Taxi News

• Married Newcastle taxi driver, 61, caught in police sting over arranging to pay for sex with child
  
  Mohammed Miah responded by phone to an online advert on Vivastreet, that had been covertly placed by undercover police, in January last year.
  Daily Mail.  Friday, 21 Jan 2022.
• Channel migrants: MPs criticise use of navy to tackle English Channel crossings
  
  A former minister says the navy would just be helping Border Force be a "more efficient taxi service".
  BBC News.  Tuesday, 18 Jan 2022.
• Remote driving trial launches in Milton Keynes: ROBERT HARDMAN asks will it kill off our cabbies?
  
  ROBERT HARDMAN: Here, in a huge Milton Keynes car park, I am sitting in a prototype of something which could be about to do to Uber and its ilk what Uber did to the taxi trade.
  Daily Mail.  Thursday, 13 Jan 2022.
• Flagging Down A Roaming AI Self-Driving Car Robo-Taxi Might Not Be In The Cards
  
  Flagging down a taxi or cab is still something done today, and the question arises whether AI-based self-driving car robo-taxis will do the same.
  Forbes.  Sunday, 9 Jan 2022.
• Vegas Loop's Boring Company tunnel deploys 70 Tesla - we tried it out at CES 2022
  
  Getting around CES - the world's largest technology show - in Las Vegas is usually a drag. There are taxi lines for days, monorail crushes in a bid to
  Pocket Lint.  Friday, 7 Jan 2022.
• Chicago shooting: Man found shot to death in taxi on South Side
  
  A 65-year-old man was found shot to death inside of a taxi on the South Side Tuesday night, Chicago police said.
  ABC News.  Thursday, 6 Jan 2022.
• SEC Charges Taxi Lending Giant Medallion Financial For Alleged Fraud
  
  Medallion contends the charges are "unfounded"
  Daily Caller.  Wednesday, 29 Dec 2021.
• Waymo To Use Chinese Geely Robotaxi Body. This Should Send Shivers Into Western OEMs
  
  Waymo's choice of a Chinese car should be a major wake-up call for western OEMs of the greatest threat to their business to ever come along.
  Forbes.  Tuesday, 28 Dec 2021.
• Taliban says women should not make long taxi journeys without male chaperone
  
  The Taliban has said women in Afghanistan should not be offered long distance taxi services unless they are accompanied by a male chaperone.
  Sky News.  Monday, 27 Dec 2021.
• NHL brings back taxi squads as COVID resurgence threatens season
  
  The goal of the changes is to keep the NHL season going after 67 games already have been postponed for coronavirus-related reasons.
  CBS News.  Sunday, 26 Dec 2021.
• NHL implementing taxi squads, other measures
  
  Each NHL team will be allowed to have a taxi squad of up to six players and to make emergency recalls from the minors if COVID-19 absences would cause any team to play without a full lineup.
  ESPN.  Sunday, 26 Dec 2021.
• This electric Ford Mustang Mach-E is for hacks
  
  Startup Gravity has launched the first Ford Mustang Mach-E in the NYC Taxi fleet with passenger entertainment system.
  Fox News.  Thursday, 23 Dec 2021.
• Tesla Model 3: Paris' largest taxi firm suspends cars after fatal crash
  
  One person died and 20 were hurt after a cabbie lost control of their Tesla Model 3 last weekend.
  BBC News.  Wednesday, 15 Dec 2021.
• Tesla accident leaves one dead and 20 injured in Paris, prompting taxi firm to suspend use of model
  
  A taxi firm in Paris has suspended the use of Tesla Model 3 cars in its fleet after one of the vehicles was involved in an accident which killed one person and injured 20 others.
  Sky News.  Wednesday, 15 Dec 2021.
• Russia's Vladimir Putin reveals he moonlighted as a taxi driver after Soviet Union collapse
  
  Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that he resorted to moonlighting as a taxi driver, following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
  CNBC.  Monday, 13 Dec 2021.

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