World Taxi Cabs News
Harmless and aromatic taxi.
26/03/2010 - www.taxorg.org
Japanese taxi companies Hinomaru Limousine has demonstrated to the public a new electric taxi «Zero», with zero exhaust emissions into the atmosphere.
Unique Taxi also equipped with special flavors that are a pleasant smell in the cabin. Electric taxi drivers are the only women who can offer their passengers an extensive tourist information in the trip.
Stockholm airport will serve the eco-friendly taxis.
26/03/2010 - www.travel.ru
Directorate of Stockholm Arlanda airport to give priority to customer service so taxis that run on ethanol or biogas produced from food waste. Thus, the airport wants to increase the share of environmentally friendly cars in general taxis servicing this transportation hub.
At ekotaksi suffered graphic green leaf or a word miljöbil. By July 1, 2011 100% of taxis serving the airport, should be environmentally friendly. Airport is actively working to reduce its impact on the environment. This is true not only of the airport itself, but also transport, leaving and arriving in it.
Bars in Argentina will pay for there drunken customers.
26/03/2010 - www.izvestia.ru
In the Argentine city of Santa Fe, capital of the eponymous province, bars and restaurants will now pay for a taxi to their drunken customers who are not in a position to sit behind the wheel. This measure will come into force on 1 April.
The decision to grant a taxi to visitors, unable to independently get to the house, was the result of an agreement the City Hall, located at 470 km north-west of Buenos Aires, and the Association of Hotel and gastronomic business.
Bars who will pay for transportation to its customers, will receive certain tax benefits.
The initiative, according to its creators, is aimed at promoting the development of culture in customer care, and not to promote drinking. Some opponents of this idea believe that it will only contribute to the spread of alcoholism.
The undoubted advantage of this program is that with its introduction of the number of drunken drivers on the streets of the city declined.
In Maryland, a woman, ehavshaya to the hospital, gave birth right in the taxi.
23/03/2010 - www.cafemam.ru
As a result, the hospital had come she was not alone, but with a newborn.
Tanieka Vaughan had a baby in the cab of his father. When the man's daughter sat in the back seat, then saw the baby's head appears. Childbirth has proved to be near a doctor.
Mother and baby hospitalized in a medical center of the University of Maryland.
Britain sells tradition.
21/03/2010 - www.bfm.ru
Production London black cabs moved to China. Manganese Bronze, the parent company of taxi manufacturer LTI, also announced plans to sell shares and transfer of controlling shareholder China Geely Automobile.
Traditionally, the British car brands Mini and Rolls-Royce now become German, Jaguar Land Rover - Indian, Aston Martin - the Middle East. A few weeks London taxi manufacturer Manganese Bronze, the owner of London Taxis International, will become Chinese. It is another loss of British Industry. And in this case the traditional British symbol, in fact one of the sights - famous black London kebe. But the alternative - the ruin of the producer, writes British The Times.
The company Manganese Bronze said it has launched additional shares to its Chinese joint venture partner and shareholder of Geely Automobile. As a result, a minority shareholder will present a package of 51% of Manganese Bronze. Issue will be held at the price of 70 pence for the paper, which implies a 18 percent discount to the average market price of 85.5 pence. As a result, Manganese Bronze will attract 14 million pounds to repay debt and working capital. Minority shareholders, who can be against such a measure, there is little they can do, writes The Times. Manganese enters the market in this section of AIM with more liberal regulation, where the rules allow issuers such a maneuver. Nevertheless, to decide on the transition to AIM, Manganese will need support from holders of more than 50% of the shares. But it is virtually guaranteed.
Executive Director, Manganese, John Russell (John Russell) said that the company has virtually no choice. "To compete with other manufacturers producing a taxi from low-cost production, we had to buy parts from China.
The company said that the factory in Coventry will be cut another 60 jobs, there will be only 120 people on assembly lines. It was decided along with other components imported from China as the body and chassis cab models of the latest TX4, their assembly will be carried out in Coventry. According to Russell, in the future in the UK will remain the smaller and less costly production with a much larger volume of exports from China.
Manganese pretax loss last year increased to 8.1 million pounds against 6.2 million pounds in 2008.
Manganese Bronze black cab has released the first in 1948. Since then, the assembly line of the company went down more than 100 thousand legendary machines. Taxi LTI - a familiar part of the traditional image of London, even though such machines are found on the streets of other cities in the world.
His usual name of the current black cab has received from the light two-horse cabriolet 19 century (Hackney Cabs), which replaced the more massive crews of 17-18 centuries. Today's black cab - one of these symbols of the city, along with Big Ben, Tower Bridge and the red double-decker buses. Over the years, the production has been replaced several models of different brands, but the cab has always remained associated with the image of London. Today, the main producer of the London Taxi is owned by LTI Vehicles, owned by Manganese Bronze. From October 2006 to manufacture a new model of taxi TX4.
London taxi is a model of reliability and security. Before you get a license, the next taxi driver must pass a test, called The Knowledge. To successfully pass it, the driver must be able to know the city, attractions and the shortest driving directions from one point to another. Preparing for the test may take more than three years, that is the study of his craft cabman devotes an enormous amount of time. Driver who has successfully passed the most difficult test that is guaranteed to choose the most rational route, thus saving time and money for the client. To all the black taxi used clear eligibility requirements (Conditions of Fitness), regulating the diameter of the turning vehicle and the parameters of the cabin. Including traditionally provides that the ceiling height in the passenger compartment should be such that the car could comfortably accommodate a gentleman in the cylinder. Since January 2000, all cabs must be adapted for passengers in wheelchairs. Then replace the previous model cab FX4 (also called Fairway) model came TX1.
The highest level of requirements for the traditional black kebam really can achieve the highest level of service.
London taxis are the best in the world, evidenced by the survey, conducted in 2009 by order of a tourism portal Hotels.com involving 1,400 travelers. London taxi drivers have been recognized as the most friendly and knowledgeable city best. London taxis have also been among the best according to criteria such as cleanliness of cars and the opportunity to catch the car at any time. In addition, a trip to London taxi - the safest in the world, reports the BBC
Tourists go to a grand tour of Australia in a taxi.
16/03/2010 - www.eg.ru
The route will be 11 thousand kilometers
Australian Ministry of Tourism invited ten couples to make a nine-week trip in a taxi across the west of the continent.
Applications for participation in this action have filed hundreds of Australian taxi drivers. Passengers may be a pair from Australia, Britain, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia and Germany. To participate in the selection must be sent to organizers of the contest 60-second video clip or a letter, which lists the advantages of the candidate.
All participants will be required to travel to travel blogs with photos and videos with the sights and beaches of the west coast of Australia. All expenses, including accommodation and meals will be paid by the authorities. Beginning stocks already scheduled for April 9.
Egypt struck female taxi on sexual harassment.
15/03/2010 -
mignews.com
Egypt, like most other Arab states, has a bad reputation when it comes to the attitude of men towards women. The Islamic ban on the emergence of women in public unaccompanied by counsel not grow up in a vacuum - single women ever become objects ribald jokes, hoots, and indecent touching.
98% foreign and 83% of Egyptian women say that they were targets of sexual harassment. At the same time, in Egypt there is no law defining the term "sexual harassment" and punishment. Meanwhile, the level of violence against women has increased so much, Deputy Speaker of the Parliament Zeinab Radwan said that it could cause "a collapse of the nation."
Egyptian society is struggling with this, however, the introduction and implementation of stringent laws to protect the dignity of women and efforts to stop bullying on the streets, and sexual segregation in all spheres of public life, including segregation in transportation.
In the Cairo subway for quite some time cruising wagons "just for women.
Many cafes also announced that their exclusive clientele are women.
Now in Cairo, had the first taxi company, drivers and customers which are exclusively the fairer sex.
Despite the fact that the female taxi is very popular, not everyone is happy with his appearance. Feminist indicate that such initiatives "further widening the gap between the sexes, while men grumble that women are taking away from them" men's work.
The New York taxi drivers cheated their passengers to 8.3 million.
14/03/2010 - www.rg.ru
In the city of yellow taxi - New York erupted scandal: how clarified Town Hall, drivers over the years have used "recycled" counters to service its passengers.
As it turned out during the investigation, which was held on the complaint of one of the passengers deceived, some taxi drivers deliberately used to pay for the higher rate of intercity travel, designed for suburban routes and trips to the suburbs of New York.
As a result of wrong "ticking timers" gathered c yellow taxi passengers, at least 8.3 million "extra" money. As calculated in the City Hall of New York, nearly 2 million visits to the largest U.S. city people have cost twice as much than they should be.
Interestingly, in New York, cruising about 48 thousand licensed taxis and more than 35 thousand of them at least once cheated of their passengers. Of these, more than anything "distinguished" 3 thousand individuals ushlyh drivers of yellow taxis, which are collected from their customers pay double to 100 times or more. And one uncovered in catch a taxi driver and does go on record, cheated 574 people in just one month.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has harshly criticized the work of urban taxis and said that "some people are facing serious charges." In addition, Bloomberg was extremely disappointed by the fact that money back passenger shortchanged New York "cabs" are not.
Indeed, the current in the large cities of the U.S. system does not suggest an automatic issuance of checks passengers a taxi - the fare is displayed on the screen, the electronic counter. At the same time, in the case of a request to issue a check of the passenger, the driver is obliged to do so, however, hardly any of defrauded customers of the New York taxi kept these documents.
As estimated in the course of the investigation, the average overpayment for the services of taxi drivers in New York was within $ 5. "Conspiracy of taxi drivers" have to disclose the data path through comparing machines with sensors GPS, installed in all New York taxis since 2007, and the actual travel.
Meanwhile, the mayor of New York has ordered the set for taxi passengers special monitors, which will inform them immediately in case of a higher fare for the trip.
Maternity hospital on wheels.
12/03/ 2010
- Daily Mail (UK) / panoramio.com
New York taxi cab traffic jams have turned to the hospital, and the taxi driver - a midwife. Woman gave birth in the car, before reaching the hospital. Car at the time stuck in traffic jams in a Brooklyn tunnel.
Newborn baby, weighing just over three kilograms, was named Jacob. He was born in a taxi cab to the great surprise of his mother, father and a taxi driver. Couple in rush hour trying to get to the hospital.
Contractions in 31-year-old Mai Poulton began the morning of Thursday, and they muzhom went to the hospital. However, impatient kid did not wait until the parental taxi passes all traffic jams.
- "We were horrified. What are we going to do now?" - Recalls a young mother. - "Little has emerged, but the umbilical cord still connected it with me, and I was lying half-naked in the backseat of a taxi."
Terms of survival in a foreign taxi.
10/03/2010 -
Turist.rbc.ru
There is hardly a more dangerous and unpredictable traffic than a taxi. The drivers of all countries are similar: they were cheated, deceived, and even rob, rape and kill their clients. What should we expect, stopping a taxi in a city of peace?
Seoul, South Korea
It seems that taxi drivers can not get lost on the streets of Seoul, as their cars are equipped with GPS-navigators. However, some drivers were replaced by machines in minitelevizory: much more interesting to watch movies than to track the satellite path. Last year, city officials have declared the practice illegal, and even impose a fine of 500 dollars, but the court overturned that decision. Local police believe that such fans of TV in 2008 became the perpetrators of 200 accidents that have affected 350 people.
Tip: A trip to a white car would be cheaper, but safer to choose the black taxis, which are usually waiting for customers at the door of the hotel. Much less can be seen orange car, but more likely it is that their drivers understand in English, which means that they can use to explain that you should not watch soap operas at the wheel.
Mexico City, Mexico
At first glance, the problems with taxis in Mexico City there: visible green cars are omnipresent. However, the capital is full of frightening stories of a taxi - about a quarter of cars pirated. Their drivers have been working in the genre of "express kidnappings": the client is brought to the ATM and at gunpoint forced to withdraw all funds from the plastic card.
Tip: better to use only those taxis that are caused by a hotel employee. And before getting into a car, check her room: Does this figure has been manager?
New Delhi, India
Market metropolitan taxi in India is divided between black and yellow Fiat and colorful motorikshi. They must use the meter and observe tariffs, but the trouble is that the drivers ignore the fact, and more. Trip to motorikshe more dangerous: in these small cars no seat belts, or even doors. Tuk-tuki (namely the so-called in India, these many-scooters) continually fall into the news reports: that drivers were robbed and raped by passengers, the carriages suddenly ignite spontaneously.
Tip: many shops are special cards on which you can calculate the cost of travel. And the head waiter to order a taxi, ask your hotel - he certainly call into one of the two most reputable and reliable companies operating in India.
Johannesburg, South Africa
During the apartheid era in minivans rode on the work of the proletarians, and now these cars become a shuttle bus, which can be found almost everywhere. But they obviously should not be used for those who suffer from claustrophobia: a salon for up to 10 seats, stuffed usually people 20. However, and all the rest should think before you sit in a wagon of: drivers prefer not to think about the traffic rules and ride on a crazy speed.
Tip: on the black continent, existing customary law - addressed to the staff at the reception by the hotel, he will call a taxi for a solid company with the insured driver.
Lima, Peru
Voting in the street, you are literally asking for themselves to ensure that you have been robbed or raped. The U.S. State Department reported that in 2007, a taxi was robbed even of the American Embassy. What is the reason? The fact is that in this country to become a taxi driver can be anyone who buys or simply take a rental car and put him on a plate. And many nonresident drivers know the city is much worse than the tourists.
Tip: The hotel staff is sure to help solve the problem and cause a reliable taxi. But do not forget to make sure that the driver has locked the door, because armed robbers sometimes jump in the car, standing at the crossroads.
Cairo, Egypt
On these black Fiat scary to watch, even when they are on the spot. A lot of old cars, no lights, some body parts replaced with "non-native" and unpainted. However, if you happen to go in this car, you probably will forget about such trifles. The drivers say the rules unnecessary formality, like to drive the car, casually holding the steering wheel with one hand, and even at night prefer not to include the lights.
Tip: You better stop the choice on the "yellow" taxi one of the three companies - working on such machines, drivers are trained better "chernofiatnyh" colleagues.
Bangkok, Thailand
Sitting in a three-wheeled tuk-tuk, it is hardly worth it to seek safety belts. This transport is not for the faint of heart: delicate motorikshi at great speed cut into the dense flow of traffic, so that the passengers only the wind whistling in my ears (after all, the doors, then this form of transport is also provided). On the road the driver will try to start you in a variety of shops, restaurants and massage parlors - from the owners of these establishments, he receives a commission for each customer.
Tip: The taxi from the colorful cars in the Thai capital of hurt in her eyes. They say that the most multilingual drivers go in the green car. North to the cabin, pay attention to the counter. If it does not work, but the driver does not think to include it, better look for another taxi.
Manila, Philippines
Sit in a car with a stranger - a bad idea anywhere, but in this city especially, because to rob those who sit in the back seat - one of the most common crimes. First of all, do not sit in cars parked along the side streets. And even if the passenger had attacked no one, lives miserable sitting in the cabin is still in danger: despite the stifling-hot climate, the vehicles are not equipped with air conditioning.
Tip: You refer to the hotel staff that they not only brought the car but the driver and checked its number and license.
Jakarta, Indonesia
Since in the 1990's were banned pedicabs, the Indonesian occupation of streets mototaksi. Authorities are completely unable to regulate this miniotrasl. And as a result - drivers are regularly robbed the passengers and themselves suffer from avtougonschikov. Although the driver must wear a helmet and have a spare for the passengers, none of these subtleties are not remembered.
Tip: Take care of your health! Use by four means of transportation!
The fee for a taxi would be fixed.
06/03/2010 - meeting.lv
In Vilnius, plans to introduce a fixed fee for passengers traveling from the International Vilnius airport to the center of the capital.
Thus, the City Council will deal with dishonest drivers, vozyaschimi passengers at higher fares.
This issue was discussed at the meeting held on Friday, the mayor of Vilnius Vilius Navickas and CEO Thomas Vayshvily airport.
Until October last year, taxi services at the airport had provided only one firm Vilnius - Marton taxi. After the expiration of the contract with this firm Mwape invited all the companies offering taxi services in the capital, to serve passengers from the airport. Contracts were signed with three companies - Pigus taxi "," Myarsyalita and Marton taxi.
Now the average cost of taxi services - 6 Liters per kilometer and 9 Liters per landing.
In early February, it was found that two drivers Martono taksi five times higher than the established fees taximeter.
Living in Germany Münster can not only comfortably ride in a taxi, but also sing a favorite song.
06/03/2010 - 1tv.ru
The taxi driver from the German city of Munster combine business with pleasure. At first, he just sang for their passengers, and then decided not to be distracted from the road and set in a karaoke machine. Now all anyone can pass the time, singing a favorite song.
And some passengers is so much that they even asked to take them to work, with songs to get home.
Who can say that for such a serious form of hiding the soul of a DJ? This is probably the only taxi driver in Germany, which includes the passenger first song, and only then - counter.
Nitsametin Kilinkli, a taxi driver: "People have asked me to put a CD or listen to the radio. And one time someone said:" I want to sing! "I thought, why not. I've never heard of a club-karaoke wheels.
Typically, passengers do not realize, in a taxi sit. Outside - the car, like a machine, no inscriptions and decorations. Only when they see the microphones on the seat, understand: something wrong here. Someone, however, hesitate to sing, and someone said: Hey, driver, make me another circle!
Alex Ulrich, passenger transport service: "Class, super, kick-ass contraption!" When we return to the six in the morning, and you pick us, we still do not sing well. "
No contemporary singers in a karaoke cab can not compare in popularity with the old German hit 80. Eternal hit "Gross social product" will give odds to any holders of the Grammy. There is a music library in a taxi and Russian songs.
Marek Zuhe: "As a child I heard the Russian song, I do not remember how exactly is ..." White roses "?..."
"White Rose", "Purple haze", and of course, "Zelenoglazoe taxi" - all of these songs are in the collection of Munster taxi karaoke.
Dima, Zina and Mary, who are studying in Germany, went on a student's party fun, but it turned out - fun in a karaoke cab.
Sometimes the driver is going through. What if tomorrow will be asked not to put the old songs, but something new?
Nitsametin Kilinkli, taxi driver: "The old songs, they, nevertheless, the old. It is necessary that people had an alternative. For example, rap-karaoke for young people." Karaoke taxis can not be distinguished from Russia route. Already waiting: now you will be asked to allocate for travel. By the way, a good idea for drivers of our minibuses: passengers riding the gray morning at work and sing your favorite songs. But who knows, maybe in your town already has a karaoke on wheels?
Want to spend Saturday night at the bar?
06/03/2010 - zman.com
Taxi!
If the night from Friday to Saturday, you going to a bar or an exclusive club, where, among other treats to sell alcohol, call a taxi, and leave your car parked outside the house: in this case, the festivities will be cheaper than if you sit behind the wheel.
1300 fines were discharged traffic police in just one night.
According to Israeli public radio, 50 drivers were on the ground disenfranchised for serious violations of traffic rules, mostly - for exceeding the permissible speed.
40 cars "rejected": taxi drivers can not appear on the road for as long as they do not repair his car.
In the center of the country and in the northern district of nightclubs and pubs 77 drivers sat behind the wheel drunk, but the traffic police were not dozing: to stop the violators and deprived of their rights for 30 days.
Americans love quick and easy three-wheeled taxis.
05/03/2010 - newizv.ru
Snowfalls, passed recently in the eastern part of America, all pretty scared. But there is one category of citizens who were very glad to unusually heavy snow and severe cold. This is a New York taxi drivers. The fact is that in recent times they have appeared quite serious competitors in a trishaw. The new three-wheeled bicycles with a cabin for two passengers is easy to maneuver in dense traffic flow, traffic jams and riding are a convenient means of transportation for a growing number of New Yorkers. A similar pattern and in Boston.
Over the last five years after the first appearance in Boston pedicabs this type of transport has become commonplace for citizens. Owners of tour companies continuously increase their exotic state transport enterprises and expand the boundaries of areas serviced by fast cabbies. Use as a driving force for conventional and low-cost three-wheel bicycle, high cross, and security have made this type of transport is not only popular with tourists, but also hurrying to work Bostonians.
Trishaw allows travelers to leisurely to learn an unfamiliar city and admire the architectural masterpieces and historic monuments, to make stops at shops and cafes. Modern tourists, armed digital camera and camcorder, it is important to make a qualitative snapshot of the memory, moving "with the wind" on the street, and not through the dusty glass of the bus and their heads around the passengers.
In New York, rickshaws transport law amounting to a taxi. Managed cyclists exotic trucks, like any other road transport, must pass an annual inspection. Cyclist on the road the driver is forced to obey all traffic rules, signs and traffic light signals. Owners and drivers of bicycle crews acquire licenses for operation of tourist transport and insurance for themselves and passengers.
In Boston, Boston Pedicab company already tough competition for urban taxis. Ability to bring pedicabs on the phone even during the day, even at night, the instantaneous arrival rickshaws, for example, to the restaurant, the delivery of heavy bags back home, transporting viewers to the evening concerts, film shows and sports matches to private cars that appeared on the distant city parking make this an exotic form of transport more attractive.
Recent and new service Boston pedicabs - the organization of wedding ceremonies and escorts when the cavalcade of bicycle carts with the bride, groom and guests rides around the city center. It enjoys a huge success among young people. It is also important that all cycle-rickshaws - they are students of local universities. Ability to communicate with a young, intelligent and educated student driver from Harvard attracts passengers not less than flexible, and affordable prices visit, where neg.
Students go to work cyclists, because so they can earn decent money for summer vacation, to improve their physical form. Competition among candidates is quite big, and transport companies constantly raise the requirements for future drivers. For example, the candidate should have a good cyclist speak in English, well oriented and know the geography of Boston and its suburbs. The driver must be strong and resilient, while remaining polite and punctual throughout the entire 8 - hour workday. At the entrance exam young man or woman should be able to move on pedicabs loaded with 250-400 pounds at a certain distance within a few hours.
Advertisers, too, lined up to the organizers of the alternate traffic, because traffic flows in the presence of bright bicycle carts with attractive driver attracts hundreds of eyes to her potential customers advertising products.
With regard to New York, the profession of pedicabs in Manhattan has a rare and registered drivers bicycle carts a little more than 200 people. Less in New York only professional cabbies, twenty well-dressed horse carriages are decorated with central avenues and alleys of the park. However, despite the fact that New York's pedicabs major role in the movement of citizens of the city until recently has not played, they suddenly appeared opponents. And seriously - the drivers of the famous yellow taxis. In 2009, the New York taxi drivers to sound the alarm in connection with the fall of their income in a difficult time of crisis. The new three-wheeled bicycles with a cabin for two passengers began using the residents and tourists an unprecedented popularity. They quickly moved through the city, not afraid of traffic jams. And only with the onset of cold weather and snowfall in the demand for rickshaws fell, which is understandable. Taxi drivers triumphed!
All Greek taxi drivers on strike.
02/03/2010 - NEWSru.com
Thirty thousand taxi drivers began a two-day strike on March 2 in Greece, speaking against the financial measures of the government. According to the president of the National Federation of Taxi Drivers Efthimios Liberopoulos, the strike involved nearly 100% of taxi drivers.
In the capital of Greece, a convoy of 400 cars went to the country's parliament and the Ministry of Finance for action, which can block traffic on the main streets of the city.
Greek taxi drivers have already conducted "pre-emptive" strike on February 11 in protest against increasing the gasoline tax, because of which the price of fuel has jumped about 15%, and against the requirements of the Ministry of Finance on the run drivers books.
According Liberopoulos, many car taxi used in three shifts around the clock, so the division of revenues and expenses is impossible. All taxis equipped with meters, which is being paid. However, receipts and checks issued to taxi drivers rarely - only when requested by passengers themselves.
In the absence of opportunities to count income of taxi-drivers, each of them pays the tax office a fixed amount of 16 thousand euros per year. The new demands of the Greek Government intended to replenish the state treasury due to the introduction of new taxes to combat evasion of them, as well as the reduction of salaries.
Public sector workers' union, which opposes the reduction of salaries and bonuses, today announced a new 24-hour strike. This will be the third such event in recent times. As a result of previous large-scale daily strikes on 10 and 24 February, it was interrupted aviation communication in Greece. 8 th and 9 th of March going on strike, and employees of tax inspections, had already made similar protests on February 4.
Latvian police officer moonlighting as a taxi driver.
02/03/2010 - lenta.ru
In the Latvian city of Jelgava during a police raid was stopped by a taxi that has not been time-tested. It later emerged that the driver himself is a member of the patrol police and the taxi driver only moonlight. For the fact that the car did not pass inspection, the taxi driver face a fine of 40 lats (about 76 dollars). The police in connection with the scheduled inspection. Is known, however, that the police (reported that his name Maris), carrying passengers while off duty, so that its main activity underworking taxi did not interfere.
On the streets of Japan operates amphibian taxi.
01/03/2010 - NEWS
In Japan, have found ways to bypass traffic jams. In an experiment on the street fired a taxi amphibian, which can at any time move out from the carriageway and continue along the path. City taxi drivers are already exploring the navigation, but the passengers are getting used to the new mode of transport.
In Osaka, Vehicle type, busily floating down the river, it is no surprise. Taxis are not only riding the roads, but the water did not drown. On land, the machine can be taken as an army SUV. These cars, by the way, this definition fits the best way possible. Outside the roads they travel is excellent, although for him, too bad.
Before going down to the water is checked at the oil. After all, this ship, and a car, so the attention of such a machine requires at least twice. "In the water, the car develops a speed of up to 7 knots. It moves through the rear propeller and the direction is given by turning the front wheels" - explains the cross-country taxi driver Masahiro Nakamura.
For the majority of taxi passengers is still an exotic attraction. Fare, by the way, almost four times more than the land machine. But the impression overflowing.
"I really liked the unusual, even on the roof seating. I wish that all cars can also move through the water. I think it makes sense to begin to equip with such a function even if ambulances and fire," - says the Japanese Eiji Hirano.
Despite the car interior, within the illusion of staying on the ship. For the taxi driver, it is important to know not only the rules of the road, but also possess the skills for navigation.
"When you go on the water main to ensure that the time is not intercepted you control over the management of the car" - said the taxi driver Masahiro Nakamura.
Workload on the roads makes the Japanese to lay alternative routes. It has recently spoken of Osaka taxi drivers, all you need to do - a fair wind, and seven feet under the wheel.
Experience of using all-terrain taxi showed that this type of transport is the future. Soon, these machines will appear in the rivers of Tokyo and other Japanese cities. Although skeptics believe that if this will solve the problem of congestion, then a short time. Apparently, for this they will need not only fly, but fly through the air.
In Mexico, the taxi came to drunk people.
12/10/2009 - Oreanda News
Special services for people who got the normal dose of alcohol injected Mexican authorities. Citizens under the influence of alcohol can now dial the simple figures "5533" on your mobile phone to be "evacuated" from the playground to the house.
Mexican authorities have introduced this measure in order to combat motor vehicle accidents. A large number of them happening in the country due to the fact that the drivers are driving drunk. Often they do not want to get behind the wheel in impermissible state, but they have to do is to get to the house, ITAR-TASS.
Now for the drivers "under the weather" will operate a special taxi. Owners of cars that have "moved the norm" will not only bring home, of course, not free, but also to ensure the safety of the vehicle owner's car, which is unable to control it.
First, the measure of the Mexican authorities aimed at ensuring the safety of youth. That is, young people often sit behind the wheel in Mexico "in any" state, intending to get home. Very often, this conduct led to very unfortunate consequences.
Stockholm bus drivers cause a taxi for passengers.
11.10.2009, TRAVEL.RU
In Stockholm, a new service for passengers of public transport - particularly buses and high-speed tram Roslagstag. The drivers of these types of transport will be able to call a taxi for its passengers.
Service free of charge and is aimed at increasing the level of comfort for passengers who do not want to go from the bus stop on foot - for the arrival of the bus will be waiting there already ordered a taxi. While the innovation is applicable only to the northern suburbs of the capital, and a taxi may be due to a limited number of stops, but there are plans to extend the service throughout the Stockholm region.
British drunks will be distributed to homes on a free taxi.
06/10/2009, Lenta.RU
British drunks will be down to their homes at a special free taxi. As writes The Daily Mail, this idea occurred to the police, the small town of Wotton, located in the county of Norfolk in eastern England. According to the authors of the project, the initiative will be implemented with funds coming into the treasury of the taxpayers.
The meaning of innovation is as follows: in the evenings at weekends taxis will ply on the busy streets of the city, pick up all the drunken pedestrians, and carries them home. Wotton authorities believe that this will significantly reduce the percentage of breaches of public order committed by drunken people of the settlement.
Police Sergeant Lance Odzhborn (Lance Ogbourne), one of the sponsors of the initiative, said that the real opportunity to secure the inhabitants of the town - one of the major pluses of the proposed project. "The adoption of new measures will help us clean up the streets of any suspicious subjects. After drinking, these people tend to just roam the city. They do not call a taxi, and therefore can be dangerous to others", - said the source publication.
Meanwhile, the project found and critics. Thus, many believe that free transportation overdo it with alcohol Britons not only adversely affect the budget Wotton, but will become a propaganda drinking. "Young people can safely go to a bar and drink without worrying about the consequences. They will know that their dovezut to the house, so even free," - complained about City Councilman Wotton, 75-year-old Alf Harvey (Alf Harvey).
Anyway, in the next three months drunken residents Wotton will be able to use the services of a free taxi, which will run all weekend from 23:30 until 02:00 at night. How much money was allocated from the Treasury on the organization of the system deliver a drunken, but not specified.
In that case, if the project succeeds, similar to a taxi will appear in other UK cities.
Woman gives birth in a taxi on the way to hospital.
15.07.2009, NEWSru.co.il
30-year-old woman gave birth in a taxi in the vicinity of interchanges Horashim Road Number 6 (Cross-Israel Highway).
Childbirth has a taxi driver, using instructions dispatch service Magen David Adom on the phone.
Deliveries were successfully girl was born. Employees of an ambulance service Magen David Adom maternal and baby were taken to hospital "Laniado" in Netanya. Both mother and baby are doing well.
Problems with Estonian taxi.
"If you introduce a common fare for mileage, easy to guess which of the currently existing will be selected, - says Oleg Tallinn taxi driver, representing a small firm. - Now, for example, our firm has three different values: day (4.5 crowns per km), night (6 crowns) and the so-called "from pillar" that is, from the taxi (10 kroner). If the city asks the taxi driver question - on what basis it carries more customers at night, the taxi driver may ask the city counter-question. "And with what you have decided that the night is more expensive? Night tariff - there is a major, and in the daytime We carry customers at a discount, - says Oleg. - So with the introduction of a single tariff would deprive the city Tallinners benefits.
China will produce Renault taxi.
PARIS. May 12. VOSTOK-MEDIA - The second-largest carmaker in Europe France's Renault signed an agreement with Chinese automaker Dongfeng Motor Corp. the organization of an assembly joint venture. For Dongfeng joint venture with Renault the fifth in a row. Largest partner Dongfeng 80-ies supports French Citroen, which to date has provided the whole of China for its taxis. At present, joint investments Citroen-Dongfeng in automanufacture reached $ 756 million.
New Volvo in Dubai airport.
Committee on Roads and Transport in Dubai (RTA), has provided for the International Airport of the country thirty new cars Volvo.
Taxi Volvo, equipped with a satellite navigation system and DVD-player, and also very convenient and comfortable for passengers.
Taxi drivers, who are chosen directly RTA, received special training course for drivers, say several
languages and trained in the polite with customers.
Currently in Dubai airport operate 258 taxis, including two vehicles for people with disabilities
opportunities. For women, the passengers who do not want to travel with a male driver, taxi services provide
vehicles whose roofs are painted in pink, drivers of these taxis are also women.