Obviously being a cabbie in London is a much more prestigious and better paying line of work than in the cities of the USA. When I was young, I drove a cab company owned ambulance in a fair sized city. Night shift. Our dispatcher was also the cab dispatcher. I got to know most of the cab drivers. They were a sketchy bunch of very colorful dudes. To get the "badge" was to pay a fee at City Hall. No test required. This was before GPS. Now I believe most just use Uber or Lyft.
As a passenger I'd actually feel uncomfortable were the cabbie not using sat nav, because it's using real time data and algorithms to find an optimal route. There are occasions where knowing you can drive through a car park and skip the lights might help...but I'd definitely be concerned someone not using sat nav in this day and age might be driving a longer route to put my bill up! Rightly or wrongly I'd notice no sat nav was being used and occasionally I'll open up google maps myself to get a feel for whether we're going an optimal route. I do understand the knowledge used to be how we would have confidence an optimal route was being taken...these days sat nav renders it rather redundant.
Obviously being a cabbie in London is a much more prestigious and better paying line of work than in the cities of the USA. When I was young, I drove a cab company owned ambulance in a fair sized city. Night shift. Our dispatcher was also the cab dispatcher. I got to know most of the cab drivers. They were a sketchy bunch of very colorful dudes. To get the "badge" was to pay a fee at City Hall. No test required. This was before GPS. Now I believe most just use Uber or Lyft.
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As a passenger I'd actually feel uncomfortable were the cabbie not using sat nav, because it's using real time data and algorithms to find an optimal route. There are occasions where knowing you can drive through a car park and skip the lights might help...but I'd definitely be concerned someone not using sat nav in this day and age might be driving a longer route to put my bill up! Rightly or wrongly I'd notice no sat nav was being used and occasionally I'll open up google maps myself to get a feel for whether we're going an optimal route. I do understand the knowledge used to be how we would have confidence an optimal route was being taken...these days sat nav renders it rather redundant.
Very interesting!
Capital of Malaysia 🇲🇾 have two Kuala Lumpur & Kota Kinabalu
Indonesia 🇮🇩 have two also Jakarta & Nusantara
Obsolete but necessary for mind control.
Nothing new here this isxwhat every body did before gps