Sentences with phrase «taxi drivers do»

The passenger can choose to get down of the taxi at any time, so the 3rd case is easily avoidable, if the taxi driver does not allow the passenger to get down then the passenger is basically kidnapped, which is illegal anyway.

The area was full of studios, experimental galleries, and bookshops — even taxi drivers didn't know the place existed.

Not exact matches

If you're going to be doing driving of any kind, whether it's transporting horses or driving a taxi or getting behind the wheel of an 18 - wheeler, it all starts with a valid driver's license, preferably in the state in which you plan to conduct business.

At least in the case of ridesharing companies, these background checks don't always meet the rigor of checks required for taxi drivers in certain areas.

Though Judge Chen didn't appear to fully buy into the argument, it does stay in line with Uber's long - standing claims that it's not a taxi company, merely a «technology platform» enabling drivers and passengers to connect.

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.

Mexico City taxi drivers snarled traffic in a massive anti-Uber protest in May, complaining that app operators do not have to pay the huge fees that cabs are charged by the government.

It did have a short - lived benefit in January when more than 200,000 people deleted their Uber accounts, because many unfairly accused the company of attempting to profit off the backs of taxi drivers protesting President Donald Trump's travel ban.

Do the taxi drivers benefit from this deal?

When I get into taxi I do not ask what church taxi driver goes to and what are his / her views on abortion.

In a study of his earlier pictures, Kolker notes that «Scorsese is interested in the psychological manifestations of individuals who are representative either of a class or of a certain ideological grouping; he is concerned with their relationship to each other or to an antagonistic environment... [and finally] there is no triumph for his characters» (A Cinema of Loneliness [Oxford University Press, 19881, p. 162) The Jesus of the Last Temptation fits this pattern (as do Travis Bickel in Taxi Driver, Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull and Paul Hackett in After Hours) By eschewing any reference to a resurrection — and, in an interesting theological note, allowing Paul to suggest that his preaching of the risen Christ is more important than the Jesus of history — Scorsese presents the crucifixion as the final willful act of a man driven by a God who makes strange demands on his followers.

Lisa did embroidery and Daniel worked as a taxi driver.

It didn't take long for news of the creation to spread — taxi drivers came to Olivieri demanding their own steak sandwiches.

Leptin, for example, I imagine it like a little taxi driver that goes through your body and tells your body what fuel it has, what fuel it doesn't.

They may be a complex, flawed, divided little archipelago, but for now at least self - schadenfreude really does keep Essex stockbrokers, Antrim cleaners and Lancashire taxi drivers together.

Usually F1 taxi lifts involve drivers sitting on the sidepods or the airbox, but where do you sit if the car doesn't have sidepods, and perching on the airbox would just be... painful?

Because I knew we wanted to do day trips by taxi, I brought our car seats (and later booster for my daughter) and then arranged either through the front desk or our tour rep for an English - speaking driver with rear belts.

If you buy them some small toy cars which they could pretend they are car racers or taxi drivers, they don't move that much since the toy is small.

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.

yy: both behaved properly, the guilt must be in some external agent, like another driver doing something wrong, in this case the laws to apply are the general ones, no specific case for the taxi.

App - based drivers NY1 spoke with, along with yellow taxi drivers who are already struggling to compete, said they don't think it's a plan that will work.

«I'm not going to defend drivers, taxi drivers, who are doing what they are not supposed to be doing.»

Uber and Lyft, unlike taxis, do not typically provide their drivers with workers» compensation since its drivers are considered independent contractors.

A sweltering heat wave did little to tamp the enthusiasm of yellow taxi drivers and their backers, this past Mon., July 20th.

«We want Uber to do the same thing that we do,» said taxi driver Mario Foso, who migrated to the U.S. from El Salvador 37 years ago and has been driving a taxi ever since.

Cab company owners say if local municipalities can not regulate ride - hailing as they do the taxi industry, the state law should at least have requirements that DMV conduct driver background checks, including fingerprinting.

They also say New York should mandate fingerprint checks, as local governments do for taxi drivers.

«So Mr. Vice President, today I announce that I will propose to the New York state legislature not just $ 15 for fast - food workers, because a fast - food worker deserves $ 15 an hour, construction workers deserve $ 15 an hour, and home healthcare aides deserve $ 15 an hour, and taxi - cab drivers deserve $ 15 an hour, and every working man and woman in the State of New York deserves $ 15 an hour as a minimum wage - and we are not going to stop until we get it done!»

When it does rain, the capital city of Dakar empties out as tailors and taxi drivers, bureaucrats and teachers head to their villages to plant.

They don't know how to access information about health and the environment,» said Ayed, 41, an Argentina - born medical interpreter who lives in subsidized housing with her husband, a taxi driver from Algeria.

Not only did the kits cut back emissions, but they saved taxi drivers money and enticed them to get on board.

How does he treat waiters, taxi drivers, and other strangers (not just pretty women, or you — since he's obviously trying to impress you)?

Race gags continue with the return of taxi driver Dopinder (Karan Soni) in a bigger role, and an oddly - constructed character called Black Tom, which doesn't really work.

Drive is, in other words, Taxi Driver if Mann had made it in the eighties, a meticulous character study done in long, drawn - out takes and extended silences punctuated now and again by extreme violence.

One of his earliest produced works, Taxi Driver was heavily influenced by Bresson's Pickpocket (1959), and perhaps it was Scorsese who did not hesitate to draw out the spiritual side of Schrader's script, as well as on the subsequent three scripts.

But then again, the book did the same for Taxi Driver, so that did not deter me.

Along the way, we're privy to countless funny and touching moments with the characters who populate their world, from a closeted taxi driver to an aging Cherokee who doesn't like his name to an outraged Armenian mother - in - law.

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There are many great Scorsese films, but my favorite has to be between Taxi Driver & Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore.

But given that it was one of The A.V. Club's favorite films of the festival, here's hoping that Ramsay doesn't muck much with her fledgling neo-noir, which plays a bit like watching Taxi Driver through the haze of a really intense fever.

What's seldom observed is that films like Taxi Driver and The Godfather don't look the way they do without pioneering pictures like The Wild Bunch first understanding how colour could be used in noir to glorious, nasty effect.4 The Wild Bunch does it well enough that it was threatened with an NC - 17 rating upon its re-release twenty - five years later in 1994.

My biggest heros in this art are Bernard Herrmann («Psycho», «Taxi Driver», «Citizen Kane», «Vertigo») and Jerry Goldsmith («The Omen», «Poltergeist», «Basic Instinct»,» Papillon»), both of whom were pioneers in understanding the psychology of film and communicating drama through music, and I'm doing my best to follow in their example, and try to be one of the more considerate film composers out there... so, I was anxious to hear back if they agreed I hit the bullseye, blind.

Rocky (1976) Don't hate the movie that beat «Taxi Driver» for the Best Picture Oscar.

Here, he gets a great opportunity to do that, as he tells the story of five taxi drivers working different night shifts around the world.

Like Vietnam War veteran Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) trying to make sense of America in the late 1970s in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976) Freddie is similarly childlike, emerging into a world that is recognisable to him, but doesn't fully make sense.

First Reformed: Written and directed by Paul Schrader (script - writer on Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver), this quiet movie becomes Dostoevsky - intense as a small - town chaplain (Ethan Hawke, going into darker territory than he's ever done before) wrestles with questions of conscience that prove literally explosive.

Filmmaker Martin Scorsese does a superb job of immediately luring the viewer into the proceedings, as Taxi Driver, which kicks off with an engrossing job interview sequence between Travis and a gruff personnel officer (Joe Spinell), boasts a fairly mesmerizing opening stretch that's heightened by De Niro's commanding performance and Scorsese's inventive, eye - catching visuals.

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Made at a time when the world was skeptical and the powers that be were deemed untrustworthy, Taxi Driver resonates today as much as it did upon its initial release.

He did this, iconically, with his original screenplay for Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver and as a director himself in 2002's Auto Focus, an unsettling descent into porn and career dislocation.