Sentences with phrase «like taxi cabs»

An old - fashioned industry like taxi cabs can get swept away overnight.

Like the taxi cab driver watching his airport business flock to Uber and Lyft, lawyers may soon be wondering what happened, and how it happened so fast.

Not exact matches

To James Beshara and Khaled Hussein, founders of San Francisco - based Crowdtilt, the future looks something like this: A Mumbai taxi driver sitting in a queue at the airport dreams of owning his own cab.

Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp, like old pals, were complaining about the many crappy things we all have to deal with in life, including finding a cab when we're packed with luggage under the rain and no taxi seems to pass by.

Wickershams Conscience, the taxi cab fallacy... Google it if you like.

Shaped like the iconic New York City taxi cab, this baby pillow is perfect in any nursery...

Midwifery advocates often cite what they see as the biggest irony of anti-midwife laws like the one in Missouri: that a good Samaritan who helps a woman deliver her baby on the side of a road or in a taxi cab is not subject to prosecution, but that a trained midwife who helps a woman carefully plan her out - of - hospital birth is.

Taxi cabs, for - hire and ride - sharing vehicles like Uber and Lyft would be charged between $ 2 and $ 5 per ride, while trucks and commercial vehicles would be charged $ 25.34, according to the proposal.

Later this month, the Taxi and Limousine Commission will unveil a pilot program allowing some yellow and green cab drivers to use surge pricing and to offer up - front cost estimates, like their counterparts Uber and Lyft already can.

Ride - hailing apps like Uber and Lyft have been so disruptive to New York City's taxi industry, they are causing some lenders to fail, including three New York credit unions that specialize in loaning money against taxi cab medallions.

The taxi industry is pushing back, saying in a statement that Uber and Lyft drivers on Long Island and upstate should undergo fingerprint background checks, just like regular taxi cab drivers.

Queens Rep. Joseph Crowley wants de Blasio to step in to help the struggling yellow taxi industry and its lenders, saying new app - based car services like Uber have led to a big drop in value of the yellow cab medallions.

«I've heard from too many people who feel like there is not enough high quality taxi cab, affordable service, in this community,» Miner said.

«Skin damage is like a meter in a taxi cab,» says Darrell Rigel, MD, an American Academy of Dermatology board - certified dermatologist and clinical professor of dermatology at New York University.

Jafar Panahi's Taxi provides a window into contemporary life in Iran through this terrific made - to - look - like non-fiction narrative film set entirely inside Panahi's cab over the course of a single day.

The film focuses greatly on Paula's desire for Roger's committed affection, but like the Parisian taxi cabs, Roger is not interested only in her.

Looking somewhat like a plastic surgery treatment gone wrong, Nissan says the new face of its «Taxi for London» is meant to mimic the appearance of the city's classic black cabs.

The Hyundai Xcent taxi variant will come void of any features and get cab specific changes like only rear power windows, no central locking and different seat upholstery.

He saw them in the streets, always from behind, or turning a corner, his father sitting in the bright yellow taxi next to his, shifting in his seat as the cab screeched away in the opposite direction, his mother — dead six months now, though it felt like one long night — hurrying along the sidewalk on a Sunday morning, turning into a store just when Ben had come close enough to see her face.

Crazy Taxi, meanwhile, provides the kind of wild arcade - powered fun that felt perfectly at home on the Dreamcast: the game's title is as apt as can be, as the player pilots a taxi cab around a fully - realized city modeled after San Francisco, complete with plenty of steep hills to send your taxi airborn as you cart terrified passengers to their destination (or wherever you feel like taking thTaxi, meanwhile, provides the kind of wild arcade - powered fun that felt perfectly at home on the Dreamcast: the game's title is as apt as can be, as the player pilots a taxi cab around a fully - realized city modeled after San Francisco, complete with plenty of steep hills to send your taxi airborn as you cart terrified passengers to their destination (or wherever you feel like taking thtaxi cab around a fully - realized city modeled after San Francisco, complete with plenty of steep hills to send your taxi airborn as you cart terrified passengers to their destination (or wherever you feel like taking thtaxi airborn as you cart terrified passengers to their destination (or wherever you feel like taking them).

The works incorporate urban objects such as concrete slabs, taxi cab fragments, and garbage cans and are created using Greco - Roman techniques; this juxtaposition suggests parallels between the steady decay of contemporary cultural capitals like New York, with those now extinct, such as Rome.

Like my previous one on taxi - cab and jet emissions, this post was born out of some water - cooler speculation a few weeks back.

In a major metropolitan city like Boston, taxi cabs are one of the most common ways that people travel.

Taxi cabs» owners are required to carry liability insurance just like other owner in Massachusetts.

Holman said it best in his keynote: «If you as lawyers don't figure out how to better use technology, Silicon Valley will, and will just go around you like Uber did with taxi cab industry.

Echoing a familiar complaint expressed by cab drivers in the U.S., old South African taxi drivers like Peter Moloi accuse Uber of getting preferential treatment from the authorities.

There are various driver job profiles like bus driver, van driver, cab driver, taxi driver etc..

-LCB- I like to call it Dirty Taxi Cab Yellow. -RCB-