Hi-Tech Taxi Demonstration/Pataki on Open Spaces

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

Demonstration of an experimental high-tech taxi including GPS, information and information screens, fare tabulation, and credit card readers for passengers. Interviews about the new technology with a Traffic and Limousine Commission member. George Pataki speaks at the American Museum of Natural History about his work on the environment and open spaces, including the recent easement of 51,000 acres from Rayoneir in St. Lawrence County.


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