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PostPosted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 9:10 am    Post subject: Cabbies threaten to strike over GPS Reply with quote

New York's Taxi and Limousine Commission wants to upgrade the city's cabs with a bit of high-tech gadgetry. The commission is requiring each of the city's 13,000 taxis to install GPS systems and touch-screen panels mounted in the back seat. The new technology will let people pay for a cab by credit card and map a route as they're going through the city.

On Wednesday, though, the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, an advocacy group that represents more than 8,000 drivers, threatened to strike over the new gear. The drivers' worry: GPS route-mapping will turn passengers into backseat drivers Laughing , and it will let cab owners spy on drivers Smile .

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 11:44 am    Post subject: Re: Cabbies threaten to strike over GPS Reply with quote

mostdom wrote:
The new technology will let people pay for a cab by credit card and map a route as they're going through the city.


Yeah, how about they give us a printout of the route taken too. That will keep them honest.... Thieving &*%^%^'s
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