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Article: City cabbies say technology is too taxing.
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- September 2, 2007
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Byline: Joseph A. Slobodzian
Sep. 2--Cherry Hill is about eight miles from Center City as the crow flies, nine miles according to most computer mapping software, and 269 miles if you're a Philadelphia cabbie.
At least that's what the global positioning system, or GPS, used by the city's 1,600 medallion cab drivers, read.
As for the route suggested by the GPS during a cab ride Thursday, well, 269 miles may not have been far off. As it continuously recalibrated the route, the GPS's serene, modulated female voice directed the driver near the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, under the bridge, around the bridge, but never over the bridge.
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