As gadgets go, it’s hardly the sexiest. It’s a meter. For taxis. For motorcycle taxis, to be precise. And yet it might just be a $3 billion dollar idea. Paul Giles, President of World Moto, whose new ...

Next month, the motorcycle taxis that dart through the streets of Thailand will be getting a new feature for the first time in history: a meter. As an American doing business in Thailand, Paul Giles ...

WTOP’s Adam Tuss and Kristi King did what I wish I had been able to do today: they went out and rode in a bunch of cabs, both to see how many they found that had meters installed, and to get a few ...

Using a metered taxi is a nuisance in most countries: just try to find a cab on a rainy afternoon in downtown Manhattan or London. New e-hailing services like Uber have vowed to revolutionise the ...

An attempt by taxi drivers to preserve the District’s idiosyncratic system for calculating fares failed yesterday when a judge upheld the mayor’s order for all taxis to be equipped with meters. An ...

Annoying taxi TVs will likely have their plugs pulled. In all, roughly 4,000 of those detested back seat TVs will be shoved to the curb, if the Taxi and Limousine Commission approves a pilot program ...

Mayor Adrian Fenty Wednesday met a congressional mandate to junk the District’s Depression-era taxicab zone-fare system in favor of the time and distance meters used in every other major U.S. city.