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In 1640, in Paris, Nicolas Sauvage offered horse-drawn carriages and drivers for hire. Therefore the horses were there for transportation. This required zero education.
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The name taxicab was taken from the word taximeter. The taximeter was invented by the German inventor, Wilhelm Bruhn in 1891.
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Gottlieb Daimler built the world's first dedicated taxi in 1897 called the Daimler Victoria. The taxi came equipped with the newly invented taxi meter. On 16 June 1897, the Daimler Victoria taxi was delivered to Friedrich Greiner, a Stuttgart entrepreneur who started the world's first motorized taxi company.
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Gasoline-powered taxicabs began operating in Paris in 1899
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On September 13, 1899, the first American died in a car accident. That car was a Taxi, there were about one hundred taxis operating on New York's streets that year. Sixty-eight-year-old Henry Bliss was helping a friend from a street car when a taxi driver lost control and fatally hit Bliss. During this time you were required to have some education.
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The taxis were also used for things like emrgencie transportations in and during World War 1.
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In 1903 London aslo decided to make their taxi's gasoline powered.
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1907 is the time that New York also wanted to make their taxi's gas powered. There was alot of education the contributed to this as well.
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Manufacturing took place at Bristol Engineering in Bristol, Connecticut where the first domestically produced Taxicabs were built in 1908.
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On September 7, 1914, the Military Governor of Paris, Joseph Gallieni, gathered about six hundred taxicabs at Les Invalides in central Paris to carry soldiers to the front at Nanteuil-le Haudoin, fifty kilometers away.
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people living in the 1930s had to craft legislation to suit the taxi industry, because it presented scenarios that had never been an issue before. There were no labor practices in place specific to cabbies, which often led to their exploitation.
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The Haas Act of 1937 was subsequently signed by Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, which instated the need for official taxi licenses and the medallion system that New York still enforces to date. SO now there is much more education and training needed!
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The first major innovation after the invention of the taximeter occurred in the late 1940s, when two-way radios first appeared in taxicabs. Radios enabled taxicabs and dispatch offices to communicate and serve customers more efficiently than previous methods, such as using callboxes.
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The taxi was designed by Fred E. Moskovics who had worked at Daimler in the late 1890's.
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The next major innovation occurred in the 1980s, when computer assisted dispatching was first introduced.
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March 2006, newer modern taxicabs entered the service operated by various private companies. Taxicabs differ in other ways as well: London's black cabs have a large compartment beside the driver for storing bags, while many fleets of regular taxis also include wheelchair accessible taxicabs among their numbers.
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April 20, 2008, a "solar taxi tour" was launched that aimed to tour 15 countries in 18 months in a solar taxi that can reach speeds of 90 km/h with zero emission. The aim of the tour was to spread knowledge about environmental protection. Which by this time you could definitly tell that the required education has encreased!
