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 NEW YORK (AP) - The Taxi and Limousine Commission approved a plan Thursday to install touch-screen monitors in all 13,000 city cabs that will allow riders to pay by credit card, check on news stories, map out where the cab is going and find information about eateries and bars.
The vote to require the new technology came over the objections of some drivers, who said it would be costly and would allow officials to check up on them.
"There's no need to rush this foolishness, this folly," said Bill Lindauer, a leader of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, a drivers' advocacy group that says it has more than 7,000 members. "This is a grandiose, totalitarian technology trampling on drivers' and passengers' privacy rights."
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