Sentences with phrase «traditional taxi drivers»

Uber maintained that tips weren't necessary because the drivers made around $ 6 more per hour than traditional taxi drivers.

Critics have also raised concerns about the safety of Uber, as a number of incidents with customers revealed that drivers weren't being subjected to as extensive background checks as are traditional taxi drivers.

Traditional taxi drivers in two of Ghana's robust economic capitals, Accra and Tamale, capital of the Northern Region, face an identical challenge, which may soon see them driven into extinction.

If the software allows [drivers] to take up driving jobs with less downtime, it should make them more productive than traditional taxi drivers because the access has improved.

Not exact matches

I was taking a traditional taxi the other day, and the driver was weaving around and honking, trying to make stuff happen.

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.

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.

Ride - sharing companies can currently operate in New York City under an arrangement with the city's powerful regulator, the Taxi & Limousine Commission, that treats them like traditional for - hire car companies rather than full ride - sharing platforms built in part on casual drivers.

They are in New York City, which is Uber's biggest U.S. market and is the rare municipality that has the requisite financial and regulatory muscle to force Uber and Lyft to operate as a traditional for - hire car service, complete with the Taxi & Limousine Commission - mandated driver fingerprinting.

Traditional licensed taxi drivers in major cities have been the most vocal opponents of expanded operating rights for the ride - sharing companies, and now they could benefit from new technology that will put them on more even competitive footing.

The project, funded by the Law Foundation of Ontario, will focus on training people who are not traditional conduits for legal information but who in fact might have the greatest access to trafficked people — taxi drivers, hair and nail salon staff, and restaurant and hotel workers.

As long as traditional metered - taxi drivers feel their livelihood and their routes are being encroached on, they will refuse to share their territory — and may resort to any means necessary to maintain them — as evidenced in Paris and Johannesburg.

With the number of people using Uber to book taxis in South Africa rising sharply, drivers of the app - based taxi firm, have been encountering increased wrath from Johannesburg's established and notoriously tough traditional metered taxi drivers.

That taxi service, which has been running for decades, is what the traditional metered - drivers are trying to preserve — minus competition from Uber.

Many of Uber's opponents in the UK insist that the company's business model is exploitative in nature and only allows it to beat its competitors by not providing its drivers with fair benefits, which is a notion that the tech giant repeatedly denied, insisting that it's not a traditional taxi service.