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New Orleans Gets Vending Machine-Equipped Taxis

Occasionally, you’ll luck out and climb into a taxi cab with such amenities as free tissues, discarded newspapers or all the tourist pamphlets you can carry. But if you find yourself in New Orleans, you might end up in one of the 250 vehicles in the Orleans Carriage Cab fleet that now feature soda-dispensing vending machines.

19 October 2012

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Sydney Travel Gets Classy As Uber Launches In Australia

There are a swathe of apps you can use around the country to order a cab to wherever you want to go. The problem with those is that once you get in, it’s still the same, old taxi experience. Transport start-up, Uber, launched the US last year, and the concept is perfect: order a private, luxury car to where you are via an app, relax on your journey, and get out knowing that the journey has already been charged to your credit card. Sounds awesome, right? Well the good news here is that Uber has just opened for business in Australia.

26 February 2012

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Jump The Taxi Queue? There’s An App For That

Ingogo, a mobile app that lets you hail cabs and monitor their location via GPS, has proved popular among Sydneysiders, according to a story published today on SMH. It’s also been painted as potentially illegal, circumventing traditional booking methods via websites and phone and, as expected, has become a source of consternation for the industry’s peak body, the NSW Taxi Council.

9 December 2011

Science

Even If You’re Old You Can Learn New Tricks With Really Freaking Hard Work

London is a crazy mixed-up city, navigation-wise. It’s so hard find your way around that when taxi-drivers learn to, they say they’ve Acquired The Knowledge. And now scientists say The Knowledge actually changes drivers’ brains.

4 May 2011

Cars

This Is The New New York City Taxi

The city of New York will choose Nissan as the supplier for the next generation of taxi cabs, giving the Japanese automaker an exclusive 10-year contract for the city’s fleet of 13,200 yellow people haulers.

7 February 2011

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Swan Taxis App For iOS Lets Perth Residents Track Their Taxi In Real Time

Apps for booking taxis are nothing new, but the new iOS app for Perth-based Swan Taxis introduces the kind of features that remind you just how awesome smartphones are. The free app lets you track your cab in real time, plus estimate your fare before you even place your booking.

25 January 2011

News

How Did This Woman Survive A 23-Floor Jump?

Pure luck, that’s how. She decided to kill herself today, jumping from the 23rd floor of the Hotel Panamericano in Buenos Aires. Fortunately, the taxi in where she landed wasn’t too hard and she survived. Injured but survived.

17 January 2011

Cars

Taxi Of Tomorrow Design Contest Results In Elaborate Cycling Death Trap

Drivers need to be better about seeing cyclists and sharing the road, and vice versa. This is undeniable. The Tunnel Taxi, however, is not the solution to this problem.

20 October 2010

software

iAppalooza Travel: Taxi Pro

Getting a cab in Sydney is a hit and miss affair – both in finding a free cab and getting a driver who doesn’t treat Ray Hadley like the messiah. That’s why we use Taxi Pro to book cabs on the odd occasion we have to jump into a cab.

1 October 2010

New York City Taxis Updating Their Displays To Look Like iMacs

Taxi-top displays, those triangular advertisements on top of NYC cabs, are getting a facelift. And even though it looks like the base of an iMac is now attached to the roof, I think it looks good. Or at least better.

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