellow cabs, whose fares are set by the city and do not fluctuate, ride-hailing apps are allowed to charge effectively what the market will bear.
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Settling in Bedford-Stuyvesant, he found work, first at factories and driving gypsy cabs, then at the post office with a burglar-alarm business on the side.
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They can often be found playing backgammon on trash bins, chatting in small groups or, on hotter days, napping in their cabs with the windows rolled down.
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"The shine is off Uber," said Bhairavi Desai, executive director of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, which represents drivers of yellow cabs and for-hire vehicles.
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How it Works: The Gett app connects riders with several thousand of London's black cabs, and the average wait for a ride is less than five minutes.
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The Prices: Standard metered fares for London black cabs; there's no surge pricing, but rides are a minimum of £10 on the weekends and before 10 a.m.
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The new category of taxis that was created, the green cabs, could not pick up passengers in Manhattan south of East 96th Street or West 110th Street.
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It is true that the operators of London's famous, and famously pricey, black cabs, and labor groups, have long lobbied against Uber and its tech-savvy rivals.
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In all, he purchased more than 500 medallions, a fleet that operated hundreds of cabs for other owners and a company that provided loans to medallion owners.
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If the idea is implemented, New York could become one of the first cities in the United States to allow cabs to raise prices at certain times.
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Instead of calling an individual company to request a cab, passengers will be assigned rides through a centralized dispatch that connects all the cabs in the city.
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That smiling skinny man pedaling his bicycle among the honking cabs in a blue French worker's jacket with a camera slung around his neck — what a picture!
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Medallions, which are issued by the local taxi authority and are required for cabs to operate legally, once sold for more than $1 million in New York.
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Some were simply left perplexed by the PR drive from the Middle Eastern nation, which saw Bin Salman's face plastered on billboards and black cabs in London.
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After exploring various options, including special lights for ''no alcohol'' cabs, the commission decided to suspend the permits of drivers who refused to pick up such passengers.
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The number of traditional cabs — whose drivers learn "the Knowledge," meaning they don't rely on satellite navigation — has been falling for five years and is now 24,618.
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Dozens of the men and women driving traditional French cabs who were waiting for fares at Gare du Nord pinned the blame on the state's conflicting interests.
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The announcement resulted in Uber and Ola temporarily suspending surge pricing on Monday, but around 50 cabs run by taxi apps have been impounded for over-charging customers.
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African-American players like Ernie Warlick, Cookie Gilchrist and Paul Lowe could not use cabs, eat at restaurants, or stay in the same hotels as their white teammates.
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I'm also mostly taking UberX, the slightly cheaper option, and for a while, Uber was letting New Yorkers also use the app to hail yellow cabs for free.
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In China, people already use the popular instant message app WeChat for all sorts of daily tasks, from checking their bank balances to ordering cabs to buying sneakers.
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"Black Beauty" is a story told by a horse named Black Beauty, detailing how he goes from living on an idyllic English farm to pulling cabs in London.
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When I take a picture, the 5 apps that store & edit photos, when I go to maps, the 4 apps that can call the cabs and so forth.
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But despite the lack of open street warfare in London there's still no love lost between London's distinctive — and heavily regulated — Black Cabs and the Silicon Valley upstart.
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When a call came in, it immediately appeared on the laptop's screen, and using mirroring, a Dell rep was able to pull up Uber and see nearby cabs.
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The Hangzhou, China-based company also owns The London Taxi Company, which operates that city's iconic black cabs, and large chunks of Malaysia's Proton and the UK's Lotus.
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Yesterday, in response to the Motherboard article, he published his own gallery showing seven cabs that he's spotted in recent years which he believes to be cop cars.
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It can acquire symbolic treasures from elsewhere itself: the London Taxi Company, maker of the famous black cabs; House of Fraser, a retailer; Club Med, a holiday firm.
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The company wants to have a fleet of driverless cabs picking up riders everywhere by 2021, after all, so it's doing everything it can to hit that target.
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By having shopping, search, ordering cabs and other actions in one app, Facebook will be able to appeal to consumers not wanting 20 different apps on their smartphone.
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The Taxi and Limousine Commission estimated that 2100,22014 black and luxury cars were operating on Uber's platform within five boroughs, as opposed to the city's 2380,587 yellow cabs.
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For years, the traditional taxi industry has complained that Uber and Lyft don't have to comply with the same rules as yellow cabs, creating an uneven playing field.
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The city has too few cabs, and with several college campuses and the endless blocks of bars along Sixth Street, Uber and Lyft seemed to fit right in.
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LEVC opened a new factory in central England in March to produce electric black cabs with the aim of producing about 10,000 vehicles for British and overseas markets.
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When he was still a high school student in St. Louis, the tech giant became fascinated with computer programming — especially managing fleets of taxi cabs and delivery vehicles.
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Cabs have an initial charge of $2.50 plus 50 cents per one-fifth mile, when travelling above 12 miles an hour or per 60 seconds in slow traffic.
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Limiting the number of cabs on the street, of course, meant that the market was supplying fewer taxis than it would have absent the action by the city.
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"I do not believe that there was anybody who took cab driving as a profession before her who is a transgender (person)," said Viraj Chouhan, Ola Cabs' spokesman.
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President Trump suggested on Friday that his former lawyer Michael Cohen "is trying to make up stories ... to get himself out of an unrelated jam" regarding taxi cabs.
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"We know so many ways to buy free ticket, free cabs, free food, etc," Panda joked — but you suspect that there is a lot of truth behind that.
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While Camp highlighted "dead-time" with cabs, a 2018 report by Schaller Consulting found that for-hire vehicles drove an average of 2.1 miles without passengers between fares.
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"We've been getting into the backs of cabs the past few days and seeing glitter in all the seams," Nitya Vink, 47, said about herself and a friend.
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There are many commendable California cabs, but my favorite is Ridge Monte Bello, a Bordeaux blend from a vineyard in the Santa Cruz Mountains that's predominantly cabernet sauvignon.
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When no cabs were available, the officers offered the women a ride home, breaking protocol by failing to notify their command that the students were in their vehicle.
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The solution — taxis that could only operate away from the areas dominated by yellow cabs — now seems so 2011, which is when the Bloomberg administration first proposed it.
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Over time that breaks down as consumers are ignored, harassed, overcharged and forced into cabs that are filthy, or have drivers who are surly or cannot speak English.
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More than a decade later, in a Dickensian coincidence, Peter, who was still driving cabs, picked my father up from the airport and gave him a business card.
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In doing so, it will also redirect passengers who have defected to the ride-hailing apps for convenience and cost back to the yellow cabs they left behind.
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Those regulations include things like the colors of a company's cabs and the colors of their drivers' shoes and socks, as well as background checks and permitting processes.
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"After years of predatory loans and inflated medallion prices, the yellow cabs of New York really turned into financial traps for thousands of mostly immigrant drivers," she said.
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According to a document provided to Re/code, in 2015 the Austin Police Department received 27 reports of unwanted sexual contact in taxi cabs and ride-hailing services.
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These numbers — up from eight reports (exclusively in cabs) in 2014 — prompted the police department and assault survivor advocacy organizations to recommend more stringent background checks for drivers.
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In November, Uber made it easy for people to book cabs without downloading the app by launching its "Dial an Uber" feature across 29 Indian cities where it operates.
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Redacted debriefs shown to Reuters included details of how al Shabaab welds armor plates inside the cabs of vehicle bombs to prevent soldiers stopping them by shooting the driver.
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Before long #BritsSoWhite was trending, Laura Mvula was on the Andrew Marr Show and Big Narstie was being ferried in cabs between the Channel 4 and 20173 news studios.
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Months later, the original activist shareholder sold out and new ones - CABS Platform and Slevin, supported by Kazakh entrepreneur Kenges Rakishev - began demanding the return of Maslovskiy as CEO.
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Many, particularly women, are worried about traveling late at night, given that taking black cabs is more expensive — around 35% more, according to a study done earlier this year.
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The battle between London's black cabs and upstart incomer Uber has been a relatively subdued affair thus far — aside from the odd scuffle and some roadblocking demonstrations last year.
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Screeching subway cars and honking taxi cabs are hushed by the Elite 85h, and anything that's less of an assault to your ears is, of course, dampened even more.
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The cartel had been paying $103 billion in pay-offs each year, and practically own the phone lines, taxi cabs, and all the information in the city of Cali.
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In 2015, the conglomerate launched its own brand of sky-blue taxis which now parade the streets of Pyongyang alongside cabs from at least eight other state-owned companies.
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Video uploaded to social media shows one of Hong Kong's red taxi cabs, driving slowly in a sea of black-clad protesters, turning left and accelerating into the crowd.
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New England called a timeout after Butler's interception, but many Super Bowl party guests apparently didn't wait around to watch Tom Brady take a knee before they hailed cabs.
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Kaweyan Cabs, Kabul's version of Uber, is one of the most successful new businesses, founded by a woman named Kamila Siddiqi but since sold to another local business group.
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Harare taxi drivers say they are hearing more foreign languages in their cabs, businessmen gather around laptops at restaurants, and the often sleepy international airport is buzzing with newcomers.
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Lastly, Didi is upping the ante in cabs and bringing shared bicycles, electric bikes and other public transportation solutions under one umbrella in a bid to serve China's masses.
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I have a strict policy of not using cabs unless it's totally worth it, because it's expensive, and most of the time I can cover distances with public transport.
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But the intention of this plan is clear: both companies are moving aggressively to get a place in what's likely to be an enormous market of self-driving cabs.
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Cable and Wi-Fi: $34.85Travel: $121 for a monthly MetroCard pass, which comes out of my paycheck on a pre-tax basis; $60 for cabs; $24 for trains home.
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He says he is nothing to do with the activists named as CABS Platform and Slevin limited, which hold just over 9 percent, but largely agrees with their demands.
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Wi-Fi, USB charging and even a sunroof are among the new features of the six-seat, battery-powered cabs, with a range extender of up to 400 miles.
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Protests took a turn for the worse when a number of drivers pelted stones at an Uber office in Bangalore and attacked operating cabs, as reported in The Hindu.
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Rival services include third-party apps for calling cabs and private vehicles as well as taxi-booking services such as those provided by taxi operator ComfortDelGro Corp Ltd (CMDG.SI).
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All things being equal, that development will sound the death knell for taxis; expect cabs' share of the business market to diminish to almost nothing in the coming years.
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Just because you have your sights set on a Champagne routine when your fridge is strictly stocked with $8 Cabs doesn't mean you don't deserve your best skin ever.
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Wall posters, print and radio adverts in cabs, and even targeted posts on their social media channels showing influencers eating the chicken had been automatically absorbed by their brains.
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Public body Transport for London (TfL) proposed new restrictions on the way private hire firms operate last year after month of demonstrations from drivers of the capital's black cabs.
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His death has become the talk of the town in the conservative quarters of Gaza, the Palestinian coastal territory, endlessly discussed in living rooms, at checkpoints and in cabs.
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Today, as drivers switch to ride-hailing apps, McGuinness' cramped lot is overstuffed with rows of dozens of parked yellow cabs, ready to drive, but few drivers in sight.
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Some examples of time-saving costs include hiring someone else to mow your lawn or clean your home, ordering take-out, taking cabs over public transportation or shopping online.
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"Current safety standards for locomotive cabs and rail passenger cars are inadequate," the N.T.S.B. said in February when it unveiled its "most wanted" list of safety improvements for trains.
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A metro stop is also a five- to 10-minute walk away; buses run frequently along the neighboring Paseo de la Reforma, a main thoroughfare, and cabs are plentiful.
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The price of a taxi medallion rose to more than $1 million by 2014, from about $200,000 in 2002, even though the revenue that cabs could generate barely changed.
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To try to reach more people outside of the internet, Verishop recently launched a massive advertising campaign in New York, plastering ads across subway platforms and on taxi cabs.
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I still had to wear a white frilly dress to my First Communion like all the other girls, but I got a jean jacket and Vans Half Cabs too.
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An economic crisis has swept over New York City's taxi industry, spreading financial ruin and personal despair, especially for owners of medallions, the permits that let people operate cabs.
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And her beat doesn't end with the subway: It also encompasses buses, commuter rail lines, yellow and green cabs, ride-hailing services, traffic, pedestrians, drivers, bikers, bridges and ferries.
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These numbers, up from eight reports (exclusively in cabs) in 2014, prompted the Police Department and assault victims advocacy organizations to recommend the more stringent background checks for drivers.
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Sanders's well-meaning anecdotes about how hard it is for black men to catch cabs, and his clumsy railing against black poverty, simply wasn't convincing for Southern black voters.
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But she also supports an exemption for yellow cabs, which are a mix of public and private, and that have struggled to survive with the influx of ride hailing companies.
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Since the rules changed in April, the congestion-charge exemption has been available only to black cabs and to the 0.6% of private-hire vehicles that are accessible to wheelchairs.
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One of the most frequent out of home ads I (and probably every other New Yorker) sees are the illuminated miniature billboards on the tops of cabs, called taxi toppers.
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These kinds of problems are basically find-the-best-solution-to-a-complex-thing, like how to send a fleet of cabs onto the road without having their paths cross.
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With blaring horns, members of Argentina's powerful taxi unions drove their yellow-and-black cabs or marched through the capital at the start of a planned two days of protests.
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For example, in the next decade or so, automation and technology is poised to transform transportation — from long-haul trucks and local cabs to possibly car dealers and vehicle makers.
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He was one of the faces of NYU marketing videos streamed on TV and in taxi cabs, but now has disappeared from the hospital's public website and social media pages.
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He wanted to know what colour he should paint his cabs in order to make them stand out among the sea of black vehicles that then inhabited American city streets.
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The new, aptly named 'Japan Taxi' (or Jpn Taxi for conveniently fitting on a rooftop sign) is already on roads, and bears a slight resemblance to London's signature black cabs.
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For more information on shuttles, public transportation like Greyhound or Amtrak, taxi cabs, limo services, friend and family pick up and drop off, electric car charging, and more, go here.
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On the the streets of New York City, that can mean some of the iconic yellow cabs are in fact disguised NYPD cop cars—but how can you spot them?
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In the 90's, the company switched over to GPS satellite technology, eventually building out an app that works similar to other ride-sharing services, but for licensed black cabs.
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Uber can be a lifeline for women, people of colour, LGBT people, and people with disabilities, for whom black cabs are not an option and night buses can feel unsafe.
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Next, the shards are turned into pellets and sorted for their color (how else would they make battalions of aviation goggles-wearing, sapphire bears, or classic, banana-hued taxi cabs?).
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Since the announcement of odd-even traffic restrictions, taxi apps led by Uber and Ola cabs, have been aggressively promoting carpooling as a way to reduce traffic and air pollution.
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Events are one of the leading causes of surges, they learned, and cabs, as well as Uber and Lyft vehicles spend more than half their time without passengers on average.
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McGowan bought the plane last year for his transportation themed park in County Sligo, Ireland, which also includes ten double decker buses, three trains, four boats, and eight taxi cabs.
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Ola had estimated that its "Micro" service, which offers cabs for as low as Rs 6 (8 cents) per kilometre would be as big as Uber's entire operations in India.
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Flywheel says it hopes to have its smartphone meter in 1,000 cabs by the end of 2016, and to dominate all 13,000-plus yellow taxis by the end of 2017.
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Uber's been deemed not "fit and proper" for London so, for now at least, you may have to hail one of those stylish black cabs to get around the city.
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"In big cities known for traffic, you'll want to avoid cabs and rideshares that can add up quickly since public transit can be faster as well as cheaper," McMahon said.
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President Obama was visiting on Tuesday, and New York Fashion Week was in full swing, but the dearth of cabs could have been attributed to something else on the calendar.
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New York is home to nearly 144,000 active drivers of medallion cabs, livery cars and other for-hire vehicles, according to a 2016 report from the Taxi and Limousine Commission.
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Some examples of time-saving costs include hiring someone else to mow your lawn or clean your home, ordering take away food, taking cabs over public transportation or shopping online.
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I did the math and was a bit embarrassed to find I was spending up to $300 a month on Ubers, Lyfts and yellow cabs...so that was a wash.
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Clean air is a rarity in the world's most polluted city Delhi, where local authorities are trying to curb pollution through desperate measures like traffic restrictions and banning diesel cabs.
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Videos on the hotel's website and Facebook page show the former footballer travelling around London choosing the city's most iconic features, including black cabs, red buses, telephone boxes, and pubs.
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The reference to taxi cabs appears to be a jab at Cohen's ownership of a number of taxi medallions, which are required to operate yellow taxis in New York City.
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That's sort of the thing—if hundreds of thousands spill out from the shutdown, it'll add a significant number of people to the streets, be it through cabs and buses.
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"When I worked in San Francisco, there would usually be more ads for cabs in women's restrooms," he says, noting that he hadn't noticed similar precautions in New York bars.
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PayPal, which can be spotted on London black cabs but has yet to push into other parts of Europe, says it is banking on its brand awareness around the globe.
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According to Mr. Sykes, tips from hailing cabs once accounted for a quarter to a third of his tip haul, but Uber has sliced that amount by at least half.
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The two-wheeler business, which like the cabs business sees someone drive a passenger around, was launched in 2016 and has created livelihoods for close to 300,000 people in India.
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Unlicensed cabs crowded city streets, so officials designed about 12,000 specialized tin plates and made it illegal to operate a taxi without one bolted to the hood of the car.
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And I think you see this in New York today, where a vast majority of people don't own cars because it's much more convenient to use ... Like cabs, public transportation.
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In their research, Rosenblat and Stark also identified a phenomenon some have called "phantom cabs," in which the app misrepresents the location of cars on its map to its users.
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"Nobody wanted to upset the industry," said David Klahr, who from 2007 to 2016 held several management posts at the Taxi and Limousine Commission, the city agency that oversees cabs.
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At one point in 2000, 220,2000 Londoners a day were installing the app on their phones, eschewing iconic black cabs in favor of a Toyota Prius summoned with a tap.
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But one type of bicycle that is rarely seen is a mountain bike — its knobby tires too cumbersome in Midtown traffic, its handlebars too wide to squeeze between taxi cabs.
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Wired's Alex Davies (a former BI transportation editor) and I checked out the roomy-roomy-roominess, which reminded me of London black cabs and the old Checkers in New York.
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Police initially treated the attack as a hate crime and were able to ascertain the men's identities, in part, through cabs and rideshares that they took after the attack, Cmdr.
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They included positive train control, crew memory training, train location devices, improved protection for passengers such as stronger windows and installation of video cameras showing the interior of locomotive cabs.
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What I was really after was an escape from a gray, slushy New York day, not that the snow isn't lovely after a few thousand cabs have driven through it.
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The ride-sharing app has recently shifted its focus to the city's other boroughs, leading it to a milestone: More people are using Uber than the city's fabled yellow cabs.
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Investors under the names of CABS Platform and Slevin have called for long-time chief executive and co-founder Pavel Maslovskiy to return to the board and for other management changes.
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With this update, Uber will be available globally, Ola Cabs in India, Gett in the UK, Hailo in the UK and Spain, Mytaxi in Germany and Spain, and 99Taxis in Brazil.
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According to the website, they're "ideal for sweat sessions of all kinds: running sprints, chasing cabs, getting zen, binge-watching anything," and the sleek design comes in sizes XS to 3XL.
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But in a world where Airbnb, in effect the world's largest hotel chain, owns no hotels and Uber, its largest taxi firm, owns no cabs, such policies are of limited use.
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Even with her impressionistic style, one can see the models of yellow cabs evolve over the years, the different street vendors and the changing store signs as businesses opened and closed.
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At first, WeChat's international version lacked a lot of the features that make it appealing within China, including the ability to make payments at a variety of shops and hail cabs.
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The ride-hailing firm will offer private vehicles for hire as well as the popular black cabs on its platform and will add more transportation options going forward, the company said.
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The classic taxicab market in the United States was plagued with regulations restricting the supply of cabs available to be hailed in a way that went far beyond basic safety concerns.
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Gazelle Amber Valentine, guitarist-vocalist for Jucifer, uses 30 cabs to form what she calls "Thee White Wall Ov Death," and has done for the entirety of the band's 24 years.
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At the same time, app-based taxi services such as Uber and its Chinese counterpart Didi Dache, which are often cheaper and more efficient than conventional cabs, are also growing quickly.
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According to open data compiled by Todd Schneider, New York City's yellow cabs averaged just under 352,000 trips per day in January 2016, while Uber vehicles made 150,000 trips per day.
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To that end, in recent weeks, Volkswagen has invested some $300 million in Uber rival Gett, showed an electric Microbus revival at CES, and announced plans to explore self-driving cabs.
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Uber was integrated into Maps years ago, but more recent additions include 99Taxis in Brazil, Ola Cabs in India, Hailo in the UK and Spain, and mytaxi in Germany and Spain.
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"Yellow cabs have been great about this in the past," Salzberg said, adding that such companies often held monopolies over their markets, making the release of data of little competitive concern.
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It played on nearly every speaker — from clubs to cabs and restaurants to bridal showers ... over and over and over again, and has since become the most-viewed video on YouTube.
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At the moment, it's a sore topic in London, where I live, but the new generation of drivers are very different from the professional cabbies who drove the famous hackney cabs.
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New York City is expanding a taxi dispatch service for the disabled to allow people who use wheelchairs to order accessible cabs in the boroughs outside Manhattan, officials announced on Wednesday.
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But federal investigators appear to be especially focused on his work as an investor in taxi medallions, the permits that drivers need to legally operate yellow cabs in New York City.
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In addition to long-established taxis, livery cabs, black cars and limousines, they can summon rides through Uber, Lyft, Via, Juno and other app-based ride-hailing and ride-sharing services.
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TechCrunch understands that Ola is offering very few cabs across the country only to support healthcare workers and others who need to work from outside their homes to support public services.
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The Uber spokesman, Jason Post, said Uber provided "an enormous earning opportunity by connecting drivers with more rides," especially in far-flung neighborhoods where fewer green cabs circulate looking for passengers.
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As in many cities, Uber has disrupted powerful interests in London, starting with the drivers of black cabs, who trace their lineage to 1634, and their influential Licensed Taxi Drivers Association.
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Yellow cabs made an average of 000,225 trips per day in March 212, down from 32,886 the year before, according to the city's Taxi and Limousine Commission, which regulates the industry.
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International air travel is the primary culprit, followed by accommodation (lights, water and electricity in hotels), then cabs and black cars, and then the emissions associated with transporting the fashion collections.
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In one of his best-known photographs, an elegantly dressed couple kiss atop a taxicab on an Upper Manhattan street jammed with three lanes of cabs, which Mr. Smith had hired.
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On a tour of roads near Buffalo, he climbed up on truck cabs to admonish drivers who were violating a statewide ban on tractor-trailers using some highways during a storm.
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Whereas taxi cabs are required to be painted certain colors or have noticeable markings, the appeal of ride-share apps is that drivers can use their own vehicle to make money.
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On Tuesday, France's transportation department officially launched Le.Taxi, a service designed to enable people to electronically hail traditional French cabs via the Internet, similar to how customers get rides from Uber.
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Then there's the loud music that residents said awakens them at night, typically blasting from Ubers, Lyfts and cabs depositing drunk young guests at their rentals, or from the homes themselves.
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The actor is recreating a dramatic night he experienced in London 15 years ago involving a nightclub, a chase in two of the city's iconic black taxi cabs and a police cell.
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Authorities in Ciudad Juarez have installed brightly colored pink and blue portable washrooms along the line, and were handing out drinking water to truckers, some of whom slept in their cabs overnight.
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Similarly in India, the other international market where Uber is trying to take down a massive local player in Ola Cabs, the company raised money from a subsidiary of Indian conglomerate Tata.
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The six taxi companies (Green Cab, International Motor, Kusumi Transportation, Checker Cab Radio Cooperative Association, Hinomaruku Transporation, and Daiwa Motor) have a combined fleet of 10,000 cabs in the Greater Tokyo Area.
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Of course minivans can function like van cabs that allow people to haul their belongings (this will be critical when people need to go shopping or on trips without their own car).
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The government also warned of strict action including the impounding cabs and cancellation of permits against those found to be violating the rules, and said that it could make the ban permanent.
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LEVC says we can expect to see the vehicles on London streets later this year, just in time for new Transport for London (TfL) rules stating that all new cabs from Jan.
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Its latest feat The Taxi Project sees another re-edition of one of their archival moves: Helmut Lang is bringing its iconic branding back to the tops of New York's yellow cabs.
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