GPS Tracking Leads To Possible Striking NY Cabbies
Working over here at WHERE the word GPS is thrown around quite a bit. After all, our companies goal, product and innovation all centers around GPS Widgets for your mobile phones. Today, however, the word GPS is being thrown around in a not-so-positive light, a light that might just leave a whole group of New Yorkers walking to and from work for awhile.
That’s right, New York Cabbies are actually considering striking based on the fact that the Taxi & Limousine Commission wants to make it mandatory to put GPS Tracking devices in their cabs, at their expense. Cab drivers all over the city are complaining that not only can they not afford the expected $3000-$5000 cost to install these systems, but they don’t want to be tracked at all.
The TLC is claiming it won’t use the information to track the drivers whereabouts, speeds, etc. but just be used to better serve the customers, and in the event of leaving things behind in cabs, make it easier to return people their belongings. Add this to the TLC’s desire to switch all cabs to hybrid vehicles and you have one powerful change-a-brewing.
Stay tuned to this one, it could get very interesting. In the meantime, for a more positive spin on GPS, head over to WHERE and check out some widgets!
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At first glance I thought this was going to be about customers of cabs using GPS to see if the cabbie is ripping them off as a result of taking a long route, but didn’t realize it was about the cost of putting them in to the cabs. Of course, that could just be a smokescreen argument for what I was talking about and that is holding them accountable to their fares.
Comment by Jim Turner — July 31, 2007 @ 7:46 pm
I THINK THE CABBIES SHOULD STOP CRYING. AND EAT THIS. it serves the customer better and the way that cabbies drive today its easier to report them. ihate cabbies anyways. if they strike it wont make adiffrence anyways this is thier bread and butter. they need to drive with or with out it.so screw them. HAAAHAAA
Comment by FLAVIOS — September 5, 2007 @ 4:05 pm
[…] NYC Cabbies Re-Strike Over GPS by Tyler Knott GregsonI’ve mentioned it more than once here, the NYC Cabbies are NOT happy about having GPS units installed in their cabs, they’ve striked once, been overruled, and now, they are striking again. Clearly unhappy. Clearly. […]
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