的士司机斗法打车APP禁令 - Francis Hsu

Cabbies find ways around no app rule By Ma Yue | March 2, 2014, Sunday | SHANGHAI taxi drivers are keeping “for hire” signs switched off and claiming that customers are their friends in order to get round a ban on third-party booking apps. Yesterday marked the first day of a ban on city cabbies taking fares through apps at rush hour, but as Saturday is not a working day, demand was lower in any case. A city traffic authority notice prohibits drivers from taking fares via booking apps between 7:30am and 9:30am and 4:30pm and 6:30pm every day. This is to ease difficulties hailing a cab in the street and address safety concerns about cabbies’ being distracted by cellphone apps while driving. However, some drivers were flouting the ban yesterday. A member of the public, surnamed Ye, said he first tried without success to book a cab through the Didi Taxi app at 8:40am in Yangpu District. But when he switched to the Kuaidi T...