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Sorry Maurice, I gave up spending much time on your posts since the the old days of the Taxi Forums UK.

You said:

"Most drivers I know on a street hiring do not engage the meter until he / she has helped the passenger into the cab and the flag drop would be £2. "

So only a minority of drivers that you know would engage the meter, so is that representative of all the others or not?

If you don't know, why are you telling us about a handful of drivers when the thread was about London drivers generally?

Assuming the ones that you know are more charitable than the majority you don't know, this presumably means that MOST of the ones that you don't know could engage the meter beforehand?

No wriggling with me Maurice, if I'm wrong, as I often am, I say so, if not, I don't.

Dusty

The plan is simple.

Acknowledge what the major spenders on cabs in London want.

And give it to them.

The spenders, the major corporates.

What they want, a combination of Hacks, PH's and Executive Cars.

They can at present go out and buy each individually, but then they end up with duplication and rocketing costs.

Yes you might make a million and that is what the Chairman of RTL is trying to do off the backs of his members.

This scheme wouldn't benfit the working Hackney drivers though far from it. And as this is a TAXI list I would have thought that most would oppose your scheme.

Claude

Yes you might make a million and that is what the Chairman of RTL is trying to do off the backs of his members.

This scheme wouldn't benfit the working Hackney drivers though far from it. And as this is a TAXI list I would have thought that most would oppose your scheme.

Claude

It's not Forfar Ford For The Thrifty is it Jock?

Claude

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>>Assuming the ones that you know are more charitable than the majority you don't know, this presumably means that MOST of the ones that you don't know could engage the meter beforehand?<<

Wrong and wrong you can't assume that. I say again you use Statisical Sampling Theory (Small Sample Inferential Statistics) to extrapolate to the whole population."

I say again, you do not have to use the whole population to get an accurate outcome.

So if 28 out of the 30 I know do as I suggest that would translate to a very large percentage of the whole.

Well I was just positing a hypothetical scenario, hence my use of the word 'could' rather than 'do'.

There may not be a statistical basis for this, but I was just assuming that the cabbies you know are more altruistic than the average Maurice.

Anyway, you've actually quantified it - 28 out of 30 - which obviously changes things - even with a small sample and (consequently) a large possible error, your assertion was not unreasonable.

When you said most, I was assuming that you might only mean 16 out of the thirty, which wouldn't have extrapolated with sufficient certainty(?)

Does this mean we agree?

Dusty

And there is the hub of the problem.

Narrow minded folk letting personal vendettas getting in the way of making money by giving the customer what they want.

You keep on fiddling while the empire burns around you Maurice, sorry Claude. Keep sending the assasins out to kill those who are trying to put out the flames.

Yes you might make a million and that is what the Chairman of RTL is trying to do off the backs of his members.
Claude

I'm browsing this thread in the bizarre and, seemingly, foundless belief that it had something to do with the title, i.e. Skoda.

I won't be back.

Bunch of old ar*e.