What's Your Ideal Cab?
by Ryan Vlastelica
Omar
Hailed at: Grand Central
Hails from: Turkey
Can I have a flying car? I want a flying car. An ideal thing would be to have a flying car or a monster truck or something that lets you get around the traffic in the city. Actually, a while ago I thought about starting a motorcycle cab company, since bikes can get around traffic fairly easily. I even tried it once, but no one wanted to get on a bike with a stranger.
Abe
Hailed at: Midtown
Hails from: Portland
It should be an electric car, or at least a hybrid. It shouldn't cost gas money or pollute. Ideally, it would have some kind of fabric on the seats that doesn't get stained, since a lot of cabs get gross after a while with people spilling stuff on them. A cab is dirtier after a year than your car would be after ten. It's gross. So none of that. As for what it looks on the outside? I don't care, really. I guess you have to keep the yellow though.
Calvin
Hailed at:Soho
Hails from: Brooklyn
I like the checkered cabs, those were iconic. I say do the yellow and black checkers. Say, do you know why cabs are yellow? Because that's the easiest color to see from a distance. Inside, I would prefer to lose those damn TV set things, but mostly I don't much care what it's like on the inside. The thing that would make it really ideal is a seat that doesn't wreck my ass to sit on for ten-hour shifts.
Muhammad
Hailed at:Hell's Kitchen
Hails from:Pakistan
Ideal for me would be cabs that are comfortable, safe, get good mileage and you don't need to take them to the mechanic all the time. I don't care for the yellow color, but that's how people know it's a cab. I think that if you had a yellow car and you weren't a taxi driver, people would always be trying to flag you down.
