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Cab Driver Etiquette: When The Music Is TOO LOUD
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Jen Carlson
Published Mar 23, 2012
Modified Mar 23, 2012
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Taxi TV is ear-shattering enough but at least there's an easily accessible "off" button. Sometimes, however, your driver may provide the entertainment. As part of the Taxicab Rider Bill of Rights, passengers have a right to control the volume of music—it states you have the right to "a noise free trip: no horn honking or radio." But, you know, it happens... and sometimes (like when alcohol is involved, mostly) it can even be sort of fun to whip through the city streets with a stranger behind the wheel while the music is turned up to 11. But not all the time. One man took this below video from the back seat of a cab this week to document the volume of the music the cab driver was playing—turns out you can go past 11 on the volume control!
There's only a handful of things to do in this case ("hey, can you turn the music down?"), and apparently one option is to document it. However, it was around 1 a.m., so maybe the music was keeping the driver awake!
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Jen Carlson
Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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