Taxi
Uganda's 'taxi divas' rise from COVID-19's economic gloom
Then it was another woman's turn in the exercise to prepare drivers for Uganda's new all-female ride-hailing service, Diva Taxi. The taxi service, dreamed up by a local woman who lost her logistics job at the start of the coronavirus outbreak, was launched in June and has recruited over 70 drivers. It's uncommon to find women taxi drivers in Uganda, a socially conservative East African country where most women labor on farms or pursue work in the informal sector.
In ride-hail boom, New York livery cabs feel squeezed and forgotten
As a livery cab driver in the Bronx for more than a decade, Orlando Lantigua knows some of his customers well. In the outer boroughs and low-income New York neighborhoods — where yellow cabs rarely go and public transportation is sometimes sparse — residents who lack smart phones or credit cards have relied on livery cabs for generations. More than 100 livery cab bases have closed their doors since 2015, when ride-hailing apps like Uber and Lyft began to provide a large number of trips, cuttin
Uber sues New York City over cruising and licensing caps
Uber Technologies Inc sued New York City on Friday, seeking to void a new rule limiting how much time its drivers can spend cruising streets in busy areas of Manhattan without passengers, saying it threatens to undermine the company's ride-sharing model. In a filing in New York state court in Manhattan, Uber also sought to void a rule banning the issuance of new licenses to for-hire vehicles through August 2020.
Junkyard Gem: 350,000-mile ex-taxi 1990 Chevrolet Caprice
A former taxicab 1990 Chevrolet Caprice sedan, found in a Colorado self-service wrecking yard with 350,664 miles.
The Bubble water car skims above waves and traffic
Flying water car. The Bubble is a 100 percent electric water taxi created by the French company SeaBubbles. The goal is to lower pollution and provide relief from heavy traffic on busy city streets.
Uber is a taxi service, EU court says in landmark ruling
Uber had argued that it was merely an app.
Waymo’s driverless taxi service will open to the public soon
There won't be a human driver behind the wheel. At all.
London’s range-extended electric cab gets trial run at Goodwood
London Taxi Co. shows off a prototype of an electric TX5 with a range extender at UK's Goodwood Festival of Speed.
Cash Cab gets a reboot on the Discovery Channel
The show is being updated for a modern audience.
Beijing looks to replace entire taxi fleet with electric vehicles
Beijing, taxi companies would have to come up with about $1.3 billion to replace gas-powered cabs with electric vehicles.
Dubai hopes to launch self-flying drone taxi service this summer
Why have self-driving cars, when you can have self-flying cars?
The Taxi Cocktail took us for a ride
The taxi is in decline, but the Taxi Cocktail never goes out of style.
MIT research says carpooling services could replace most NYC cabs
Fewer vehicles would be more efficient, MIT argues.