European taxi- e-Learning

This is our weekend-‘update’ summarises of October, 10. This time i.a.: taxistars, New Mercedes e-Class, Robot Taxi in Tokyo…

International News

European taxi training: The launch of the eLearning software ‘Taxistars’ was held in Athens. It is available free of charge online or via app.

http://www.traveldailynews.com/news/article/68341/taxistars-to-boost-service-quality

Find out more next week in the print edition of Taxi Times.

Quote of the day

“This new online learning platform will boost safety and service quality in taxi fleets across Europe and beyond.”

Patrick Philipp, Head of the IRU-Academy

Automobile news

New Mercedes E-class: Although the ‘W 213’ will not be out until 2016, there are already a lot of photos and information on the Internet. One example.

https://www.carwow.co.uk/news/New-Mercedes-E-Class-price-specs-and-release-date-1882

Autonomous drive

Robot taxi: The first autonomous taxi service is launching near Tokyo in 2016. Passengers will be able to use the autonomous taxi along a route three kilometres long.

http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2015/10/01/robocab-driverless-taxi-experiment-to-start-in-japan/

Our last words

Uber driver beaten up: If you knowingly break the law, you are bound to provoke the honest people you have deceived. Nevertheless, people should not take the law into their own hands, as recently happened in Australia.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/war-on-uber-escalates-to-physical-violence/