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How skilled are London taxi drivers at learning routes through unfamiliar towns?
- vibragiel 16y agoI can't forget that time when a London taxi driver made a killing with me by in an unexpected city tour. I took a taxi at Victoria Station and told the driver to take me to Kennington tube station. I'm not a native English speaker, and the guy understood Canning Town, which is located approximately at the other side of the city, so I had to point it out on his map and cross the city again.
- gommm 16y agoOnce the same happened to me in Shanghai, but the Taxi driver insisted it was his mistake for not understanding my bad pronunciation and stopped the counter...