Uber has extended a hand to London’s black cab drivers by offering to let them use the taxi service embedded in its platform for free for a year. Jumping before it might be pushed into another legal battle with London’s cabbies, the company has now offered to compromise with cabbies by letting them use its app for getting more rides. Without any irony, within the announcement, Uber has criticized the time it takes to pass ‘The Knowledge’ black cab test when GPS apps exist, as well as the £40,000 cost of buying a new, fully disabled-accessible cab. These are just two things that cabbies…
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