All quiet on the taxi front

Taxi passengers in Shanghai will be pleased to hear that the Chinese authorities have ruled a number of the TV screens fitted to the back of seats inside the vehicles to be unsafe in accidents. Some of the screens did pass safety tests sadly. But many of the taxi firms are now following a government requirement to remove failed screens from the vehicles. This means taxi passengers stuck in the city’s frequent traffic jams will no longer have to endure listening to the same adverts playing over, and over, an
August 15, 2013 Read time: 1 min
Taxi passengers in Shanghai will be pleased to hear that the Chinese authorities have ruled a number of the TV screens fitted to the back of seats inside the vehicles to be unsafe in accidents. Some of the screens did pass safety tests sadly. But many of the taxi firms are now following a government requirement to remove failed screens from the vehicles. This means taxi passengers stuck in the city’s frequent traffic jams will no longer have to endure listening to the same adverts playing over, and over, and over, and over again. The Shanghai Transport and Port Administration will no doubt win rapturous (and perhaps unexpected) applause from the city’s taxi passengers for this latest ruling.

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