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I’ve been to London a lot over the years and I’ve noticed black cabs have changed the last couple years. It used to always be a native Londoner who passed the k
by nemo44x 1y ago
I’ve been to London a lot over the years and I’ve noticed black cabs have changed the last couple years. It used to always be a native Londoner who passed the knowledge and got access to driving black cab. But recently I’ve had some black cabs with immigrants - this would never be the case historically. So I think they all see the writing on the wall here.
- mschild 1y agoOr, like a lot of trade jobs, it simply isn't attractive to a lot of native folks because of the pay and working hours.
- nemo44x 1y agoWell it was a really hard job to get for decades. Had to know the right people. Was lucrative.
- hiddencost 1y agoRacism
- badgersnake 1y ago> passed the knowledge That is still the criteria.
- nemo44x 1y agoI think they’ve really let up on it recently. Have had a few rides where the driver was clueless and had to punch it into a GPS. Never happened to me previously.
- badgersnake 1y agoIf you think the driver is not who they are supposed to be, complain to the carriage office.
- maroon_unperson 1y agoThe cab drivers are still true londoners who have passed the knowledge. What has changed is how acceptable it is to be racist on hacker news and conflate native-londoner with whiteness. Or to conflate being being a true londoner with this xenophobic concept of nativeness. So many of us londoners are non-white with London native parents who are non-white and in London that doesn't get questioned. You can't imagine how much it hurts to have outsiders come and try and tell us we are different and don't belong just because of our skin colour.
- tim333 1y agoThere are a lot more immigrants here than there used to be in general. I don't think changes to black cabs are anything to do with Waymo. Uber has had an effect though.