Cabspotting – Cab Tracker
Way cool. Obviously the biggest use of cabs is to get from the airport to the financial district and back. In San Francisco, that means to the upper right quadrant of the city map.
Categorised as: Geekery
Way cool. Obviously the biggest use of cabs is to get from the airport to the financial district and back. In San Francisco, that means to the upper right quadrant of the city map.
Categorised as: Geekery
Cool to watch it (like that PlaneSpotting thing you posted from Google Sightseeing a while back)…
….but maybe not so cool to work it.
NYC Taxi Workers’ Alliance is preparing an early Sept. strike against a mandatory GPS system (basically because it will help owners keep tighter control over drivers, in a job that’s already a ‘sweatshop on wheels’). Phila. cabbied did a similar strike last year. Here are some interesting links:
http://blog.aflcio.org/2007/07/26/new-york-taxi-drivers-oppose-constant-gps-monitoring/
http://www.nytwa.org/stopgps.html#details
http://www.phillyimc.org/en/2006/05/23054.shtml