Taxi idea before the car?
Before the invention of the car, rent a car for the common practice is in place. In 1640, in Paris, Nicolas sauvage offers horse-drawn carriage and driver for hire. In 1635, the Hackney Carriage Act was first passed laws to control the horse-drawn carriage for hire in the UK.
taximeter
The name is taken from the word taxi meter. The meter is a device that measures the distance or travel time of vehicles, and allow the tariff to be determined accurately. The meter was created by German inventor, Wilhelm Bruhn in 1891.
Daimler Victoria
Gottlieb Daimler was the first taxi company in the world in 1897 in the form of a special taxi called Daimler Victoria. Taxi cabs come equipped with a newly created meter. On June 16, 1897 Daimler Victoria taxi sent to Friedrich Greiner, a Stuttgart entrepreneur who started the world's first motorized taxi company.
First Taxi Accident
On 13 September 1899, the first American to die in car accidents. The car is a taxi, there are about a hundred taxis operating on the streets of New York that year. Sixty-eight years of Henry Bliss was helping a friend from a street car when a taxi driver lost control and hit a fatal Bliss.
The first yellow taxi
Taxi company owner, Harry Allen was the first to have a yellow taxi cab Allen was painted yellow to stand out. gan thanks to the idea now is identical to the yellow cab
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