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Valid concern, tbh - but I guess (at least in London), you've got three/four tiers of cabs now - Black Cabs, Uber, Kabbee/TaxiCabit registered minicabs, and tiny local firms that aren't on those systems - I suspect it might be the last ones that either get squashed out or forced onto the new tech.

(Also - try getting a blac cab to take you back to Peckham from the centre of London basically any time after 6pm, nightmare. /sarfovdarivva)

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> (Also - try getting a blac cab to take you back to Peckham from the centre of London basically any time after 6pm

Yup. in fact I was standing outside a restaurant on the Strand at 1am recently. The doorman of the restaurant was trying to hail us and the group behind us a cab. Cab pulls up, hears destination, and drives off. They do this fast so you don't have time to grab their number and report them (which i encourage everyone to do should they refuse a fair).

Of course if the Taxi driver had realised it was for Alan Rickman and Zoe Wannamaker then perhaps he may have changed his mind.

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