I despise the tv screens in the NYC taxis. You can turn them off but after a few minutes they turn themselves back on. So obnoxious and they wonder why we are all moving to ridesbares. Just needed to bitch.
(never been to NYC)
This is a thing? Geeze. And I thought gas pump TVs were bad enough. Are they all commercials, or is there an actual program on?
TaxiTV. I can see it. Shudder.
eta: I was joking about the name! It’s as bad as I imagined!
It’d be so meta if they were broadcasting, “Cash Cab.”
They should show “Taxi”, that would improve the ride dramatically. Louie & Rev. Jim and Alex and the gang.
I hear ya. Hate 'em.
Also the ones attached to the back of the passenger’s seat that’s in front of you when you’re on a damn plane. Turn them off. They come back on. :mad:
I cover them with one of those in-flight magazines (or a ripped-out segment thereof), twisting the corners and tucking them around the edges of the video monitors.
No, what’s meta is seeing yourself on the news when you’re going back to work at the event site from your hotel. Yes, that’s happened to me before.
Best name/post content evah!
I mean, that costume is quite noticeable. If only you wouldn’t leave those damn webs everywhere…
Yes. They suck. I hate them.
At least you can mute them.
But it’s *soooo *tempting – I could just take whatever hard object I have with me and smash them to pieces… but that would be illegal, of course.
I hate them too. Last trip to NYC was exclusively Uber Black Car. So much better
I would generally call it a decent ride if the worst thing about your NYC taxi experience is the stupid tv.
Perhaps better in terms of ride quality.
But Uber, in cooperation with the New York City Taxi & Limosine Commission, basically fucked yellow cab medallion owners (individual owners, not fleets) so badly that suicide among medallion owners in NYC is a real issue. And Lyft is pretty much the same.
They’re evil. I will *never *ride in an Uber car.
Recently, the New York Times ran an article about how the medallion owners were screwed, and the article blames the lawyers, bankers and investors who inflated the price of medallions and convinced often immigrant drivers to overpay for medallions.
Absolutely, although they couldn’t have done it without the active cooperation of the TLC.
You know who was speculating in taxi medallions? Michael Cohen. Yes, *that *Michael Cohen.
That’s the kind of person we’re talking about.
NYC taxis have only themselves to blame. Terrible drivers, often constantly on the phone. Smelly and dirty vehicles. And, apropos to this thread, TV commercials blaring at you while you ride. If Uber is “evil,” what should we call the NYC Taxi industry?
NYC taxis (by which I assume you mean drivers and individual medallion owners) have only themselves to blame?
Hey, why don’t you educate yourself about the medallion system before you express an opinion?
Glad to see others have strong feelings as well.
I currently sit in LGA, drinking a beer, having taken a yellow cab back (I was in the taxi to the meeting when I wrote my last post)
The ride back not only had the TV, but it was one where the partition meant I had no cold air getting to me. Nothing was coming out of the sad little back vent. So as we sat for an HOUR in NY traffic, I roasted while the driver complained he was too cold.
I’m normally the sort of guy who feels bad for the loss of good jobs (taxi driver) to big, mean technology. But the taxis still, after several years of ride shares, have done NOTHING to improve their product. Screw them.
I only took the taxi because I was in a rush and LGA is set up so that it was much quicker to get to the taxi and my flight was late getting in. Of course, do I learn? NOOOO, when I came out of my meeting and there was a taxi just sitting there, what did I do? Yeah, that.
F- taxis. And F- me for being stupid.
The medallion owners, I assume, are responsible for the terrible condition of their cabs. The divers, I assume, are responsible for their terrible driving and obnoxious behavior. What am I missing?
The part where owner/drivers have been cheated and screwed into negative dollars. Their cars aren’t clean enough for you? Tough to keep a car up to your standards when the owner/driver has to keep it on the road literally 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to, well, not even break even.
You explicitly said “NYC taxis have only themselves to blame.”
You’re wrong. There are a lot of people to blame for the state of NYC taxis, and the owner/drivers are at the very bottom of that list.
Owner/drivers had control over their situation stolen from them by the likes of Michael Cohen.
But hey, smelly immigrants, right?
I haven’t taken a single taxi since my first Uber ride. Evil corporation or not, the price and quality cannot be beaten. I bitched about taxis for years until I found the wonderful Uber. Never again because of exactly the things in this thread. I don’t know how taxis are still in business or why anyone would ever take one except in a dire emergency.
Okay, not*** only*** themselves to blame. (and some are immigrants and some not). It’s not the drivers that are smelly anyway, it’s the car.
I acknowledge it’s a tough way to make a living. Sometimes impossible. Another reason not to mourn the death of the industry. It’s a terrible job that doesn’t pay well and doesn’t provide a service people would choose if they had a choice. Now we have a choice.