Sentences with phrase «from taxi driver»

Taylor - Wood puts a strong focus on the individual person, while Gordon is usually inspired by well - known film classics, and in the exhibition Robert de Niro's film figure from Taxi Driver reappears in an unexpected way.

It seems that many people simply feel they are getting ripped off anyways from a taxi driver so they do not tip.

The Wolf of Wall Street is directed by legendary Oscar winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese, of everything from Taxi Driver to Raging Bull to Cape Fear to Goodfellas to Casino to Aviator to Departed to Shutter Island and Hugo recently.

Harrelson takes an appealing approach to his oft - overmatched but rather able protagonist, rendering him an innocent simpleton with convictions not all that different from Taxi Driver's Travis Bickle.

I've got posters from Taxi Driver, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Double Indemnity on my walls.

It's same as demanding from taxi driver to get you to airport asap, and then yell at him for speeding.

It leads to a more collaborative and less hierarchical society, since a CEO in civilian life may end up taking orders from a taxi driver in the service, as well as future business partnerships.

Many of the departures have been blamed on the company's current PR mess, which began in January with the #DeleteUber boycott over accusations that the company tried to profit from a taxi driver strike against President Trump's immigration ban.

In January, a #DeleteUber boycott erupted on Twitter after some users accused the tech company of trying to profit from a taxi driver protest against President Donald Trump's immigration ban.

Customers accuse the ride sharing service of attempting to profit from a taxi driver work stoppage.

The inducements from both sides are stirring resentment from taxi drivers, similar to what Uber has faced in other countries.

In late May, Uber said it had created more than 60,000 jobs in China over the past month, with the spread of its service spurring protests from some taxi drivers.

Mexico City has imposed rules and fees for ride - sharing companies Uber and Cabify, following an uproar from taxi drivers.

Stepping out into the hot and humid Delhi night, everything looked the same but there was certainly a sense of change in the air: everyone from taxi drivers, to business people and politicians seem to feel a new confidence that India can now move forward.

Stepping out into the hot and humid Delhi night, everything looked the same but there was certainly a sense of change in the air: everyone from taxi drivers, to business people and politicians seem to feel a new confidence...

Despite extensive lobbying by Uber, there's been push back from taxi drivers.

While on our honeymoon in the Bahamas we wanted to get a taste for the local flavor and everyone we asked — from taxi drivers...

That the script leaves so much unexplained works to its benefit in the final scenes, as it's a given that everyone from taxi drivers, store owners and news venders to beat cops and police patrol cars are given photos of the mob fugitives and that all of them are reporting directly to the mob.

Not exact matches

That said, the real muscle behind the pushback stems from disenfranchised cab operators, who must comply with a complex web of regulations and shell out for insurance, vehicle maintenance and exorbitant licence fees: In Montreal, cab drivers pay around $ 200,000 for a taxi medallion.

Its profits and stock took a hit in 2016 and 2017, due to write - offs from a poorly timed earlier bet: Signature had become a major financier of permits for New York taxi drivers, just in time for the Uber era.

Uber drivers, for instance, have been shown to pick up riders in the whiter areas of DC more regularly — though to their credit, Uber drivers have also been picking up the slack left over from racist taxi drivers in what may or may not be a sincere social marketing ploy.

We write with the souls of thousands of lives saved, the lives of millions of jobs created liberating multitudes of drivers from the shackles of servitude to iniquitous taxi cartels of corrupt cabals that choked cities with their pollution of air and morals.

London's transport regulator on Friday stripped Uber of its license to operate from the end of the month, affecting over 40,000 drivers in a huge blow to the taxi app.

* CEO Roberts learned «a lot» from London taxi driver (Rewrites with Comcast strategy, background on Brian Roberts)

Critics swiftly accused the ridesharing company of attempting to undermine or profit from a work stoppage by taxi drivers that had been called by the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, an AFL - CIO affiliate that represents many immigrants, and whose work has been largely focused on stopping the encroachment of ride - hailing companies like Utaxi drivers that had been called by the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, an AFL - CIO affiliate that represents many immigrants, and whose work has been largely focused on stopping the encroachment of ride - hailing companies like UTaxi Workers Alliance, an AFL - CIO affiliate that represents many immigrants, and whose work has been largely focused on stopping the encroachment of ride - hailing companies like Uber.

The 37 - page letter describes how Uber hired people to spy on executives of overseas rivals, used undercover agents to impersonate taxi drivers, and scraped competitors» information from the Internet.

Neither of those convictions would have kept the driver from working for Uber since the company only bans drivers for felonies that have taken place within the past seven years, a stricter criteria than the one used to grant a taxi license in the state of Illinois.

The law followed now - familiar protests from traditional taxi firms, furious at the competition posed by services such as Uber, which do not adhere to the same licensing standards and can offer lower prices by having drivers bear the costs of their vehicles.

«They're beating the cars with metal bats,» the singer Courtney Love posted on Twitter from an Uber car in Paris at a time of clashes between the company and taxi drivers in 2015.

The embattled Uber founder decided to step down from President Donald Trump's business advisory board mere minutes before the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, a union that claims to represent 50,000 drivers in New York, was scheduled to protest the ride - hailing startup at the company's driver office in Long Island City, New York.

Official taxis in Beijing from inside a car driven by an Uber driver.

As the Country Head of Singapore for Grab, Lim took Grab from being unheard of a few years ago, to having more drivers on the platform than all of Singapore's taxi companies combined.

Fed up with traditional taxis, city dwellers are tapping their smartphones to hitch rides from strangers using mobile apps that allow riders and drivers to find each other.

Do the taxi drivers benefit from this deal?

GrabTaxi, however, functions as a third - party app for booking taxi rides, allowing riders to connect with taxi drivers from various companies while operating within local taxi regulations.

«Our congregants come from all over the world and from every walk of life, from congressmen to taxi drivers,» Rauf said earlier this month in a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations.

When a New York taxi driver learned she was from Japan, he said: «You folks had better all repent over there.

«We began by discussing the old Times Square depicted in great movies like Midnight Cowboy and Taxi Driver from the 70's, a time when NYC was grittier, sassier, and creatively exploding.

Most Vietnamese were surprised, too, and their reactions ranged from the glee of children let out of school early to watch to the disgust of taxi and truck drivers for whom the Tour was only foolish interference with their work.

«Tottenham will rebound from attempting to sign Samuel Eto'o by moving to bring Thierry Henry to White Hart Lane, according to a Spanish taxi driver that transported Juande Ramos in Barcelona.»

Brodie never recovered from the collision with the dog and he later became a London taxi driver.

I shied away from package tours because we found it easier to ask around and find a taxi or driver willing to take us around at our own pace, with our own car seat installed in the car.

On the safety front, we didn't take car seats, and found (from our experiences in taxis without the kids) that the taxi drivers seemed to drive much more carefully when we had the kids in the back with us.

The driver rammed his taxi - cab into a motor bike that was conveying two suspects away from a robbery scene where they had shot a female employee of Koala Supermarket, who was believed to be carrying money to the bank.

nn: there was an accident, and the taxi driver is guilty, the passenger may be blamed for it, but it is impossible to tell the difference from the previous case (no witnesses).

«New Yorkers and visitors from around the world depend on our city's taxi drivers to get around the city,» said City Council Speaker Christine Quinn.

Attendees at a press conference last week at the Haverstraw Village Hall, many of them taxi and livery drivers, were not happy about the future possibility of needing two permits, one from the county and one from Spring Valley.

In that sense, therefore, the service enables merchants like shops, restaurants, bars, food sellers, taxi / trotro drivers among others to accept payment from mobile phones, cards etc without having to use a point of sale (POS) device

A proposal to improve safety by capping the number of hours that professional drivers can be on the road has drawn sharp criticism from NYC taxi - industry members.

At a roundtable talk with cab industry officials and state Assembly lawmakers in Manhattan today, Uber faced pushback from its taxi and livery car competition over a bill they argue would allow less stringent driver background checks, rider safety standards and insurance coverage than NYC requires for the app's drivers.