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A pair of eld hit passed today since the New royalty Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) announced its wager for a container that would modify the taxis of New royalty City with something that meliorate fits the times. The TLC created a website for fictive types to accede ideas for the “Taxi of Tomorrow,” and digit of the more engrossing proposals to become in over the terminal pair of eld is something titled the UniCab.

The groundwork for NYC’s Taxi of Tomorrow is quite simple:

• Meets maximal country standards
• Superior traveller experience
• Superior utility richness and amenities
• Appropriate acquire toll and current fix and bushel costs
• Smaller environmental print (lower emissions and reinforced render economy)
• Smaller fleshly print (with more disposable inland room)
• Compliance with pertinent Americans with Disabilities Act requirements
• Iconic organisation that module refer the newborn taxi with New royalty City

Born discover of those guidelines, the UniCab looks null same a tralatitious taxi, divagation from the chromatic color. The UniCab features artefact for quaternary passengers, an automatic act for those with disabilities, an infotainment edifice that displays witting routes and attractions along the artefact and superficial range lines that earmark every of the passengers to intend a enthusiastic analyse of the historied municipality of New York. Though null more than a organisation describe correct now, the UniCab could modify our representation of taxis in the forthcoming and attain hailing a equipage the hip, naif abstract to do. Hat counsel to Zelda!

[Source: The Taxi of Tomorrow]

NYC seeks Taxi of Tomorrow; is UniCab the answer? originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 31 May 2010 16:54:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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