ONE of Birmingham biggest taxi firms is moving up a gear by becoming one of the first black cab businesses in Britain to use chip and pin machines in their vehicles.

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Yellow cabs in New York are already under a 2012 deadline for going green. Black town cars serve mostly corporate clients and make 2 percent of the city’s transport-related emissions. Hybrids will cut that in half. …

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NYs Black Cabs Go Green Good news for New Yorkers. And Earthers. New York City set new fuel emissions standards for the city’s 10000 black taxis Wednesday. Town car owners must switch to hybrid tech within 5 years. …

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Mayor Bloomberg has announced a plan that will require better fuel efficiency for city’s TLC-run black cars; the change is part of the broader PlaNYC initiative and follows in the tread marks of the new hybrid yellow cabs. …

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“While yellow cabs are constantly on the move, black cabs actually spend a decent amount of time just sitting and waiting for their client to come out” with their engines idling, Bloomberg said at a news conference. …

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Raymond Davidson, secretary of the Edinburgh Taxi Association, said: “I think the councillors realise that it is a different world now to when the black cabs were first introduced. The roads have changed, people’s attitudes and travel …

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Licensed black cabs are only allowed to pick passengers up off the street without a pre-arranged booking. Transport bosses say not everyone knows that the practice is against the law and it increases the risk of cab-related sexual …

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The move — part of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s plan to decrease the city’s carbon emissions by 30 percent by 2030 — comes less than a year after Bloomberg announced the city’s 13000 yellow taxi cabs will go hybrid by 2012. Black town …

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Did you know that when you become an expert in a specific domain, the areas in your brain that deal with this type of skill will grow?For instance, London taxi drivers have a larger hippocampus (in the posterior region) than London bus …

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