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humaxf1

I'm sure others have noticed this...taxi drivers are now PUSHING their vehicles with their hand in the window to steer when moving up the rank queue. I first noticed this outside the Gresham Hotel on O'Connell Street.

C'mon "bud"...pushing your car in this day & age...are they that stingy to save fuel LOL.

spank_inferno

Saves on the fuel to ignite the engine

Helps prolong the starter motor/ignition.

Moving a car a couple of feet requires little effort...

Whats wrong with this.

Rabies

/moved to the really bad attempt at humour forum

seamus

I sometimes do this if I only need to move my car a few feet. Seems ridiculous to turn on the engine just to roll it forward and then switch it off again.

loobylou

Taxi drivers always did this back in the seventies/eighties. Economically we seem to have gone back there too.

seamus

seamus wrote: »

I sometimes do this if I only need to move my car a few feet. Seems ridiculous to turn on the engine just to roll it forward and then switch it off again.

i have never heard of this.. maybe for a taxi driver but for a regular person seems a bit odd.

Red Alert

I always do that when moving the car in the driveway. Though you should sit in, turn the key to '2' and have your foot ready on the brake.

biggus

a Prius would solve this problem for them.

Run_to_da_hills

Taxi drivers are not the only ones pushing their vehicles, this photo was captured yesterday of a motorcyclist pushing his bike around the recently opened bus corridor on Collage Green to avoid prosecution.

http://www.biker.ie/gallery/albums/userpics/11972/Push_It.jpg

seamus

Deleted User wrote: »

i have never heard of this.. maybe for a taxi driver but for a regular person seems a bit odd.

In my head, the effort required to release the handbrake and roll the car forward by six feet is less than the effort required to sit in and drive it thos six feet.

Pompey Magnus

The future of Irish taxis?