NYC Taxi News' Abe Mittleman, Carolyn Protz, special guest Nancy Reynoso (livery industry expert) & AutoMarketplace founder Dawood Mian discuss a wide range of NYC FHV industry topics
FHV's can't do literal street hails but they have absolutely turned that exclusive right of yellows into something which can easily be circumvented by tapping an app on the street. Those are converted and stolen street hails and it's done all day every day. Don't really care that 'x' number of street hails aren't accessible to FHV's. Go wait by the Columbus Circle taxi line. Uber after Uber picks up next to the line. They can't technically wait on the line, they just have their own virtual line. Same thing.
FHV's can't do literal street hails but they have absolutely turned that exclusive right of yellows into something which can easily be circumvented by tapping an app on the street. Those are converted and stolen street hails and it's done all day every day. Don't really care that 'x' number of street hails aren't accessible to FHV's. Go wait by the Columbus Circle taxi line. Uber after Uber picks up next to the line. They can't technically wait on the line, they just have their own virtual line. Same thing.
The question should be how many app cars do we need?, there is so much bias in that headline
Why did you turn the phrase street hail into hand hail?
The yellows paid for the rights to street hails. No one else did