Taxi driver seems to me like a profession where ---> ehh, I dunno.
Jenny has a friend who is a taxi driver. Without getting into character issues and whether or not he is a douche - which is an interesting discussion actually - (he's a huge, fat, Ethiopian, racist/homophobe, religious simpleton) - but that aside, his experiences say to me that the profession of cab driver needs to go the way of the horse and buggy.
He was robbed and seriously beaten and hospitalized a couple years back. He is constantly having people attempting various weaselly drive-and-dash moves on him. Sometimes he grabs someone. Then he has to decide if it is worth his time to wait for the police or it's better to just let them go and concede the lost cash and get back to work. If it's a woman he often gets accused of sexual misconduct. If it's a guy with any level of fitness, they can just kick him in the nuts or whatever and walk away.
So there's that. And then there is the actual guy. If I had kids would I trust his skill and judgement to drive them around for two seconds, nevermind pay him 40 bucks to take them for a 19 minute ride (or whatever)?
No.
There has to be a better way.