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1970 Checker Aerobus Spent Years in a Junkyard, Now It's a Fancy Land Yacht
1970 Checker Aerobus Spent Years in a Junkyard, Now It's a Fancy Land Yacht

21 Mar 2022, 20:02 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / This one-of-a-king limo is a Checker Aerobus with a Marathon rear end. And it's ready to host parties and provide transportation in style

 
A Quick Look at How Taxis Evolved Through Time, From Ancient Rome to Uber
A Quick Look at How Taxis Evolved Through Time, From Ancient Rome to Uber

25 Aug 2015, 14:21 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Ever wondered how the concept of carrying people around town evolved over the years? Well, now you can get a basic idea thanks to a new paper

 
Uber Wants to Improve Its Service's Safety with a Google Street View-Like Feature
Uber Wants to Improve Its Service's Safety with a Google Street View-Like Feature

23 Feb 2015, 14:26 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / After a rape scandal brought a negative image to Uber's taxi app last year, in India, Uber is now announcing a new safety service

 
Lyft Carpooling Service Comes to New York City Same Day Uber Launches Theirs
Lyft Carpooling Service Comes to New York City Same Day Uber Launches Theirs

12 Dec 2014, 17:41 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / San Francisco-based American transportation network company Lyft has recently announced their carpooling service will be available in New York City starting December 12th. The same day, Uber also re...

 
Mellowcab Is the Electric Rickshaw of the Future
Mellowcab Is the Electric Rickshaw of the Future

24 Oct 2014, 17:51 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / More than 80 percent of all urban trips are shorter than three miles, which means we don’t really make the proper use of internal combustion. At least that is what the South African entreprene...

 
Europe's Taxi Drivers Go on Strike Over Uber App
Europe's Taxi Drivers Go on Strike Over Uber App

12 Jun 2014, 12:21 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / With fast smartphones and cheap wireless internet, more and more people are discovering the online world will allow them greater liberties than ever before. A recently launched app called Uber allow...

 
London Black Cabs Will Have Free WiFi in 2013
London Black Cabs Will Have Free WiFi in 2013

10 Dec 2012, 13:35 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / UK black cab company Eyetease has officially announced that starting next year, it will offer free WiFi internet in the back of its vehicles for customers. The service will provide you with 15 mi...

 
The Woman Taxi Driver
The Woman Taxi Driver

21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Madalina Iancu / Women taxi drivers in pink-rooftop-colored taxis. Ladies in mini-skirts driving you home. Calling for a taxi and the operator asking you to choose between a male or female taxi driver to take you to...

 
Opel Movano Cab Versions Up for Grabs
Opel Movano Cab Versions Up for Grabs

13 Jul 2010, 13:39 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / German manufacturer Opel announced today the availability of the cab version of the Movano model, including special conversions like box body, rear tipper, three-way tipper and dropside. Regardless ...

 
Lee Harvey Oswald's Getaway Cab, Sold for $35,750
Lee Harvey Oswald's Getaway Cab, Sold for $35,750

8 Jun 2010, 07:51 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Not much, we know, but after all, the man largely believed to have assassinated President Kennedy (we are a bit of conspiracy theorists ourselves), only used the 1962 Checker Marathon Taxicab for a ...

 
Mercedes All Electric Taxi Launched
Mercedes All Electric Taxi Launched

8 Feb 2010, 15:44 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / As London taxes are getting higher and higher, Eco City Vehicles PLC, a developer and supplier of eco-friendly commercial vehicles offers a solution: the company launched an all electric prototype o...

 
London Taxi Goes Polish
London Taxi Goes Polish

22 Jan 2010, 10:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The famous and very distinguishable London Taxi is moving further into eastern Europe, as it is gearing up for its unveiling in Warsaw. The vehicles will be operated by the local Polish Dufort Londo...

 
Banned from Driving, Shia LaBeouf Travels by Cab
Banned from Driving, Shia LaBeouf Travels by Cab

24 Feb 2009, 15:08 UTC · By: Madalina Iancu / When your driving license is suspended for at least one year, you have exactly four possibilities of transportation: walk, ride the bike, use public transportation or for the more wealthy ones, take...