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Originally Posted by pylon
Cab Driver = weaves all over the road has zero awareness of their surroundings, couldn't even get a GDL license with their skills.
How is it, that people that log a couple hundred thousand KMS a year behind the wheel of an automobile, are some of the worst drivers on the road?
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Ehhh, you could argue that a cab driver's job is to get their passengers from point A to point B as quickly as possible, so technically a good 'cab driver' and a bad driver are not mutually exclusive so long as the passenger gets where they're going quickly.
We were at the Cowboys Casino a couple months ago and a concert was getting out from the Saddledome. Cabs were at a premium, and we wanted to go from the casino to 10 Ave @ 7 Street SW. This one cabbie was sitting there waiting for his pickup, and we asked if he would take us. He said he had a fare he was supposed to pick-up, however for $30 cash he would get us there faster than any cab driver on the planet (so he could still grab his assigned fare). We said what the hell and agreed.
Two minutes. Two minutes door-to-door in thick-ass post-Dome event traffic. This guy cut through parking lots (including the barricaded one on 12 Ave), back lanes, slalomed in and out of the parked car lane and between traffic. The guy was basically The Hire:
If the yardstick is "obeys the rules of the road", yeah, crap driver. If the yardstick is "got me where I was going fast and didn't maim or kill me", five stars.