New York’s Yellow Cab Riders to Help Choose ‘Taxi of Tomorrow’
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New York’s “Taxi of Tomorrow” may be chosen with input from among the 600,000 riders who use yellow cabs daily in the most-populous U.S. city, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.
Ford Motor Co., Nissan Motor Co. and Karsan Otomotiv Sanayi & Ticaret AS of Turkey were named as finalists in a competition to design a new model for the city’s 13,237 taxi cabs. The mayor said he would ask each automaker to give the city its best offer within a month, after which a decision will be made whether to designate one as the sole supplier for the fleet.