You can never be sure of blood lineage in Japan, families will adopt high performing employees/management and this is seen as the norm over there and not warrant highlighting. Virtually all adoptions in Japan are these adult males. Funny old world...
What what the problem?
Everything about him was off
Like what? Genuine question as I’m sure the next round of deliveries of Y, I’ll have to start sourcing glass again.
Vagueness, as if he was picking a price out of nowhere, didn’t appear to be at all prepared to take calls about his add
do you know the guy ? , maybe my perception was entirely off and i caught him on a bad day?
Don’t know him from Adam. After the last round of deliveries, he’s the only one left advertising the glass.
Im sure he can call the shots on prices as I can’t find anyone else doing it either.
It’s either use him or buy a Model 3.
Or persuade the NTA to drop their stupid rule
That would be welcomed in fairness.
It makes no sense, you can have dark windows on a Limo but not on any other PSV yet they're all doing the same job, ferrying Muppets from point A to point B and hopefully getting paid.
Like I said earlier, it’s a “ seen to be doing something “ policy which of course is a frequent feature with dopey politicians
no one notices what’s happening in the back of a moving vehicle so clear or tinted has no difference in terms of saving someone, you might as well ban SPSV vehicles all together if preventing the risk of a predatory operator is the only priority
The cynic in me says that might be more down to the NTA being afraid of some of the limo owners
The Monk being a prime example
Nah, the NTA is largely a faceless organisation. Most of, if not all your dealings with them are online or over the phone. I’ve never been in their offices in near 20 years of having a PSV Licence.
NTA also just process the admin side, the Garda still have to to do the vetting once you pass the test.
It was brought in as a direct consequence of an incident a few years back where women were locked in the back of a taxi.
Yep , no politician or civil servant wants to be seen to ignore women’s safety , even that means doing serious harm to the goal of increasing public transport services , like I said earlier, the only way to completely eradicate all and any threat to female paying passengers is to ban SPSV altogether
the tinted windows rule does next to nothing to remove passenger risk
I didn't think they actually had offices... I've only ever dealt with them when I'm required to phone to give them 250 to renew my PSV, such an outdated archaic system it's unbelievable.
I kinda agree with that reasoning then, there's been a few horror stories about women getting raped by taxi drivers over the years
It's the vast minority of drivers but I can understand any woman being cautious about getting into a taxi alone at night
Can't say I've heard any, I couldn't see tinted windows stopping anyone. Are limo's presumed to be safer?
I suppose when it comes to women, a limo is more likely to be used by a group of them for a hen or the like. Not a lone person getting home from work at night.
What percentage of imprisoned women do you think might be freed because the rear window glass is clear rather than dark ?
who looks into the rear part of a car when it’s moving at speed?
the equivalent of gesture politics
Well it's kind of hard to get statistics on a non occurrence, but in general increased likelihood of getting caught in the act is an effective deterrent
We could try surveying taxi drivers to ask if they'd be more likely to imprison a passenger if the windows were tinted, however I suspect the number of yes responses may be extremely low 😉
Regardless of what we think, the NTA clearly thinks it's a significant enough issue to warrant a response
Despite what we all think, regulators don't operate in a vacuum and there's usually some thought process behind their actions
Well thanks for the horrifying trip into Google
Here's one case
Another
And another
And let's not forget this lad
Okay the last one was a bit of a joke
Would tinted or non tinted windows have made a difference? I can't really answer that for sure, certainly in the most recent case they might not have given it happened last year and that regulation has been around for a while
But as I said, the NTA seems to think it'll discouage it
Why are limo's exempt? I guess people tend to get them in groups, plus you have to book a limo so there's a very easy paper trail to follow
Anyway, I'm going to look up some videos of kittens playing to cheer myself up after reading those horror stories of human depravity 😞
Regulators make policy changes based on what politicians tell them needs doing in order to assuage the population , media , panic merchants , if those wrongheaded policies hobble entrepreneurs, so Beit , typical civil style mentality
it reminds me of a Simpsons episode where a short segment at the start involves a bear wandering into Springfield , a bunch of the townspeople ( including Homer ) engage in scaremongering
after something particularly silly , Lisa says
“
that’s rather specious reasoning Dad , I might as well say placing this rock outside our house will keep away bears “
homer replies “ Lisa I’d like to buy you’re rock “
it’s a seen to be doing something gesture politics style rule , impossible to prove it won’t help but upon objective analysis, is obvious it makes a minuscule difference in terms of preventing a kidnapping or whatever you call it, if female passengers are in great danger of falling victim to rapist SPSV operators, the only obvious thing to do is make SPSV illegal, anything else is window dressing ( pardon the pun)
Well you're free to contact the NTA and pitch your ideas to them 😉
Thinking outside the box and slightly OT but what about a requirement for every taxi to be fitted with a (tamper proof) panic button in the rear passenger compartment? Upon pressing the button, it sends out a ping to emergency services with gps based location data.
It would be linked to the taxi meter and light so if the button was disabled/tampered with, it would not allow the meter to function or even the taxi sign light to illuminate.
Two from N.I. I fail to see how tinted windows would have changed anything. Taking a driver's PSV before being convicted of anything is surely unlawful no? I wonder how it panned out?
Emasculation as a requirement for a license, safer for boys and girls, plus I can always laugh at taxi drivers in Rome or turkey, when they are taking me for a ride, not the sore behind type but the pocket rape variety.
Honestly I think its blown out of proportion, like a guy said to me the other day about asylum seekers and all the rapists going to be at one hotel, how many rapists are in other countries and are all of them in one bloody hotel.
Already did
That’s actually not a bad idea
Until drunks start hitting it before they run away.
yeah, I half thought about that... going forwards when you get into a taxi, you maybe need to verify your identity in some way with a smart phone...
or the panic button somehow records the presence of a smart device being inside the car, so any runaways can be tracked...
Unauthorised use of the panic button, and you get a €100 fine
Maybe a block on your card or pay in advance if using cash?
I've been of the opinion that private cars shouldn't be used as taxis without adaption
Screens between driver and passengers, CCTV linked to the meter so it can't be bypassed and card payment machines should all be required
Interior locks on the rear doors should be disabled to prevent passengers from being trapped. As I said, prepayment or providing a card should become the standard so running off without paying is impossible
I suspect my views wouldn't gain popularity among taxi drivers or the NTA, but it seems to work in other countries and it would probably make life easier for them as well in the long run
