I had similar at Newcastle airport - I wanted to go to Newcastle Falcon's rugby ground about three miles away. The Cab rank driver did take me because, he didn't actually ask 'where to?' until we'd loaded my stuff and pulled away, but he was seriously pissed off, and made sure I knew it. I...
Almost certainly that's true.
However, if they were to tighten that up, the technology / system has to be a safety benefit, over the complete anonymity of a black cab journey.
I'm not disputing the assault claims / stats, but I genuinely don't understand them.
If a teenage girl on her own needs to get home at 3am, from a club, she has two options:
The black cab model involves her waving down a cab, with an unknown driver (in theory, but not always the person the cab...