&gt; Who cares about knowledge of city streets?<p>Funny story: for a while in SF, the taxi union (?) was running ads that were thinly veiled attacks on Uber&#x2F;Lyft. One of them showed a smiling taxi driver with the caption &quot;would you rather have a driver who knows the city by heart or by GPS?&quot; I found it particularly hilarious because the answer, for me at least, is GPS with live traffic information. Just another example of how out of touch the taxi companies are.